Mikaela Shiffrin Tests Positive for Covid-19

28th December 2021

Last modified on December 30th, 2021

Shiffrin is the latest Alpine star to test positive with covid-19.

The Swiss skier and super-G and giant slalom world champion, Lara Gut-Behrami,  has recently tested positive.

As has Austria’s Katharina Liensberger and New Zealand’s Alice Robinson.

It has meant all have missed World Cup events.

“I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing well, but unfortunately I had a positive COVID test,” Shiffrin, 26, wrote on Instagram. “I am following protocol and isolating.”

👋, I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing well, but unfortunately I had a positive COVID test. I’m following protocol and isolating, & I will miss Lienz. Best of luck to my teammates…I’ll be cheering for you. Thank you all for your support. I’ll see you in the new year. 🤍 pic.twitter.com/YxZnwWP6f1

— Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) December 27, 2021

Shiffrin’s positive test comes after she won the giant slalom race in Courchevel, France.

It was her 72nd career World Cup victory.

Only Lindsey Vonn of the United States, with 82 victories, and Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 86 races in the ’70s and ’80s, have more career World Cup wins.

Shiffrin currently leads the women’s overall standings.

UPDATE:

France’s Tessa Worley won the giant slalom event on Tuesday.

She pushed  Petra Vlhova from Slovakia into second place.

It was Worley’s first World Cup win of the season.

The world champion Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland also missed  the race after testing positive.

The women’s slalom event took place on Wednesday.