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Mikaela Shiffrin secured a record-tying sixth women's overall World Cup skiing title by holding off a challenge from emerging German rival Emma Aicher in the final race of the season Wednesday in Norway.

Shiffrin needed only to finish in the top 15 of a giant slalom and the American standout secured that before Aicher even began her second run.

The 31-year-old American matched Austrian downhill great Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who won her six titles in the 1970s.Moser-Pröll won five straight titles from 1971-75 then a sixth in 1979. Shiffrin won three straight from 2017-19, then back-to-back titles in 2022 and '23.

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00:00Michaela Schifrin secured a record-tying sixth women's overall World Cup skiing title
00:04by holding off a challenge from emerging German rival Emma Eicher
00:08in the final race of the season Wednesday in Norway.
00:12Schifrin needed only to finish in the top 15 of a giant slalom,
00:16and the American standout secured that before Eicher even began her second run.
00:21The 31-year-old American matched Austrian downhill great Anne-Marie Moser-Proll,
00:26who won her six titles in the 1970s.
00:30Moser-Proll won five straight titles from 1971 to 1975, then a sixth in 1979.
00:37Schifrin won three straight from 2017 to 19, then back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023.
00:44Schifrin won five, and as the latest in 2011 and subsequent shorter titles,
00:44they were just released on 1986 with the 53.!*
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