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Federica Brignone

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.[2] She is also an Olympic and World Championship medalist.[3] At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in the giant slalom and a bronze in the combined.[4][5][6][7]

Federica Brignone
Brignone in 2018 in Aosta
Personal information
Born (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 (age 33)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesGiant slalom, super-G, combined, downhill, slalom
ClubCS Carabinieri[1]
World Cup debut28 December 2007 (age 17)
Websitefedericabrignone.com
Olympics
Teams4 – (2010–2022)
Medals3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams6 – (2011, 2015– 2023)
Medals3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons17 – (2008–2024)
Wins27 – (12 GS, 10 SG, 5 AC)
Podiums69 – (36 GS, 20 SG, 7 DH, 6 AC)
Overall titles1 – (2020)
Discipline titles3 – (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
Total 27 26 16
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 2
World Championships 1 2 0
Total 1 3 2
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Giant slalom
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Pyeongchang Giant slalom
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Beijing Combined
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Méribel Combined
Silver medal – second place 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2023 Méribel Giant slalom
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Combined
Silver medal – second place 2010 Mont Blanc Giant slalom

Ski racing edit

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,[8] 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.[9]

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.[10]

Personal edit

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.[11]

She has been engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.[12]

World Cup results edit

 
Brignone during Garmisch-Partenkirchen Kandahar downhill in 2017
 
Brignone the day of her victory in World Cup's Giant slalom of Courchevel in 2019.

Season titles edit

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

Season standings edit

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
2010 19 43 — 12 — — — —
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 — 7
2022 31 3 38 6 1 14 —
2023 32 4 48 5 2 14 —
2024 33 2 54 2 2 5
^ Season-ending surgery in December 2012
Standings through 9 March 2024

Race victories edit

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

Podiums edit

Season Podiums
Downhill Super G Giant slalom Combined Total
                              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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Brignone has won nine national championships at individual senior level.[14][15]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Olimpiadi Invernali Pyeongchang 2018" (in Italian). carabinieri.it. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  2. ^ "FEDERICA BRIGNONE: CHI È LA PRIMA ITALIANA A VINCERE LA COPPA DEL MONDO DI SCI". mam-e.it (in Italian). 8 December 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  3. ^ "World Trophy (1985-2008)/World Championships (2009 on)". skiracing.com. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2020. The cancellation of Are officially marks the end of the women's season, as they will not be replaced on the World Cup calendar. This means that Federica Brignone has officially earned the overall crystal globe. Mikaela Shiffrin finished second in the overall standings, 153 points behind Brignone. Petra Vlhova finished in third. Brignone also earned the giant slalom overall crystal globe, followed by Vlhova and Shiffrin
  4. ^ "Federica Brignone Olympic Profile | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Federica Brignone: Italy's alpine skiing champion enters record books with Beijing 2022 'dream'". olympics.com.
  6. ^ "Federica Brignone shares her mantra: 'You only live once'". olympics.com.
  7. ^ "Italy's Brignone unsure of Milan-Cortina 'dream'". MSN. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  8. ^ "Federica Brignone puts season on hold for ankle surgery". FIS Alpine. 13 December 2012.
  9. ^ "Brignone ARGENTO nel gigante - Rai Sport".
  10. ^ "Brignone gigantesca: ancora prima in Canada, è l'italiana più vincente di sempre in Coppa". gazzetta.it. gazzetta.it. 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  11. ^ FIS-ski.com – Maria-Rosa Quario – accessed 28 December 2011
  12. ^ "Federica Brignone - Il mio sogno azzurro" (PDF) (in Italian). federicabrignone.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020. Nata a Milano, la Brignone vive a La Salle, in Val d'Aosta, ed è fidanzata con Nicolas Raffort, sciatore francese.
  13. ^ "Sci: Brignone show, vince superG di Garmisch. 'Ora concentrati sui Giochi'". ansa.it. ansa.it. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  14. ^ "ALBO D'ORO CAMPIONATI ITALIANI SCI ALPINO". sportflash24.it (in Italian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  15. ^ "CAMPIONATI ITALIANI: DOPPIETTA DI FEDERICA BRIGNONE A LA THUILE. AL MASCHILE ORI PER ZAZZI E FRANZOSO". eurosport.it. Retrieved 24 March 2023.

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