Camille Rast wins Kranjska Gora slalom, snaps Mikaela Shiffrin’s historic streak

To be the lady, you’ve bought to beat the lady. On Sunday, the Queen of Slalom, the Gate Whisperer, the lady, Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) appeared effectively on her approach to a seventh-consecutive slalom race victory. Camille Rast (SUI) had different plans.

The burgeoning Swiss celebrity threw down a second run for the ages, narrowly eclipsing Shiffrin’s time to win in dramatic vogue (1:40.20) and sweep the weekend’s races. 

Previous to Sunday, Shiffrin (+0.14) was unbeaten in slalom in the course of the 2025-26 World Cup season. The runner-up end was her “worst” within the self-discipline since March of final yr. 

“I don’t imagine it’s potential to win each race within the season with the competitors degree,” she mentioned. “Really, I hope it wouldn’t be potential. However nonetheless, I wished to present it my finest shot.

“How I noticed Camille ski the primary run, I needed to go 120% to be able to have an opportunity. I used to be pushing so onerous, I felt like I used to be flying. I used to be actually happy with my run. I used to be simply in awe of Cami.”

The triumph for Rast marked her second in a career-defining — at the least, thus far — 24 hours. On Saturday, the 26-year-old gained an impressed large slalom, dedicating the performance to those that misplaced family members within the devastating Crans Montana fireplace that killed 40 and injured 125 on New 12 months’s Eve. Rast grew up 35 minutes from the ski resort.

Amazingly, she didn’t show any form of emotional exhaustion, coming again the subsequent day to show to the world’s finest why she is the reigning world champion.

“I gave all the pieces I had this weekend,” a spent Rast remarked post-race. “Double on the identical weekend is sort of wonderful. I’m so joyful.”

The achievement even is extra spectacular when contemplating that Sunday’s script felt strikingly acquainted: Shiffrin posts an elite Run 1 time and completely annihilates the competitors in a nearly-flawless Run 2, on this case, going up by a whopping 1.69 seconds. In her first 4 slalom races of the season, her margin of victory was 1.50 seconds. An unphased, undeterred Rast ripped the pen out of her opponent’s palms and wrote her personal conclusion to the story — one which noticed her blaze down the piste and stand tall atop the rostrum.

It was Rast’s fifth podium end in a row and sixth in 11 begins this Cup marketing campaign. With Lara Colturi (ALB) DNF’ing, Rast climbed into second place within the slalom factors standings and remained second general (behind Shiffrin). The final time she positioned outdoors the highest 5 in a race, folks had but to carve their Thanksgiving turkeys.

Wendy Holdener (SUI) rounded out the rostrum, putting third (+1.83) and proudly representing Switzerland in her personal proper.

Paula Moltzan (USA) turned in one other stellar efficiency, barely lacking the rostrum and claiming the wood spoon (+1.97). It was a powerful bounce-back weekend for Moltzan, who tallied second and fourth in Kranjska Gora after posting two DNFs in Semmering that included a crash. Even with a sore again, Moltzan continued to point out her toughness, placing collectively a principally error-free pair of runs. 

Given her proficiency in each large slalom (two podium finishes) and slalom (two wood spoons) this season, one has to assume the 31-year-old is on the verge of qualifying for her second Winter Olympic Video games.

For the second-straight day, the People had two racers end within the prime 5 and 4 within the prime 20. AJ Damage got here in thirteenth, Nina O’Brien nineteenth and Elisabeth Bocock thirtieth. For Bocock, it was the primary slalom factors of her profession.

Ladies’s World Cup motion returns subsequent weekend on Peacock with a downhill Saturday (5:15 a.m. ET) and super-G Sunday (5:45 a.m. ET). A red-hot Lindsey Vonn (USA), Breezy Johnson (USA) and extra are anticipated to begin.