Jeff Shiffrin: How did Mikaela Shiffrin's father die?

Jeff Shiffrin is the father Mikaela Shiffrin. Jeff Shiffrin’s daughter Mikaela is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event.

Jeff Shiffrin Accident What Happened

What caused the death of Jeff Shiffrin? Less than four months after her beloved maternal grandmother died at age 98, Mikaela Shiffrin was grieving the sudden death of her father, Jeff.

She tweeted:

“My family is heartbroken beyond comprehension about the unexpected passing of my kindhearted, loving, caring, patient, wonderful father. Our mountains, our ocean, our sunrise, our heart, our soul, our everything. He taught us so many valuable lessons,” Shiffrin tweeted. “But above everything else, he taught us the golden rule: Be nice, think first. This is something I will carry with me forever. He was the firm foundation of our family and we miss him terribly.

My family is heartbroken beyond comprehension about the unexpected passing of my kindhearted, loving, caring, patient, wonderful father. Our mountains, our ocean, our sunrise, our heart, our soul, our everything. He taught us so many valuable lessons… pic.twitter.com/sqJB5SlOrn

Mikaela Shiffrin tweeted the news on a Monday morning, asking for privacy and not revealing any details about her father’s death. According to Ski Racing Magazine, Mikaela Shiffrin’s father, Jeff Shiffrin died on Sunday in an accident at his home in Edwards. He died on February 2, 2020, following the accident at home. The nature of that accident has never been publicly revealed by the family.

But the details of the Jeff Shiffrin accidents have been described by some reputable news outlets

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her grief over her father, Jeff Shiffrin’s, death. According to reports and interviews, Mikaela “couldn’t even get out of bed” at times, and her father’s death caused her to “consider quitting” skiing. Shiffrin thanked him in a Tweet after winning her historic 47th World Cup slalom race in 2022: “Dad, I hope you had a good view.”

The cause of death was an accidental head injury, says The Aspen Times: “The Eagle County coroner has confirmed that Shiffrin, 65, died of a head injury, and the cause of death is an accident.” Jeff Shiffrin’s injuries were “sustained in a fall,” according to an obituary in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

According to Aspensojo who gave a deeper detail on the death of Mikaela Shiffrin’s father, Jeff Shiffrin, noting that Jeff Shiffrin had just been in Bulgaria to see his daughter’s race:

After the Bansko races, Jeff joined Eileen and Mikaela for a few days of rest in the resort town of Lake Garda, Italy. They had come to Lake Garda as a young family 18 years earlier to windsurf, and Jeff and Eileen reminisced about that trip while walking around the lake. “We loved having him there,” Eileen says. When they said goodbye, they planned to see each other in five weeks. 

Two days later, while training in Folgaria, Italy, Mikaela received a call from Taylor asking to talk to their mom, whom he hadn’t been able to reach. Taylor told Eileen that his father had fallen and she and Mikaela needed to come home immediately. They all got to be together once more before Jeff died on February 2.

This implies that Jeff Shiffrin was alive for some time after his accident. A direct flight from Italy to Denver would take approximately 11 hours, not including planning and local transit time. As a result, the accident could have occurred on Saturday, February 1st, or even on January 31st.

Jeff Shiffrin worked as an anesthesiologist for Vail Health and Anesthesia Partners of Colorado before becoming an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado. He stayed in Colorado most of the time while Mikaela and her mother, Eileen, traveled the international ski racing circuit. When he did go to races, he usually tried to “stay out of their way,” occupying himself with photography during the race.

He was born on March 8, 1954, in Dover, New Jersey, United States. He died at the age of 66 years old. He had two children- Mikaela Shiffrin and her elder brother, Taylor Shiffrin. Taylor is 30 years old as of 2022.

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