Federica Brignone

Federica Brignone (born 14 July 1990) 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.[1]

Federica Brignone

Alpine skier
Brignone in 2017.
Disciplines	Giant slalom, Super-G, Combined, Downhill, Slalom
Club	CS Carabinieri
Born	(1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
World Cup debut	28 December 2007 (age 17)
Website	federicabrignone.com
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2010, 2014, 2018)
Medals	1 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	4 – (2011, 2015–2019)
Medals	1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	13 – (2008–2020)
Wins	15 – (7 GS, 3 SG, 5 AC)
Podiums	39 – (22 GS, 7 SG, 6 AC, 4 DH)
Overall titles	1 – (2020)
Discipline titles	2 – (GS & AC, 2020)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing  Italy International alpine ski competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 1 World Championships 0 1 0 Total 0 1 1 World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Giant slalom 7 7 8 Super-G 3 2 2 Downhill 0 3 1 Combined 5 1 0 Total 15 13 11 Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Giant slalom World Championships 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant slalom Junior World Championships 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Combined 2010 Mont Blanc Giant slalom

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.[2] 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,[3] 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.[4]

World Cup results

Brignone during Garmisch-Partenkirchen Kandahar downhill in 2017

Season titles

• 3 titles – (1 Overall, 1 GS, 1 AC)

	Season
		Discipline
	2020	Overall
		Giant Slalom
		Combined

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

Race podiums

• 15 wins (7 GS, 3 SG, 5 AC)
• 39 podiums (22 GS, 7 SG, 6 AC, 4 DH)

Season
	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2010	28 Nov 2009	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
2011	6 Feb 2011	Arber-Zwiesel, Germany	Giant slalom	2nd
2012	28 Dec 2011	Lienz, Austria	Giant slalom	2nd
	21 Jan 2012	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	9 Mar 2012	Åre, Sweden	Giant slalom	2nd
	18 Mar 2012	Schladming, Austria	Giant slalom	3rd
2015	29 Nov 2014	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
2016	24 Oct 2015	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom	1st
	27 Nov 2015	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
	12 Dec 2015	Åre, Sweden	Giant slalom	3rd
	17 Jan 2016	Flachau, Austria	Giant slalom	3rd
	27 Feb 2016	Soldeu, Andorra	Super-G	1st
	7 Mar 2016	Jasná, Slovakia	Giant slalom	3rd
2017	24 Jan 2017	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom	1st
	24 Feb 2017	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Combined	1st
	26 Feb 2017		Combined	2nd
	10 Mar 2017	Squaw Valley, USA	Giant slalom	2nd
	16 Mar 2017	Aspen, USA	Super-G	3rd
	19 Mar 2017		Giant slalom	1st
2018	29 Dec 2017	Lienz, Austria	Giant slalom	1st
	13 Jan 2018	Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria	Super-G	1st
	14 Jan 2018		Downhill	2nd
	23 Jan 2018	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom	3rd
	4 Mar 2018	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Combined	1st
2019	27 Oct 2018	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom	2nd
	24 Nov 2018	Killington, USA	Giant slalom	1st
	24 Feb 2019	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Combined	1st
	14 Mar 2019	Soldeu, Andorra	Super-G	3rd
2020	30 Nov 2019	Killington, USA	Giant Slalom	2nd
	14 Dec 2019	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super-G	2nd
	17 Dec 2019	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	1st
	12 Jan 2020	Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria	Combined	1st
	18 Jan 2020	Sestriere, Italy	Giant slalom	1st
	24 Jan 2020	Bansko, Bulgaria	Downhill	2nd
	25 Jan 2020		Downhill	3rd
	2 Feb 2020	Rosa Khutor, Russia	Super-G	1st
	8 Feb 2020	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Downhill	2nd
	23 Feb 2020	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Combined	1st
	29 Feb 2020	La Thuile, Italy	Super-G	2nd

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

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

See also

• Italian female skiers most successful World Cup race winner

References

1. "World Trophy (1985-2008)/World Championships (2009 on)". skiracing.com. 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
2. FIS-ski.com – Maria-Rosa Quario – accessed 28 December 2011
3. "Federica Brignone puts season on hold for ankle surgery". FIS Alpine. 13 December 2012.
4. "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.

External links

Media related to Federica Brignone at Wikimedia Commons

• Federica Brignone at the International Ski Federation
• Federica Brignone World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
• Federica Brignone at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Federica Brignone at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Federica Brignone at the International Olympic Committee
• Italian Winter Sports Federation – (FISI) – alpine skiing – Federica Brignone – (in Italian)
• Rossignol.com – Federica Brignone
• Official website – (in Italian and English)
• Federica Brignone on Twitter