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Born | Milan, Lombardy, Italy | 14 July 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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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]
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]
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]
![]() | Season |
Discipline | |
2020 | Overall |
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Giant slalom | |
Combined | |
2022 | Super-G |
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 |
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 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
27 February 2016 | ![]() | Super-G | |
2017 | 24 January 2017 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
24 February 2017 | ![]() | Combined | |
19 March 2017 | ![]() | Giant slalom | |
2018 | 29 December 2017 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
13 January 2018 | ![]() | Super-G | |
4 March 2018 | ![]() | Combined | |
2019 | 24 November 2018 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
24 February 2019 | ![]() | Combined | |
2020 5 victories (2 GS, 2 AC, 1 SG) | 17 December 2019 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
12 January 2020 | ![]() | Combined | |
18 January 2020 | ![]() | Giant slalom | |
2 February 2020 | ![]() | Super-G | |
23 February 2020 | ![]() | Combined | |
2021 | 28 February 2021 | ![]() | Super-G |
2022 4 victories (3 SG, 1 GS) | 12 December 2021 | ![]() | Super-G |
16 January 2022 | ![]() | Super-G | |
30 January 2022 | ![]() | Super-G | |
20 March 2022 | ![]() | Giant slalom | |
2023 | 14 January 2023 | ![]() | Super-G |
2024 6 victories (4 GS, 2 SG) | 2 December 2023 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
3 December 2023 | Giant slalom | ||
17 December 2023 | ![]() | Super-G | |
3 March 2024 | ![]() | Super-G | |
9 March 2024 | ![]() | Giant slalom | |
17 March 2024 | ![]() | Giant slalom |
Season | Podiums | |||||||||||||||
Downhill | Super G | Giant slalom | Combined | Total | ||||||||||||
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![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Brignone has won nine national championships at individual senior level. [14] [15]
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The women's slalom in the 2021 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 9 events, as planned.
The women's super-G in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, which produced six different winners from five different countries.
The women's giant slalom in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events. The season had been scheduled for nine events, but all of the last three giant slaloms were canceled.
The women's slalom in the 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, although there were 9 originally scheduled.
The women's overall in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 30 events in 6 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), Alpine combined (AC), and parallel (PAR). This was the first year that parallel was treated as a separate discipline; prior to the 2019–20 season, it had been a sub-element of the slalom discipline. The season had originally been scheduled to have 41 races, but 11 races that had originally been scheduled were canceled during the season, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as discussed below.
The women's giant slalom competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 7 February, on "Ice River" course at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre in Yanqing District. The Olympic champion was Sara Hector of Sweden, for whom this is the first Olympic medal. Federica Brignone of Italy won silver, and Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland bronze.
The women's overall in the 2022 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 37 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), and parallel (PAR). The sixth discipline, Alpine combined (AC), had all of its events in the 2021–22 season cancelled due to the continuing schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic, which also happened in 2020-21. In an adjustment that was partially motivated by the pandemic, each of the four main disciplines had nine races, while the parallel discipline had only one. The season did not have any cancellations.
The women's super-G in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup included eight events, including the final. The original schedule called for nine events, but a scheduled downhill at St. Anton on 14 January was converted to a super-G due to the inability to hold pre-race practice runs on either of the two days prior to the event. A later super-G at Cortina was converted into a downhill to restore the original schedule balance, but then a downhill at Crans Montana on 25 February had to be delayed a day due to fog and dangerous course conditions, and the super-G previously scheduled for that day was cancelled and not rescheduled.
The women's slalom in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eleven events, including the final. The original schedule also called for eleven events, but a night slalom at Zagreb on 5 January was cancelled due to high winds and warm weather and not immediately rescheduled. However, a week later, the race was rescheduled as a second slalom at Špindlerův Mlýn on 28 January, accompanied by a shift of the giant slalom scheduled there that day to Kronplatz on 25 January.
The women's overall competition in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH), super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), and slalom (SL). The fifth and sixth disciplines, parallel (PAR). and Alpine combined (AC), had all events in the 2022–23 season cancelled, either due to the schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic (AC) or due to bad weather (PAR). The original schedule called for 42 races, but in addition to the parallel, two downhills and a super-G were cancelled during the season.
The women's giant slalom in the 2019 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 8 events.
The women's slalom in the 2019 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 12 events, including three parallel slaloms. At the end of the season, a new discipline was created for parallel races.
The women's overall competition in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 39 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH), super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), and slalom (SL). The schedule initially was planned to consist of 45 events, but two downhills on the Matterhorn in mid-November 2023 were cancelled due to high winds and not rescheduled. As noted below in the season summary, four more speed races scheduled for February were also cancelled, reducing the total number of season events to 39.
The women's giant slalom in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup included eleven events, including the final. The season opened in Sölden, Austria on 28 October 2023. After an injury to defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States, the season championship became a battle between Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland and Federica Brignone of Italy, which went down to the last race of the season at the finals in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria before Gut-Behrami triumphed.
The women's slalom in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eleven events, including the final. The slalom season began with the traditional "reindeer" opening races in Levi, Finland on 11-12 November 2023. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States repeated as champion, her eighth victory in the discipline, tying the record for most victories in one discipline.
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
Nata a Milano, la Brignone vive a La Salle, in Val d'Aosta, ed è fidanzata con Nicolas Raffort, sciatore francese.