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Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin ... grandfather was Jewish. [14] Shiffrin's father Jeff grew up in New Jersey and was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family.
Shifrin, Shiffrin, Schifrin and Schiffrin (Yiddish: שיפרין shifrin, Russian: Шифрин Šifrín) is a matronymic Jewish surname of Yiddish origin. Shifrin derives from the Yiddish female personal שפרה shifre ( Shifre ), from Hebrew שִׁפְרָה šīp̄ərā, shifrá ( Shifra ) 'beauty, grace' (see Shiphrah ).
Jeff Shiffrin had suffered a severe head injury in an accident at the family's Colorado home. He died on Feb. 2, 2020, at age 65. Mikaela Shiffrin considers quitting
She won four World Cup overall championships – third amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin – with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, [2] plus another in 2012. [3] Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. [4]
Mikaela Shiffrin of USA competes during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Giant Slalom on November 26, 2016, in Killington, Vermont. Oh, and don’t worry about the relative lack of snow ...
Each named US Ski & Snowboard athlete received one-time payment of $1,300 for COVID-19 relief through Jeff Shiffrin Athlete Resiliency Fund
Schifrin was born in Buenos Aires to a Jewish family. [2] His father, Luis Schifrin, led the second violin section of the orchestra at the Teatro Colón for three decades. [1] At the age of six, Schifrin began a six-year course of study on piano with Enrique Barenboim, the father of pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.
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