The 21-year-old American has won five out of the six slalom events this term and is the hot favourite to triumph in the discipline again under the lights at the Austrian resort.

Shiffrin, the Sochi 2014 Olympic slalom champion, has also won two giant slalom races this season to build a commanding lead at the summit of the overall World Cup standings.

She has 948 points with last year's winner, Lara Gut of Switzerland, second on 643.

The US skier will be confident of more success in Flachau as she has won at the venue twice before, in 2013 and 2014.

Her biggest rival looks likely to be Slovakia's Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, the only other woman to win a slalom World Cup race this season.

The 32-year-old took top honours in Zagreb in Croatia on January 3 to end Shiffrin's hopes of breaking Swiss skier Vreni Schneider’s record of consecutive World Cup slalom wins.

The American skied out of contention on that occasion, with Velez-Zuzulová also a double winner in Flachau.

She won back-to-back slalom races at the resort last season. 

Switzerland's Wendy Holdener, Slovakia's Petra Vlhová and Czech skier Šárka Strachová will also be contenders for the podium.

The first runs tomorrow will begin at 5.45pm local time, before the second runs get underway at 8.45pm. 

Shiffrin's latest slalom victory came yesterday in Maribor in Slovenia, despite her having to ski over a broken gate which rolled down the course.