Federica Brignone


Federica Brignone is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. Brignone won the 2020 World Cup overall title, becoming the first italian female skier to achieve this feat. She is also an Olympic and World Championship medalist.

Biography

Born in Milan, Lombardy, she is the daughter of Maria Rosa Quario, a former World Cup racer in the early 1980s who had four World Cup wins and fifteen podiums, all in slalom. Brignone made her World Cup debut in December 2007 at age 17, 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.
In 2017 Brignone won the giant slalom race at the World Cup Finals in Aspen, leading an Italian hat-trick and triumphing ahead of teammates Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino. Brignone was part of the podium in two other times when Italian athletes took the top three places in a women's World Cup race: a second place in Bad Kleinkirchheim in 2018 and a third place in Bansko in 2020, both downhill events.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Brignone won the bronze medal in the giant slalom for her first Olympic medal.
In the 2019–2020 season Brignone earned the overall crystal globe with 1378 points – ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin with 1225 and Petra Vlhova with 1189 – becoming the first and only woman to win World Cup for Italy. With 11 seasonal podiums of which 5 victories Brignone also won the Giant Slalom and the Alpine Combined globes.
Through March 2020, she has 15 World Cup victories and 39 podiums, with 22 in giant slalom.

Personal life

She is engaged with the French skier Nicolas Raffort.

World Cup results

Season titles

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2020Overall
2020Giant Slalom
2020Combined
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Season standings

Race podiums

Olympic results