SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy — Mikaela Shiffrin held a big lead in the first run of Wednesday’s giant slalom and could quickly add to her record total of 83 World Cup wins on the same course where she set the women’s mark a day earlier.

Yesterday the light was flat, making it hard to see the snow surface and terrain. Today it was variable for the first women. When Marta Bassino started the race, the race start was in a fog and the bottom was in the sun. Eventually, the mist at the top lifted and Kronplatz provided a beautiful morning.

Mikaela Shiffrin skied the first run as well as she could. The ERTA is steep and it is impossible to ski it perfectly clean, but she came close. She is one with her equipment and has the power to handle the forces. Her rhythm and timing are only possible when you are skiing well and with confidence.

Today she handled the crux turn better than the others and then knifed the rest of the pitch. While many of the top 15 could not arc the pitch turns, Shiffrin was able.to execute at a higher level than the rest. She used the fastest splits in the first and final sectors to take a (+0.51) lead into the afternoon.

Shiffrin also led the first run on Tuesday, when she moved ahead of the previous record of 82 wins held jointly with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn.

Shiffrin had a late night after her record-breaking day.

“But it was a really nice evening,” she said. “It was so nice to see messages from people and so much support and so much excitement about the race. I was definitely looking a lot at all of that and then trying to go to bed and have a good night’s sleep. And I was awake at midnight. I was awake at 3. Then I was awake at 5. I was hungry all night. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m a mess.’”

Still, Shiffrin managed to pull herself together in order to bring out her best skiing again.

“It’s a beautiful hill again today. The surface is amazing and it was a nice course setting, a lot of active skiing, dynamic skiing,” she said. “So I felt very good with the first run and I am looking forward to one more run on the hill.”

The rest of the fantastic women were in a different race. Sara Hector was the second fastest in the morning run (+0.51). Today Marta Bassino had a better start to her day and although she was challenged, she is third, going into the final (+0.65) behind Shiffrin.

Stifel US Alpine Team members Paula Moltzan and Nina O’Brien are among the others. Moltzan is ranked ninth (+1.51) and O’Brien is 14th (+1.98). Moltzan continues to show she is an elite GS competitor and O’Brien continues to gain the skill and confidence required to achieve top-ten results. Moltzan struggled in the second sector but still found herself in the top 10. All three of the US athletes in the second run are ranked in the top 15 after the first run.

Canada’s Kranjska Gora GS champion Valerie Grenier had difficulty finding her rhythm on the steep pitch. Her first two sectors were among the best but then struggled and did not carry her speed into the bottom. Grenier is sitting in 20th (+2.33).

A testament to the quality of the racing surface, seven athletes with bibs above 30 qualified for the final run. Slovenia’s Neja Dvornik, bib 50, was the last to do so; she is ranked 27th after the first run. First-year FIS athlete Lara Colturi is 30th (+2.61) behind Shiffrin.

Analysis of the fastest three, qualified North Americans and top 30 first-run results

Top 30 first run results January 25th Kronplatz GS

The Associated Press contributed to this report.