MARIBOR, Slovenia: US star Mikaela Shiffin did not let skiing over a broken gate in the opening run prevent her from winning the Maribor slalom on Sunday, her fifth success in the discipline this season.

Shiffrin bagged her 27th World Cup race and 24th slalom win as she timed an overall 1min 39.61sec to see off Swiss rival Wendy Holdener by .19sec and Sweeden’s Frida Hansdotter by .32sec.

The 21-year-old from Colorado, who also won a pair of giant slaloms last month at Semmering, briefly lost the lead after her near mishap with the gate as it rolled down the piste.

But she managed to gain enough time on a searing bottom section showing to recoup her advantage and pull off the win. Shiffrin had five days earlier failed to finish a slalom run for the first time in four seasons at Zagreb after she straddled a gate to end a 12 slalom race winning streak.

She is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Tamara McKinney and Lindsey Vonn, the only other US women to land the season crystal globe to date.

Shiffrin is looking good to deliver on that ambition as she now leads the standings with a 305-point advantage over Swiss holder Lara Gut.