This latest victory for the Olympic champion means that she is now tied with Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, for the most World Cup wins, which now stands at an impressive 41, before turning 23 years-of-age.

Shiffrin recorded an overall time of 1 minute 50.86 secs to take the gold medal in Flauchau, Austria, today, 1.06 seconds ahead of home favourite Bernadette Schild, who claimed silver.

Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter took bronze, 1.43 seconds behind Shiffrin.

Reigning World Cup champion Shiffrin did not have it all her own way and was under pressure going into the second run after recording a time of just 55.98 in the first run, 0.37 seconds slower than Schild.

However, the American underlined her favourite tag for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, by recording a time of 54.88 in the second run to seal gold, the best run time of the day by 0.13 seconds.

As well as equalling Moser-Pröll’s aforementioned record, today’s win means that Shiffrin has now won her fifth straight World Cup event, the longest winning streak by a man or woman in 20 years.

Former German skier Katja Seizinger, who won five Olympic medals including three golds during her career, recorded five straight World Cup victories in 1997.

Shiffrin told NBC after the race,: “I was just thinking [during the second run], really, I have nothing to lose.

“I wanted to ski free.”

There was more good news for Shiffrin’s title hopes with closest slalom rivals Petra Vlhova, of Slovakia, and Wendy Holdener, of Switzerland, failing to finish.

Following the result Shiffrin now leads the overall rankings by 821 points.

The next FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup event sees the athletes remain in Austria as they head to Bad Kleinkirchheim for a downhill and a super giant slalom event, taking place from January 13 to 14.