Federica Brignone
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Nickname(s) | Tigre delle Nevi[2][3] Freccia di La Salle[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 July 1990 Milan, Lombardy, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 5 – (2010–2026) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 5 (2 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 7 – (2011, 2015–2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 5 (2 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 19 – (2008–2026) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 37 – (17 GS, 13 SG, 5 AC, 2 DH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 85 – (42 GS, 27 SG, 10 DH, 6 AC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 2 – (2020, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 5 – (GS – 2020, 2025; AC – 2020; SG – 2022; DH – 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 15 February 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Federica Brignone (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːka briɲˈɲoːne]; born 14 July 1990) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer, who is the current Olympic champion in giant slalom and super-G, as well as world champion in giant slalom.
Brignone has competed in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on giant slalom, super-G and, more recently, downhill. Brignone won the World Cup overall title in 2020, becoming the first Italian female to achieve this feat,[5][6] and again in 2025, as well as five discipline titles between 2020 and 2025. She has won 37 World Cup races, five 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.[7][8][9][10] At the 2025 World Championships, she won a gold medal in giant slalom and a silver medal in super-G. After a severe injury in April 2025, she made a comeback just before the 2026 Winter Olympics, during which she won gold medals both in giant slalom and super-G, becoming the Italian female alpine skier to have won the most Olympic medals (five), as well as the only Italian alpine skier to have won two gold medals in the same edition of the Olympic Games along with Alberto Tomba.[11]
Ski racing
Brignone made her World Cup debut at the age of 17 in December 2007, during the 2007–08 season, and 2009–10 was her first full season on the World Cup circuit. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, her first, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst,[12] and missed the rest of the 2012–13 season.
In the 2015–16 season, Brignone won her first two World Cup races. During the 2016–2017 finals in Aspen, Brignone led an Italian podium sweep in giant slalom, with teammates Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino, ending the season with three victories. Brignone 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 2019–20 season, Brignone won the overall crystal globe, ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin, who had not ran since January due to her father's death, and Petra Vlhová, becoming the first and to date only Italian woman to win the 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 two medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing: silver in giant slalom and bronze in combined.[13]
At the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel–Méribel she won the gold medal in combined, and the silver medal in giant slalom. In the following 2023–24 season, she won six races – her best tally up to that point.
At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach Brignone won the gold medal in giant slalom[14][15] and silver in super-G.[16] During the 2024–25 season, she won ten races – her best tally ever – including her two first downhill victories, and the overall, the downhill, and the giant slalom titles.
In April 2025, in the giant slalom race of the Italian ski championships in Moena, Fassa Valley, Brignone sustained serious injuries in a crash. A CT scan revealed multiple fractures of the calf and tibial plateau, as well as a tear of her left anterior cruciate ligament,[17] that would force her to miss most of the 2025–26 season. In October 2025, she was awarded as Athlete of the Year by the Italian Winter Sports Federation.[18][19]
In January 2026 Brignone returned to World Cup racing. Subsequently, she participated in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, where, at the Olimpia delle Tofane ski course, she won gold medals in giant slalom and super-G.
Personal life
Born in Milan, Lombardy, and raised in Aosta Valley, Brignone is the daughter of Maria Rosa Quario (b. 1961), an alpine racer who, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, earned four World Cup wins and fifteen podiums, all in slalom.[20]
Brignone lives in La Salle, Aosta Valley.
