Federica Brignone

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Nickname(s)
Tigre delle Nevi[1][2]
Freccia di La Salle[3]
Born (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 (age 35)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Federica Brignone
Brignone in 2018 in Aosta
Personal information
Nickname(s)
Tigre delle Nevi[1][2]
Freccia di La Salle[3]
Born (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 (age 35)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
Country Italy
Skiing career
DisciplinesGiant slalom, super-G,
combined, downhill, slalom
ClubCS Carabinieri[4]
World Cup debut28 December 2007 (age 17)
Websitefedericabrignone.com
Olympics
Teams5 – (2010–2026)
Medals5 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams7 – (2011, 2015–2025)
Medals5 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons19 – (2008–2026)
Wins37 – (17 GS, 13 SG, 5 AC, 2 DH)
Podiums85 – (42 GS, 27 SG, 10 DH, 6 AC)
Overall titles2 – (2020, 2025)
Discipline titles5 – (GS – 2020, 2025; AC – 2020;
      SG – 2022; DH – 2025)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Italy Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 17 15 10
Super-G 13 6 8
Downhill 2 5 3
Combined 5 1 0
Total 37 27 21
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 1 2
World Championships 2 3 0
Total 4 4 2
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2026 Milano CortinaSuper-G
Gold medal – first place2026 Milano CortinaGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2022 BeijingGiant slalom
Bronze medal – third place2018 PyeongchangGiant slalom
Bronze medal – third place2022 BeijingCombined
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 MéribelCombined
Gold medal – first place2025 SaalbachGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2011 Garmisch-PartenkirchenGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2023 MéribelGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2025 SaalbachSuper-G
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place2009 Garmisch-PartenkirchenCombined
Silver medal – second place2010 Mont BlancGiant slalom
Last updated on: 15 February 2026

Federica Brignone (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːka briɲˈɲoːne]; born 14 July 1990) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer, who is the current Olympic champion in giant slalom and super-G, as well as world champion in giant slalom.

Brignone has competed in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on giant slalom, super-G and, more recently, downhill. Brignone won the World Cup overall title in 2020, becoming the first Italian female to achieve this feat,[5][6] and again in 2025, as well as five discipline titles between 2020 and 2025. She has won 37 World Cup races, five Olympic medals and five World Championships medals. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in giant slalom and a bronze in combined.[7][8][9][10] At the 2025 World Championships, she won a gold medal in giant slalom and a silver medal in super-G. After a severe injury in April 2025, she made a comeback just before the 2026 Winter Olympics, during which she won gold medals both in giant slalom and super-G, becoming the Italian female alpine skier to have won the most Olympic medals (five), as well as the only Italian alpine skier to have won two gold medals in the same edition of the Olympic Games along with Alberto Tomba.[11]

Brignone made her World Cup debut at the age of 17 in December 2007, during the 2007–08 season, and 2009–10 was her first full season on the World Cup circuit. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, her first, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst,[12] and missed the rest of the 2012–13 season.

In the 2015–16 season, Brignone won her first two World Cup races. During the 2016–2017 finals in Aspen, Brignone led an Italian podium sweep in giant slalom, with teammates Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino, ending the season with three victories. Brignone 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 Brignone won her first Olympic medal: the bronze in giant slalom.

In the 2019–20 season, Brignone won the overall crystal globe, ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin, who had not ran since January due to her father's death, and Petra Vlhová, 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.

Brignone won two medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing: silver in giant slalom and bronze in combined.[13]

At the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel–Méribel she won the gold medal in combined, and the silver medal in giant slalom. In the following 2023–24 season, she won six races – her best tally up to that point.

At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach Brignone won the gold medal in giant slalom[14][15] and silver in super-G.[16] During the 2024–25 season, she won ten races – her best tally ever – including her two first downhill victories, and the overall, the downhill, and the giant slalom titles.

In April 2025, in the giant slalom race of the Italian ski championships in Moena, Fassa Valley, Brignone sustained serious injuries in a crash. A CT scan revealed multiple fractures of the calf and tibial plateau, as well as a tear of her left anterior cruciate ligament,[17] that would force her to miss most of the 2025–26 season. In October 2025, she was awarded as Athlete of the Year by the Italian Winter Sports Federation.[18][19]

In January 2026 Brignone returned to World Cup racing. Subsequently, she participated in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, where, at the Olimpia delle Tofane ski course, she won gold medals in giant slalom and super-G.

Personal life

Born in Milan, Lombardy, and raised in Aosta Valley, Brignone is the daughter of Maria Rosa Quario (b. 1961), an alpine racer who, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, earned four World Cup wins and fifteen podiums, all in slalom.[20]

Brignone lives in La Salle, Aosta Valley.

She was engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.[21]

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

  • 7 titles – (2 Overall, 2 GS, 1 AC, 1 SG, 1 DH)
Season
Discipline
2020 Overall
Giant slalom
Combined
2022 Super-G
2025 Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom

Season standings

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
20101943—12———N/a
20112026—544—36
2012212055649—20
201322103————30
20142331509———
2015242039717——
201625839464317
20172654648272nd place, silver medalist(s)
201827115056243rd place, bronze medalist(s)
20192863958211st place, gold medalist(s)
2020291st place, gold medalist(s)361st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
20213072852nd place, silver medalist(s)19N/a7
2022313rd place, bronze medalist(s)3861st place, gold medalist(s)14—
20233244852nd place, silver medalist(s)14N/a
2024332nd place, silver medalist(s)542nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)5
2025341st place, gold medalist(s)—1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
20263562—3426—

Race victories

Total Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
Wins37—171325—
Podiums85—4227106—
Season
Date Location Discipline
2016 24 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, United StatesGiant slalom
2018 29 December 2017Austria Lienz, AustriaGiant slalom
13 January 2018Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, AustriaSuper-G
4 March 2018 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandCombined
2019 24 November 2018United States Killington, United StatesGiant 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
2021 28 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
2023 14 January 2023Austria St. Anton, AustriaSuper-G
2024
6 victories
(4 GS, 2 SG)		 2 December 2023Canada Tremblant, CanadaGiant slalom
3 December 2023Giant slalom
17 December 2023France Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
3 March 2024Norway Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
9 March 2024Sweden Åre, SwedenGiant slalom
17 March 2024Austria Saalbach, AustriaGiant slalom
2025
10 victories
(5 GS, 3 SG,
2 DH)		 26 October 2024Austria Sölden, AustriaGiant slalom
28 December 2024Austria Semmering, AustriaGiant slalom
11 January 2025Austria St. Anton, AustriaDownhill
19 January 2025Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalySuper-G
25 January 2025Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanyDownhill
21 February 2025Italy Sestriere, ItalyGiant slalom
22 February 2025Giant slalom
2 March 2025Norway Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
8 March 2025Sweden Åre, SwedenGiant slalom
14 March 2025Italy La Thuile, ItalySuper-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
2024 11 22 421 652 13
2025 21 34 51 1015 16
2026 000 0
Total 253 1368 171510 510 372621 85
10 28 42 6 85

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
202534—1210N/a

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined Team
combined		 Team
event
201019—18———N/aN/a
201423DNF2DNF1——11
201827—36DNF85
202231DNF227—38
202635—1110N/a—N/a

National titles

Brignone has won nine national championships in individual events at senior level.[22][23]

See also

References

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