Sofia Goggia

Sofia Goggia (Italian pronunciation: [soˈfiːa ˈɡɔddʒa]; born 15 November 1992) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She made her World Cup debut in December 2011[1] and primarily competed on the European Cup circuit until the 2016 World Cup season.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Goggia won the gold medal in the downhill, becoming the first and only woman to win Olympic gold for Italy in the women's downhill.

Sofia Goggia

Alpine skier
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2017
Disciplines	Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom, Combined
Club	G.S. Fiamme Gialle
Born	(1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
World Cup debut	28 December 2011 (age 19)
Olympics
Teams	1 – (2018)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	3 – (2013, 2017, 2019)
Medals	2
World Cup
Seasons	9 – (2012–2020)
Wins	7 – (4 DH, 3 SG)
Podiums	27 – (12 DH, 9 SG, 5 GS, 1 SC)
Discipline titles	1 – (DH, 2018)
Medal record International alpine ski competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 0 0 World Championships 0 1 1 Total 1 1 1 World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Downhill 4 6 2 Super-G 3 4 2 Giant 0 3 2 Combined 0 0 1 Total 7 13 7 Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Downhill World Championships 2019 Åre Super-G 2017 St. Moritz Giant slalom

Biography

With only four career starts in giant slalom (and no finishes) in her World Cup career, Goggia was named to the Italian women's team for the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria. She capitalized on the opportunity and posted two top ten finishes: fourth in the super-G[2] and seventh in the super combined. Goggia attained her first World Cup podium in November 2016, a third place in giant slalom at Killington. She won the bronze medal in the same event at the World Championships in February.

Goggia's first World Cup win came in downhill in March 2017 at Jeongseon, South Korea.[3] She followed it up with a super-G win the following day for her eleventh World Cup podium of the season. It was the fourth time that she gained multiple podiums at the same race venue, and added a fifth with two podiums at the World Cup finals in Aspen. She finished the season with 1197 World Cup points, 13 podiums in four different disciplines and third place overall.

In 2018, she won consecutive World Cup downhills in mid-January at Bad Kleinkirchheim and Cortina d'Ampezzo.[4] She was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea,[5] and won the World Cup season title in downhill, edging out Lindsey Vonn by three points.

A broken ankle in October 2018 caused Goggia to miss most of the World Cup season; she returned in late January 2019 with runner-up finishes in her first two starts at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.[6] She won her first race of the season since her comeback from the injury in the ladies' downhill at Crans-Montana in February.

At the World Championships in Åre, Goggia won the silver medal in the Super-G, 0.02 seconds behind gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin.

In June 2019, the Italian Olympic Committee named Goggia as ambassador for the nation’s bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. On 24 June she was part of the italian delegation at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, where Milan-Cortina were elected as hosts, defeating Stockholm-Åre.

In the 2019–2020 season Goggia achieved two Super-G podiums - a victory in St. Moritz and a second place in Sochi - both together with teammate Federica Brignone. In early February she suffered a fall during the Super-G race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen that caused a fracture in her left arm and the premature end of the season.

World Cup results

Season titles

• 1 titles  – (1 downhill)

Season	Discipline
2018	Downhill

Season standings

Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant  slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2014	21	85	—	—	30	—	—
2015	22	123	—	—	58	—	—
2016	23	38	—	22	20	32	35
2017	24	3	—	3	6	2	8
2018	25	4	—	22	5	1	17
2019	26	22	—	43	14	7	—
2020	27	11	—	19	8	17	—

Race podiums

• 7 wins – (4 DH, 3 SG)
• 27 podiums – (12 DH, 9 SG, 5 GS, 1 SC)

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2017	26 Nov 2016	Killington, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
	2 Dec 2016	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	2nd
	4 Dec 2016		Super-G	3rd
	10 Dec 2016	Sestriere, Italy	Giant slalom	2nd
	16 Dec 2016	Val d'Isère, France	Super combined	3rd
	17 Dec 2016		Downhill	3rd
	7 Jan 2017	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	28 Jan 2017	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill	2nd
	29 Jan 2017		Super-G	2nd
	4 Mar 2017	Jeongseon, South Korea	Downhill	1st
	5 Mar 2017		Super-G	1st
	15 Mar 2017	Aspen, USA	Downhill	3rd
	19 Mar 2017		Giant slalom	2nd
2018	16 Dec 2017	Val d'Isére, France	Super-G	2nd
	17 Dec 2017		Super-G	3rd
	6 Jan 2018	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	3rd
	14 Jan 2018	Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria	Downhill	1st
	19 Jan 2018	Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill	1st
	3 Feb 2018	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Downhill	2nd
	4 Feb 2018		Downhill	2nd
	14 Mar 2018	Åre, Sweden	Downhill	2nd
	15 Mar 2018		Super-G	1st
2019	26 Jan 2019	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Super-G	2nd
	27 Jan 2019		Downhill	2nd
	23 Feb 2019	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Downhill	1st
2020	14 Dec 2019	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super-G	1st
	2 Feb 2020	Rosa Khutor, Russia	Super-G	2nd

World Championship results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2013	20	—	—	4	22	7
2015	22	did not compete
2017	24	—	3	10	4	DNF2
2019	26	—	DNF2	2	15	—

Olympic results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2018	25	—	11	11	1	DNS

See also

• Italian skiers who closed in top 10 in overall World Cup

References

1. "Coppa del mondo, debutta la bergamasca Sofia Goggia" (in Italian). bergamonews.it. 28 December 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
2. "Mondiali di Schladming, la bergamasca Goggia sfiora la grande impresa" (in Italian). bergamonews.it. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
3. "Sofia Goggia interview after first victory – Jeongseon 2017 Downhill". youtube.com. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
4. "Sci, discesa a Cortina: Goggia è la regina! Battute Vonn e Shiffrin". gazzetta.it. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
5. Final results
6. "Stephanie Venier wins crash-interrupted downhill World Cup, Goggia 2nd". ESPN. Associated Press. 27 January 2019.

External links

• Sofia Goggia at the International Ski Federation
• Sofia Goggia World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
• Sofia Goggia at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Italian Winter Sports Federation – (FISI) – alpine skiing – Sofia Goggia – (in Italian)
• Atomic Skis – athletes – Sofia Goggia