She was engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.[21]
World Cup results
Season titles
| Season | |
| Discipline | |
| 2020 | Overall |
|---|---|
| Giant slalom | |
| Combined | |
| 2022 | Super-G |
| 2025 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| Giant slalom |
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 | ||
| 2018 | 27 | 11 | 50 | 5 | 6 | 24 | ||
| 2019 | 28 | 6 | 39 | 5 | 8 | 21 | ||
| 2020 | 29 | 36 | ||||||
| 2021 | 30 | 7 | 28 | 5 | 19 | N/a | 7 | |
| 2022 | 31 | 38 | 6 | 14 | — | |||
| 2023 | 32 | 4 | 48 | 5 | 14 | N/a | ||
| 2024 | 33 | 54 | 5 | |||||
| 2025 | 34 | — | ||||||
| 2026 | 35 | 59 | — | 34 | 26 | — |
- Standings through 15 March 2026
Race victories
| Total | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| Wins | 37 | — | 17 | 13 | 2 | 5 | — |
| Podiums | 85 | — | 42 | 27 | 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, United States | 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, United States | 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 | 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 10 victories (5 GS, 3 SG, 2 DH) |
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 | |
| 8 March 2025 | Åre, Sweden | Giant slalom | |
| 14 March 2025 | La Thuile, Italy | 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 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 16 | ||||||
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 26 | 21 | 85 |
| 10 | 28 | 42 | 6 | 85 | ||||||||||||
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 | N/a |
Olympic results
| Year | ||||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team combined |
Team event | |
| 2010 | 19 | — | 18 | — | — | — | N/a | N/a |
| 2014 | 23 | DNF2 | DNF1 | — | — | 11 | ||
| 2018 | 27 | — | 3 | 6 | DNF | 8 | 5 | |
| 2022 | 31 | DNF2 | 2 | 7 | — | 3 | 8 | |
| 2026 | 35 | — | 1 | 1 | 10 | N/a | — | N/a |
National titles
Brignone has won nine national championships in individual events at senior level.[22][23]
- 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
- ^ "Olimpiadi Invernali Pyeongchang 2018" (in Italian). carabinieri.it. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "La sciatrice azzurra con record di vittorie, Federica Brignone, e la sua lotta per l'ambiente". elle.com. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
- ^ "Federica Brignone la tigre delle nevi". mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it. mediaset.it. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
- ^ "Brignone: l'Influenza, la voglia di rinunciare, la biografia di Kimi Raikkonen. Così è arrivata la vittoria al gigante del Sestriere". 22 February 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "World Trophy (1985-2008)/World Championships (2009 on)". skiracing.com. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "Federica Brignone Olympic Profile | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Federica Brignone: Italy's alpine skiing champion enters record books with Beijing 2022 'dream'". olympics.com.
- ^ "Federica Brignone shares her mantra: 'You only live once'". olympics.com.
- ^ "Italy's Brignone unsure of Milan-Cortina 'dream'". MSN. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ Giorgio La Bruzzo (16 February 2026). "Brignone incredula: "Ancora mi chiedo come sia potuto succedere tutto questo"". it:Italpress (in Italian). Retrieved 22 February 2026.
E a Cortina hanno vinto: oro in super-G e poi in gigante, due titoli in una stessa Olimpiade come solo Alberto Tomba a Calgary 1988 era riuscito a fare nello sci alpino.
- ^ "Federica Brignone puts season on hold for ankle surgery". FIS Alpine. 13 December 2012.
- ^ "Brignone ARGENTO nel gigante - Rai Sport".
- ^ "Italy's Brignone wins women's giant slalom world gold". Reuters. 13 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Austrian gold at the skiing worlds in Austria finally pumps up the host nation". APNews. 6 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ "Federica Brignone breaks left leg in Italian Championships giant slalom crash". nbcsports.com. 4 April 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "La "sfida impossibile" di Federica Brignone nella stagione di Milano Cortina 2026: "Non credo tornerò come prima, ma lavoro per farlo il prima possibile" · Sci alpino". olympics.com. olympics.com. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ "Federica Brignone e il programma per il ritorno sugli sci in vista di Milano-Cortina 2026: quali gare salterà". corrieredellosport.it. corrieredellosport.it. 20 October 2025. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ FIS-ski.com – Maria-Rosa Quario – International Ski and Snowboard Federation. accessed 28 December 2011
- ^ "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.
- ^ "ALBO D'ORO CAMPIONATI ITALIANI SCI ALPINO". sportflash24.it (in Italian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ "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 InterSportStats
- 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)