Mikaela Shiffrin tied Lindsey Vonn‘s female record with her 137th profession Alpine skiing Globe Cup podium, taking third spot in the slalom at the Globe Cup Finals in Andorra on Saturday.

Shiffrin, racing for the second time because breaking Ingemar Stenmark‘s profession Alpine Globe Cup wins record final Saturday, completed 86 hundredths behind Olympic champion Petra Vlhova of Slovakia, combining instances from two runs.

Six of the 22 skiers skied out of the second run on soft snow.

In Shiffrin’s preceding race at the season-ending Finals, she was 14th in Thursday’s super-G, which is not 1 of her main events.

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Shiffrin earned her 137th podium in her 248th get started, which means she has completed in the major 3 in 55 % of her Globe Cup races dating to her debut at age 15 in 2011.

The only males with extra Alpine Globe Cup podiums are the Swede Stenmark (155) and Austrian Marcel Hirscher (138).

Shiffrin’s 1st opportunity to break her tie with Vonn comes in Sunday’s giant slalom, the final race of the season, reside on Peacock.

Shiffrin, who broke Vonn’s female profession wins record of 82 in January, clinched season titles in the general, GS and slalom just before the Finals.

Also Saturday, Swiss Marco Odermatt won the men’s giant slalom by two.11 seconds — the biggest margin of victory in any men’s Globe Cup race in 4 years — for his 13th Globe Cup victory this season, tying the men’s single-season record.

He also reached two,042 points for the season, breaking Austrian Hermann Maier‘s men’s record of two,000 points in 1 season from 1999-2000.

Slovenian Tina Maze holds the general record of two,414 points from 2012-13.

“We partied difficult on Thursday,” right after winning the Globe Cup Finals super-G, Odermatt stated, according to the International Ski Federation. “Today wasn’t uncomplicated since of these damn two,000 points. I actually wanted the podium now. So, a different victory, two seconds ahead, I do not know what to say.”

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