Italian World Cup alpine ski racer

Olympic Games2022 BeijingGiant slalom2018 PyeongchangGiant slalom2022 BeijingCombinedWorld Championships2011 Garmisch-PartenkirchenGiant slalomJunior World Championships2009 Garmisch-PartenkirchenCombined2010 Mont BlancGiant 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 *le in 2020, becoming the first Italian female to achieve this feat. She is also an Olympic and World Championship medalist. She competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's giant slalom, winning a silver medal, and Women's combined, winning a bronze medal.

Contents

• 1 Ski racing
• 2 Personal
• 3 World Cup results
  • 3.1 Season *les
  • 3.2 Season standings
  • 3.3 Race victories
  • 3.4 Podiums
• 4 World Championship results
• 5 Olympic results
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External links

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 B*ino. 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 *le. With five wins and eleven podiums during the season, she added two more globes for the giant slalom and combined *les.

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

Through March 2022, Brignone has 20 World Cup victories and 49 podiums, with 26 in giant slalom, 13 in super-G, 4 in downhill and 6 in combined.

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

Brignone during Garmisch-Partenkirchen Kandahar downhill in 2017

Season *les

• 4 *les – (1 Overall, 1 GS, 1 AC, 1 SG)

Season standings

^ Season-ending surgery in December 2012Standings through 20 March 2022

Race victories

Source:

Podiums

World Championship results

Olympic results

See also

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

References

External links

• Federica Brignone at FIS (alpine)
• Federica Brignone at Olympics.com
• Federica Brignone at Olympedia
• Federica Brignone at the Italian Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Federica Brignone at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Italian Winter Sports Federation – (FISI) – alpine skiing – Federica Brignone – (in Italian)
• Official website – (in Italian and English)