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Federica Brignone
Alpine skier
Federica Brignone 2018.jpg
Brignone in 2018 in Aosta
Disciplines Giant slalom, super-G, combined, downhill, slalom
Club CS Carabinieri
Born (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 (age 34)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
World Cup debut 28 December 2007 (age 17)
Website federicabrignone.com
Olympics
Teams 4 – (2010–2022)
Medals 3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams 6 – (2011, 2015– 2023)
Medals 3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 17 – (2008–2024)
Wins 27 – (12 GS, 10 SG, 5 AC)
Podiums 69 – (36 GS, 20 SG, 7 DH, 6 AC)
Overall titles 1 – (2020)
Discipline titles 3 – (GS – 2020, AC – 2020,
SG – 2022)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Italy Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 12 14 10
Super-G 10 6 4
Downhill 0 5 2
Combined 5 1 0
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 2
World Championships 1 2 0
Olympic Games
Silver 2022 Beijing Giant slalom
Bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Giant slalom
Bronze 2022 Beijing Combined
World Championships
Gold 2023 Méribel Combined
Silver 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant slalom
Silver 2023 Méribel Giant slalom
Junior World Championships
Gold 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Combined
Silver 2010 Mont Blanc Giant slalom

Federica Brignone (born 14 July 1990) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She competes in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on giant slalom and super-G. Brignone won the World Cup overall title in 2020, becoming the first Italian female to achieve this feat. She is also an Olympic and World Championship medalist. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in the giant slalom and a bronze in the combined.

Ski racing

Born in Milan, Lombardy, Brignone made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 2007, and her first full season on the World Cup circuit was in 2010. At her first World Championships in 2011, Brignone won the silver medal in the giant slalom. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst, and missed the rest of the 2013 season.

During the World Cup finals at Aspen in March 2017, Brignone won giant slalom to lead an Italian podium sweep, with teammates Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino. She was part of two other hat tricks by Italy, both in downhill: as runner-up at Bad Kleinkirchheim in 2018, and a third place at Bansko in 2020.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Brignone won her first Olympic medal, the bronze in the giant slalom.

In March 2020, Brignone earned the overall crystal globe with 1378 points – ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin (1225) and Petra Vlhova (1189) – becoming the first and to date only Italian woman to win World Cup overall title. With five wins and eleven podiums during the season, she added two more globes for the giant slalom and combined titles.

Brignone won the silver medal in the giant slalom and the bronze medal in the combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Through December 2023, Brignone has 23 World Cup victories and 60 podiums, with 32 in giant slalom, 16 in super-G, 6 in downhill, and 6 in combined.

On 2 and 3 December 2023, Brignone achieved consecutive victories in the Giant slalom in Tremblant, Canada.

Personal

Brignone is the daughter of Maria Rosa Quario (b.1961), an alpine racer in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who had four World Cup wins and fifteen podiums, all in slalom.

She has been engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.

World Cup results

2017 Audi FIS Ski Weltcup Garmisch-Partenkirchen Damen - Federica Brignone - by 2eight - 8SC8889
Brignone during Garmisch-Partenkirchen Kandahar downhill in 2017
Federica Brignone (Courchevel 2019)
Brignone the day of her victory in World Cup's Giant slalom of Courchevel in 2019.

Season titles

  • 5 titles – (1 Overall, 1 GS, 2 AC, 1 SG)
FIS Crystal Globe.svg Season
Discipline
2020 Overall
Giant slalom
Combined
2022 Super-G

Season standings

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
2010 19 43 — 12 — — — N/A
2011 20 26 — 5 44 — 36
2012 21 20 55 6 49 — 20
   2013 ^ 22 103 — — — — 30
2014 23 31 50 9 — — —
2015 24 20 39 7 17 — —
2016 25 8 39 4 6 43 17
2017 26 5 46 4 8 27 2
2018 27 11 50 5 6 24 3
2019 28 6 39 5 8 21 1
2020 29 1 36 1 2 3 1 3
2021 30 7 28 5 2 19 N/A 7
2022 31 3 38 6 1 14 —
2023 32 4 48 5 2 14 N/A
2024 33 2 54 2 2 5
^ Season-ending surgery in December 2012
Standings through 9 March 2024

Race victories

Total Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
Wins 27 — 12 10 — 5 —
Podiums 69 — 36 20 7 6 —
Season
Date Location Discipline
2016 24 October 2015 Austria Sölden, Austria Giant slalom
27 February 2016 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra Super-G
2017 24 January 2017 Italy Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom
24 February 2017  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
19 March 2017 United States Aspen, USA Giant slalom
2018 29 December 2017 Austria Lienz, Austria Giant slalom
13 January 2018 Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Super-G
4 March 2018  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
2019 24 November 2018 United States Killington, USA Giant slalom
24 February 2019  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
2020
5 victories
(2 GS, 2 AC, 1 SG)		 17 December 2019 France Courchevel, France Giant slalom
12 January 2020 Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Combined
18 January 2020 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom
2 February 2020 Russia Rosa Khutor, Russia Super-G
23 February 2020  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
2021 28 February 2021 Italy Val di Fassa, Italy Super-G
2022
4 victories
(3 SG, 1 GS)		 12 December 2021  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G
16 January 2022 Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Super-G
30 January 2022 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G
20 March 2022 France Méribel, France Giant slalom
2023 14 January 2023 Austria St. Anton, Austria Super-G
2024
6 victories
(4 GS, 2 SG)		 2 December 2023 Canada Tremblant, Canada Giant slalom
3 December 2023 Giant slalom
17 December 2023 France Val-d'Isère, France Super-G
3 March 2024 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G
9 March 2024 Sweden Åre, Sweden Giant slalom
17 March 2024 Austria Saalbach, Austria Giant slalom

Podiums

Season Podiums
Downhill Super G Giant slalom Combined Total
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Σ
2010 1 0 0 1 1
2011 1 0 1 0 1
2012 3 1 0 3 1 4
2013 0 0 0 0
2014 0 0 0 0
2015 1 0 0 1 1
2016 1 1 4 2 0 4 6
2017 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 6
2018 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 5
2019 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4
2020 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 5 5 1 11
2021 1 2 2 1 2 2 5
2022 3 1 1 4 1 0 5
2023 1 1 2 2 1 1 5 1 7
2024 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 6 5 2 13
Total 0 5 2 10 6 4 12 14 10 5 1 0 27 26 16 69
7 20 36 6 69

World Championship results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2011 20 DNF1 2 — — —
2013 22 Injured: did not compete
2015 24 19 DNF1 — — —
2017 26 24 4 8 — 7
2019 28 — 5 10 — 6
2021 30 DNF1 DNF1 10 — DNF2
2023 32 — 2 8 — 1

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2010 19 — 18 — — —
2014 23 DNF2 DNF1 — — 11
2018 27 — 3 6 DNF 8
2022 31 DNF2 2 7 — 3

National titles

Brignone has won nine national championships at individual senior level.

  • Italian Alpine Ski Championships
    • Super-G: 2017, 2023 (2)
    • Giant slalom: 2011, 2017, 2018 (3)
    • Slalom: 2021 (1)
    • Combined: 2016, 2017, 2023 (3)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Federica Brignone para niños

  • Italian female skiers most successful World Cup race winner
  • List of FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women's race winners
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