Federica Brignone (born 14 July 1990) is an Italian

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. She competes in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on

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and

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. Brignone won the World Cup overall title in 2020, becoming the first Italian female to achieve this feat, and again in

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, as well as five discipline titles between 2020 and 2025. She has won 37 World Cup races, three Olympic medals and five World Championships medals. At the

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, she won a silver medal in

and a bronze in combined. At the 2025 World Championships, she won a gold medal in

and a silver medal in

Ski racing

Brignone made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December

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, and her first full season on the World Cup circuit was in

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. At her first

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

, Brignone won the silver medal in

. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst, and missed the rest of the

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

season. In the 2016 season Brignone won her first two World Cup races. During the 2017 World Cup finals at

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, Brignone led an Italian podium sweep in giant slalom, with teammates

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and

Marta Bassino Marta Bassino (born 27 February 1996) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She competes in all disciplines, with a focus in giant slalom, in which she has six World Cup wins. Biography Born in Cuneo, Piedmont, Bassino lives in Borgo ...

, ending the season with three victories. Brignone was part of two other hat tricks by Italy, both in downhill: as runner-up at

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, and a third place at

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. At the

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, Brignone won her first Olympic medal, the bronze in

. In the 2020 World Cup, Brignone earned the

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crystal globe with 1378 points, ahead of

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(1225), who had not ran since January due to her father's death, and

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(1189), 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. At the

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, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom and the bronze medal in combined. At the 2023 World Championships in

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–

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, she won the gold medal in combined and the silver medal in

, twelve years after Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011. In the following 2024 World Cup, she won six races, her best tally so far. At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Brignone won the gold medal in

and silver in

. During the 2025 World Cup, she won ten races, her new best tally, including her two first downhill victories, and, above all, the overall, downhill and giant slalom titles. In the overall standings, she obtained 1,594 points, ahead of

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(1,272) and Sofia Goggia (931). At the Italian ski championships in

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she crashed heavily in the giant slalom on 3 April 2025 and, as a CT scan revealed, sustained multiple fractures of the calf and tibial plateau, also tearing her anterior cruciate ligament, on the left leg.

Personal life

Brignone, born in

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and grown up in

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, is the daughter of

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(b. 1961), an alpine racer in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who had four World Cup wins and fifteen podiums, all in slalom. She has been engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort. Brignone lives in

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World Cup results

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Season titles

* 7 titles – (2 Overall, 2 GS, 1 AC, 1 SG, 1 DH)

Season standings

Race victories

Podiums

World Championship results

Olympic results

National titles

Brignone has won nine national championships at individual

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level. *

Italian Alpine Ski Championships The Italian Alpine Ski Championships () are the national championships in alpine skiing, organised every year by the Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali (FISI). 2023 edition held in La Thuile, Aosta Valley from 21 ti 25 March 2023. Results All ...

**Super-G: 2017, 2023 (2) **Giant slalom: 2011, 2017, 2018 (3) **Slalom: 2021 (1) **Combined: 2016, 2017, 2023 (3)

References

External links

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