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
Born (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990
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
Seasons16 – (2008–2023)
Wins21 – (8 GS, 8 SG, 5 AC)
Podiums56
Overall titles1 – (2020)
Discipline titles3 – (GS & AC, 2020;
       SG, 2022)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Italy Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 8 12 9
Super-G 8 4 4
Downhill 0 4 1
Combined 5 1 0
Total 21 21 14
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 place2022 BeijingGiant slalom
Bronze medal – third place2018 PyeongchangGiant slalom
Bronze medal – third place2022 BeijingCombined
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 MéribelCombined
Silver medal – second place2011 Garmisch-PartenkirchenGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2023 MéribelGiant slalom
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place2009 Garmisch-PartenkirchenCombined
Silver medal – second place2010 Mont BlancGiant slalom

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,[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 January 2023, Brignone has 21 World Cup victories and 53 podiums, with 28 in giant slalom, fifteen in super-G, four in downhill, and six 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.[10]

She has been engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.[11]

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
20101943—12————
20112026—544—36
2012212055649—20
   2013 ^22103————30
20142331509———
2015242039717——
201625839464317
20172654648272
201827115056243
20192863958211
20202913612313
2021307285219—7
2022313386114—
2023324485214—
^ Season-ending surgery in December 2012

Race victories
Total Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
Wins21—88—5—
Podiums56—291656—
Source:[12]
Season
Date Location Discipline
201624 October 2015Austria Sölden, AustriaGiant slalom
27 February 2016Andorra Soldeu, AndorraSuper-G
2017 24 January 2017Italy Kronplatz, ItalyGiant slalom
24 February 2017 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandCombined
19 March 2017United States Aspen, USAGiant slalom
2018 29 December 2017Austria Lienz, AustriaGiant slalom
13 January 2018Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, AustriaSuper-G
4 March 2018 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandCombined
201924 November 2018United States Killington, USAGiant slalom
24 February 2019 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandCombined
2020
5 victories
(2 GS, 2 AC, 1 SG)		 17 December 2019France Courchevel, FranceGiant slalom
12 January 2020Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, AustriaCombined
18 January 2020Italy Sestriere, ItalyGiant slalom
2 February 2020Russia Rosa Khutor, RussiaSuper-G
23 February 2020 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandCombined
202128 February 2021Italy Val di Fassa, ItalySuper-G
2022
4 victories
(3 SG, 1 GS)		 12 December 2021 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper-G
16 January 2022Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, AustriaSuper-G
30 January 2022Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanySuper-G
20 March 2022France Méribel, FranceGiant slalom
202314 January 2023Austria St. Anton, AustriaSuper-G

Podiums
Season Podiums
Downhill Super G Giant slalom Combined Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Σ
2010 1 001 1
2011 1 010 1
2012 31 031 4
2013 000 0
2014 000 0
2015 1 001 1
2016 1 14 204 6
2017 1 21 11 321 6
2018 1 1 11 1 311 5
2019 1 11 1 211 4
2020 21 12 21 2 551 11
2021 12 2 122 5
2022 3 11 410 5
2023 1 12 21 151 7
Total 041 844 8129 510 212114 56
5 16 29 6 56

World Championship results
Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
201120DNF12———
201322Injured: did not compete
20152419DNF1———
2017262448—7
201928—510—6
202130DNF1DNF110—DNF2
202332—28—1

Olympic results
Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
201019—18———
201423DNF2DNF1——11
201827—36DNF8
202231DNF227—3

National titles

Brignone has won nine national championships at individual senior level.[13][14]

See also

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. 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. FIS-ski.com – Maria-Rosa Quario – accessed 28 December 2011
  11. "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.
  12. "Sci: Brignone show, vince superG di Garmisch. 'Ora concentrati sui Giochi'". ansa.it. ansa.it. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  13. "ALBO D'ORO CAMPIONATI ITALIANI SCI ALPINO". sportflash24.it (in Italian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  14. "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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