Mikaela Shiffrin’s perfect start to Alpine skiing’s slalom season is over.

Switzerland’s Camille Rast ended the American star’s six-race World Cup winning streak in the discipline, including a 5-for-5 beginning to the 2025-26 schedule, in a stirring battle Sunday in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Rast won her fourth career World Cup race and second in as many days after taking the giant slalom crown Saturday, finishing the two runs in a combined time of 1 minute, 40.2 seconds. Shiffrin was 0.14 behind in second. Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener rounded out the podium, 1.83 back.

Rast and Shiffrin were in a class of their own from the start, with the American finishing the first run a tenth of a second behind the Swiss. No one else was within 0.75 of the lead.

In the second run, Shiffrin looked like she might come from behind to win for the second straight race, delivering a stellar run that was over a full second better than any of the 28 skiers who preceded her. She took the lead from Holdener by 1.69 seconds.

But the 26-year-old Rast was up to the challenge, posting the best time in the second run as well, 0.04 better than Shiffrin’s.

It capped a stellar showing for Rast, who doubled her career World Cup win total over two days.

“I gave everything I had this weekend,” Rast said Sunday on FIS TV. “A double on the same weekend is quite amazing. I’m so happy.”

Shiffrin had exulted at the bottom of the slope after crushing the field in her second run, hoping it had been enough to keep the streak going. But then came Rast’s turn.

“I was just watching like everybody, so inspired or in awe of Camille’s skiing,” Shiffrin said, according to FIS-ski.com. “Winning back-to-back is very hard to do.”

The weekend was extra meaningful for her and the Swiss team. Rast grew up not far from Crans-Montana, the Swiss ski resort town where a New Year’s fire at a bar killed 40 people and injured more than 100 others last week. Swiss skiers wore black armbands both days, and Rast dedicated Saturday’s giant slalom win to the victims.

Rast is now second in the slalom standings, behind Shiffrin, and cemented her place as a top challenger to the American, who has more Alpine skiing World Cup wins (106) than anyone, as the 2026 Winter Olympics approach. Rast was also leading last week’s slalom in Semmering, Austria, after the first run before Shiffrin surged back to edge her by 0.09 seconds.

That weekend was marred by a choppy slope that caused several skiers to fall or miss gates. Rast complimented the improved conditions in Slovenia.

“It was a little bit a battle, but I had a lot of fun,” Rast said. “The slope was amazing. Preparation was the top from the last week; it’s perfect.”