A century in numbers: the stats behind Mikaela Shiffrin's 100 World Cup wins

Mikaela Shiffrin (USA/Atomic) added another chapter to her legendary career on Sunday by winning the Sestriere Slalom for her 100th World Cup victory.

Shiffrin generally doesn't like to talk about her records, but she did offer a glimpse into her inner stats geek during a media conference call at the beginning of this season.

When asked what inspires her, she said, "I'm just generally inspired by people who do their work very well. And it can be in anything, literally watching somebody work an Excel sheet well is cool for me."

With that in mind, let's power up Excel to delve into the numbers behind Shiffrin's 100 World Cup victories.

The Queen of Slalom — and more

An extraordinary 63 of Shiffrin's record 100 World Cup wins have come in Slalom. Only Ingemar Stenmark (SWE, 86), Lindsey Vonn (USA/Head, 82) and Marcel Hirscher (AUT/NED/Van Deer, 67) have won more World Cup races in all disciplines combined than Shiffrin has won in Slalom alone.

The next most World Cup wins in one discipline by any Alpine skier is Stenmark's 46 victories in Giant Slalom.

Shiffrin's Slalom dominance is such that among the eight Alpine ski racers with 50 or more World Cup victories, she has the second-highest percentage of wins in one discipline, trailing only Alberto Tomba (ITA), also in Slalom.

For all her Slalom success, however, let's not forget that Shiffrin has also won 37 World Cup races in non-Slalom disciplines.

If you threw out all 63 of her Slalom victories and left her with 'just' the 37 others, she'd still be in equal seventh spot on the women's all-time World Cup victory list, tied with Marlies Schild (AUT).

Have skis, will travel

Shiffrin has competed on the World Cup in 17 countries, and won in 16 of them — the only exception being Russia, where she came third in her only World Cup race, a city event in 2013 in Moscow.

Fortunately, Shiffrin can console herself with the fact that she did win a non-World Cup race of some importance in Russia once: the 2014 Olympic Slalom title in Sochi.

The American is equally as comfortable on home snow, however, as the USA is her second-most successful country in terms of World Cup wins.

A legend among legends

Shiffrin's counting stats are unparalleled, but her rate stats are equally impressive.

With 100 wins in 278 World Cup starts, she wins once every 2.78 races. Looking at the same eight stars with 50+ victories, Shiffrin's mark ranks second, just behind Stenmark's rate of a win every 2.69 starts.

When it comes to converting podiums into wins, Shiffrin tops even Stenmark, as 64.5% of her podiums are victories — No.1 among our eight legends.

Speaking of podiums, Shiffrin equaled Stenmark's World Cup record of 155 with her victory on Sunday, and will overtake him with her next top-three result.

How high can Shiffrin go?

Shiffrin is still only 29 years old and won't turn 30 until next month. Her 100 wins before turning 30 are obviously an all-time record, but how many more victories could be left in her?

Alpine skiers winning a huge bag of races after 30 used to be rare, but in more recent years, Vonn, Maier and Federica Brignone (ITA/Rossignol) have shown that it can be done. Here's a final look at our eight most successful World Cup Alpine ski racers and the age profile of their victories.

If Shiffrin keeps skiing into her 30s, we wouldn't bet against her moving up this table, just as she has in virtually every other category in her amazing career.

And who knows? One day she might even be able to make her own Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all her records.