Federica Brignone

Federica Brignone

Brignone in 2018 in Aosta
Personal information
Nickname	La tigre delle nevi
Born	(1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 (age 34) Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Giant slalom, super-G, combined, downhill, slalom
Club	CS Carabinieri [1]
World Cup debut	28 December 2007 (age 17)
Website	federicabrignone.com
Olympics
Teams	4 – (2010–2022)
Medals	3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	7 – (2011, 2015–2025)
Medals	5 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	18 – (2008–2025)
Wins	35 – (16 GS, 12 SG, 5 AC, 2 DH)
Podiums	80 – (40 GS, 24 SG, 10 DH, 6 AC)
Overall titles	1 – (2020)
Discipline titles	3 – (GS – 2020, AC – 2020, SG – 2022)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing Italy World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Giant slalom 16 14 10 Super-G 12 6 6 Downhill 2 5 3 Combined 5 1 0 Total 35 26 19 International competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 2 World Championships 2 3 0 Total 2 4 2 Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Giant slalom 2018 Pyeongchang Giant slalom 2022 Beijing Combined World Championships 2023 Méribel Combined 2025 Saalbach Giant slalom 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant slalom 2023 Méribel Giant slalom 2025 Saalbach Super-G Junior World Championships 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Combined 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, ^{[2] [3]} as well as three dicpline titles between 2020 and 2022. As of February 2025, she has won 34 World Cup races, three Olympic medals and five World Championships medals. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in giant slalom and a bronze in combined. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} At the 2025 World Championships, she won a gold medal in giant slalom and a silver medal in super-G. She was nicknamed "Tigre delle Nevi" ("Snow Tiger") ^{[8] [9]} and "Freccia di La Salle" ^[10] by Italian sports journalists.

Ski racing

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, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst, ^[11] and missed the rest of the 2013 season.

During the 2017 World Cup finals at Aspen, Brignone led an Italian podium sweep in giant slalom, 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, Brignone won her first Olympic medal, the bronze in giant slalom.

In the 2020 World Cup, Brignone earned the overall crystal globe with 1378 points, ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin (1225), who had not ran since January due to her father's death, and Petra Vlhová (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.

At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom and the bronze medal in combined. ^[12]

At the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel–Méribel, she won the gold medal in combined and the silver medal in giant slalom, twelve years after Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011. In the following 2024 World Cup, she won 6 races, her best tally so far.

At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Brignone won the gold medal in giant slalom ^{[13] [14]} and silver in super-G. ^[15] During the 2025 World Cup, she has already won seven races, her new best tally, including her two first downhill victories.

Personal life

Brignone, born in Milan, Lombardy and grown up in Aosta Valley, 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. ^[16] She has been engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort. ^[17]

Brignone lives in La Salle, Aosta Valley.

World Cup results

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

• 4 titles – (1 Overall, 1 GS, 1 AC, 1 SG)

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	—	—	—	—
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
2025	34	1	—	2	2	1

^ Season-ending surgery in December 2012

Standings through 21 February 2025

Race victories

	Total	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined	Parallel
Wins	35	—	16	12	2	5	—
Podiums	80	—	40	24	10	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 [18]	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
2025 8 victories (4 GS, 2 DH, 2 SG)	26 October 2024	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom
	28 December 2024	Semmering, Austria	Giant slalom
	11 January 2025	St. Anton, Austria	Downhill
	19 January 2025	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Super-G
	25 January 2025	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Downhill
	21 February 2025	Sestriere, Italy	Giant slalom
	22 February 2025		Giant slalom
	2 March 2025	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G

Podiums

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
2025	2		1	2		2	4						8	0	3	11
Total	2	5	3	12	6	6	16	14	10	5	1	0	35	26	19	80
	10			24			40			6			80

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
2025	34	—	1	2	10	—

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. ^{[19] [20]}

• 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

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

References

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.
4. "Federica Brignone Olympic Profile | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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10. https://www.corriere.it/sport/25_febbraio_22/brignone-vittoria-gigante-sestriere-influenza-d57f2a2f-8719-4689-a5bc-78b933188xlk.shtml
11. "Federica Brignone puts season on hold for ankle surgery". FIS Alpine. 13 December 2012.
12. "Brignone ARGENTO nel gigante - Rai Sport".
13. "Italy's Brignone wins women's giant slalom world gold". Reuters. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
14. "Federica Brignone dominates women's giant slalom in both runs to claim gold at 2025 World Alpine Ski Championships". olympics.com. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
15. "Austrian gold at the skiing worlds in Austria finally pumps up the host nation". APNews. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
16. FIS-ski.com – Maria-Rosa Quario – accessed 28 December 2011
17. "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.
18. "Sci: Brignone show, vince superG di Garmisch. 'Ora concentrati sui Giochi'". ansa.it. ansa.it. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
19. "ALBO D'ORO CAMPIONATI ITALIANI SCI ALPINO". sportflash24.it (in Italian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
20. "CAMPIONATI ITALIANI: DOPPIETTA DI FEDERICA BRIGNONE A LA THUILE. AL MASCHILE ORI PER ZAZZI E FRANZOSO". eurosport.it. Retrieved 24 March 2023.

External links

• Federica Brignone at FIS (alpine)
• Federica Brignone at Olympics.com
• Federica Brignone at Olympedia
• Federica Brignone at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (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)