American star Mikaela Shiffrin maintained her unbeaten start to the slalom season on Sunday with a dominant victory at the alpine skiing World Cup meeting in Copper Mountain, Colorado.

In front of a home crowd, the 30-year-old American cruised to victory with a combined time of 1min 48.75sec, finishing a comfortable 1.57sec ahead of Germany's Lena Durr in second. Albanian teenager Lara Colturi finished in third place, 1.85sec behind Shiffrin.

Shiffrin's win -- the 104th World Cup circuit victory of her career and her 67th slalom win -- followed similarly dominant slalom victories by the two-time Olympic gold medallist in Finland and Austria earlier this season.

She tops the discipline standings and also heads the overall standings, 90 points clear of Colturi.

Shiffrin's form comes as s

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