Lindsey Vonn or Mikaela Shiffrin?
Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn are the most busy female ski racers of the 21st century. — Credit: TeamUSA News

Two of the biggest names in ski racing history, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin are constantly compared to meet who really is the best female ski racer of the 21st century. In the light of Lindsey Vonn'due south retirement a year ago, today we're comparing their careers to make up one's mind once and for all, who really is the greatest skier. Exit a comment supporting who you recollect deserves the almost hype!

Is Mikaela Shiffrin the best ski racer?
Mikaela Shiffrin was the most dominant skier of 2019 with 17 World Cup wins. — Credit: Sports Illustrated, Erick W. Rasco

Background:

Vonn started competing in 2000 at age 16 and skied for nineteen seasons before retiring at historic period 34 in 2019 due to the many catastrophic injuries she sustained during her career. Nearly of Vonn's successes were in downhill which was her primary event, although she too won in many of the other events.

Shiffrin had her first race in 2011 when she was 15 years old and now at 25 she even so has many seasons ahead of her. Slalom is Shiffrin'south primary effect; however, she has won in every other effect as well.

Lindsey Vonn won Gold at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Lindsey Vonn at the 2010 Winter Olympics after winning Golden in downhill ski racing. — Credit: US Magazine, Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

Olympic Results:

Vonn has competed in 4 different Olympic Games: 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2018. She did not compete in 2014 due to injuries. She received a Gilded (downhill) and a Statuary medal (super Grand) in 2010 and a Statuary medal (downhill) in 2018.

Shiffrin's first Olympics was in 2014 when she took habitation Gold in slalom, and then in 2018, she won gold in giant slalom and silverish in combined. So far she has never had an Olympic Games where she did not take home a Golden medal, and hopefully, she has more to come.

Is Mikaela Shiffrin better than Lindsey Vonn?
Mikaela Shiffrin currently holds the nearly slalom wins of whatsoever ski racer in history. — Unofficial Networks

FIS World Cup Results:

At the fourth dimension of her retirement, Vonn had won a total of 82 World Cup races over her career, only 4 curt of Ingemar Stenmark'due south ultimate tape of 86 wins. Vonn aimed to intermission Stenmark's tape before retiring, but she was forced to listen to her torso and finish pushing through injuries. Vonn has won a total of 8 World Championship Medals; including 2 Golds in downhill and super G in 2009.

Currently, Shiffrin has 66 World Cup wins to her name, 43 of which are in slalom, the most of whatever athlete in history. She also has 7 Earth Championship Medals, five of which are Golds, iv in slalom and 1 in super G.

Will Lindsey Vonn always be the most famous female ski racer?
Lindsey Vonn's 82 Earth Cup wins volition always hold a place in history as some other achievement in her incredible career. — Credit: Sporting News, Getty Images

Records Set:

Vonn was the first American woman to win a Golden medal in downhill ski racing at the 2010 Olympics. In addition, Vonn is one of only 2 women to have iv overall World Cup championship titles. Other than Ingemar Stenmark's 86 World Cup wins, Vonn has the most World Cup wins of any male or female person ski racer. For years, she has been considered the most successful ski racer because of her aggressive skiing technique that sets her apart from other racers, but also fabricated her more prone to injuries.

In the 9 years she has been competing and so far, Shiffrin has won 66 World Loving cup races, and she was the youngest racer to always win 50. She is the only athlete in history to win races in all half-dozen ski racing events and she holds the most slalom wins of whatsoever athlete. Last year, Shiffrin broke the record for most Earth Cup wins in a single season, taking abode 17, cracking the previous record of xiv.  Currently, she is the 3 time reigning overall Globe Cup champion and the 4-time slalom world champion.

Mikaela Shiffrin vs Lindsey Vonn
Is Shiffrin the new Vonn? Or was Vonn ever but laying the route for Shiffrin to smash by her? — Credit: The Wall Street Journal

Terminal Thoughts:

Manifestly, both Vonn and Shiffrin are incredible skiers who deserve all of the hype and dearest that their fans shower them with. Vonn has forever been known as the indicate figure in the ski racing industry, simply after smashing the record for most wins in a single season last yr, Shiffrin'southward following likewise exploded as she was crowned the "winningest skier of 2019" and perhaps for many seasons to come. Vonn's retirement prompted an outpouring of support for her and her incredible achievements over her career, only Shiffrin's career is nevertheless standing and she is likely to have many more than seasons of success to come.

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Who do you think is the best female person ski racer? Lindsey Vonn gear up the standard for excellence and had xix years of incredible tape-breaking racing, only Mikaela Shiffrin is catching up fast and still has more time to grow and blast fifty-fifty more than records.

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