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Just to clarify, those five races that you listed were the five SL races that she skied on the World Cup this year, & the margin of victory. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Iski Stowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Ski racing magazine just published an article on Mikaela Shiffrin's junior > race career. Mikaela just turned 21. Unfortunately, this article is > behind a pay wall. There are some interesting stats in the article: > > > At 21 years of age she has amassed 19 World Cup slalom wins, certainly the > fastest to accomplish that. It’s pretty easy to check, because there are > just six people ahead of her on the all-time slalom win list. > > it also mentioned some of her race margins this year. > > Stenmark was 23. Tomba was 27. Schild was 28 and Schneider was 27. Hess > was 24. Kostelic, also 24. So yes, we can say without fear of > contradiction, that Shiffrin, as a junior, was “the best that ever was.” > > - Aspen 1st race: 3.07 seconds > - Aspen 2nd race: 2.65 seconds > - Crans Montana (first race post-injury): 0.45 of a second > - Jasna: 2.36 seconds > - Moritz: 2.03 seconds > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is > brought to you by the University of Vermont. > > To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html