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Federica Brignone

Brignone in 2018 in Aosta

Personal information
NicknameLa tigre delle nevi
Born14 July 1990 (age 34)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesGiant slalom, super-G, combined, downhill, slalom
ClubCS Carabinieri[1]
World Cup debut28 December 2007 (age 17)
Websitefedericabrignone.com
Olympics
Teams4 – (2010–2022)
Medals3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams7 – (2011, 2015–2025)
Medals5 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons18 – (2008–2025)
Wins34 – (16 GS, 11 SG, 5 AC, 2 DH)
Podiums79 – (40 GS, 23 SG, 10 DH, 6 AC)
Overall titles1 – (2020)
Discipline titles3 – (GS – 2020, AC – 2020,
SG – 2022)

Medal record

Women's alpine skiing
Representing Italy Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 16 14 10
Super-G 11 6 6
Downhill 2 5 3
Combined 5 1 0
Total 34 26 19
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 2
World Championships 2 3 0
Total 2 4 2
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Giant slalom
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Pyeongchang Giant slalom
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Beijing Combined
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Méribel Combined
Gold medal – first place 2025 Saalbach Giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2023 Méribel Giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2025 Saalbach Super-G
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Combined
Silver medal – second place 2010 Mont Blanc Giant slalom

Federica Brignone (born 14 July 1990) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer.

She competes in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on giant slalom and super-G. Brignone won the World Cup overall title in 2020, becoming the first Italian female to achieve this feat,[2][3] as well as three dicpline titles between 2020 and 2022. As of February 2025, she has won 34 World Cup races, three 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.[4][5][6][7] At the 2025 World Championships, she won a gold medal in giant slalom and a silver medal in super-G. She was nicknamed "Tigre delle Nevi" ("Snow Tiger")[8][9] and "Freccia di La Salle"[10] by Italian sports journalists.

Brignone made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 2007, and her first full season on the World Cup circuit was in 2010. At her first World Championships, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst,[11] and missed the rest of the 2013 season.

During the 2017 World Cup finals at Aspen, Brignone led an Italian podium sweep in giant slalom, with teammates Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino. She 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 2020 World Cup, Brignone earned the overall crystal globe with 1378 points, ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin (1225), who had not ran since January due to her father's death, and Petra Vlhová (1189), becoming the first and to date only Italian woman to win 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 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom and the bronze medal in combined.[12]

At the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel–Méribel, she won the gold medal in combined and the silver medal in giant slalom, twelve years after Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011. In the following 2024 World Cup, she won 6 races, her best tally so far.

At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Brignone won the gold medal in giant slalom[13][14] and silver in super-G.[15] During the 2025 World Cup, she has already won seven races, her new best tally, including her two first downhill victories.

Brignone, born in Milan, Lombardy and grown up in Aosta Valley, is the daughter of Maria Rosa Quario (b.1961), an alpine racer in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who had four World Cup wins and fifteen podiums, all in slalom.[16] She has been engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.[17]

Brignone lives in La Salle, Aosta Valley.

Brignone during Garmisch-Partenkirchen Kandahar downhill in 2017
Brignone the day of her victory in World Cup's Giant slalom of Courchevel in 2019.
  • 4 titles – (1 Overall, 1 GS, 1 AC, 1 SG)
Season
Discipline
2020 Overall
Giant slalom
Combined
2022 Super-G
Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
2010 19 43 — 12 — — — —
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 2
2018 27 11 50 5 6 24 3
2019 28 6 39 5 8 21 1
2020 29 1 36 1 2 3 1 3
2021 30 7 28 5 2 19 — 7
2022 31 3 38 6 1 14 —
2023 32 4 48 5 2 14 —
2024 33 2 54 2 2 5
2025 34 1 — 2 2 1
^ Season-ending surgery in December 2012
Standings through 21 February 2025
Total Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
Wins 34 — 16 11 2 5 —
Podiums 79 — 40 23 10 6 —
Season
Date Location Discipline
2016 24 October 2015 Austria Sölden, Austria Giant slalom
27 February 2016 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra Super-G
2017 24 January 2017 Italy Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom
24 February 2017  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
19 March 2017 United States Aspen, USA Giant slalom
2018 29 December 2017 Austria Lienz, Austria Giant slalom
13 January 2018 Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Super-G
4 March 2018  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
2019 24 November 2018 United States Killington, USA Giant slalom
24 February 2019  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
2020
5 victories
(2 GS, 2 AC, 1 SG) 		17 December 2019 France Courchevel, France Giant slalom
12 January 2020 Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Combined
18 January 2020 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom
2 February 2020 Russia Rosa Khutor, Russia Super-G
23 February 2020  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined
2021 28 February 2021 Italy Val di Fassa, Italy Super-G
2022
4 victories
(3 SG, 1 GS) 		12 December 2021  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G
16 January 2022 Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Super-G
30 January 2022 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany[18] Super-G
20 March 2022 France Méribel, France Giant slalom
2023 14 January 2023 Austria St. Anton, Austria Super-G
2024
6 victories
(4 GS, 2 SG) 		2 December 2023 Canada Tremblant, Canada Giant slalom
3 December 2023 Giant slalom
17 December 2023 France Val-d'Isère, France Super-G
3 March 2024 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G
9 March 2024 Sweden Åre, Sweden Giant slalom
17 March 2024 Austria Saalbach, Austria Giant slalom
2025
7 victories
(4 GS, 2 DH, 1 SG)		 26 October 2024 Austria Sölden, Austria Giant slalom
28 December 2024 Austria Semmering, Austria Giant slalom
11 January 2025 Austria St. Anton, Austria Downhill
19 January 2025 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G
25 January 2025 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill
21 February 2025 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom
22 February 2025 Giant slalom
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 0 0 1 1
2011 1 0 1 0 1
2012 3 1 0 3 1 4
2013 0 0 0 0
2014 0 0 0 0
2015 1 0 0 1 1
2016 1 1 4 2 0 4 6
2017 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 6
2018 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 5
2019 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4
2020 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 5 5 1 11
2021 1 2 2 1 2 2 5
2022 3 1 1 4 1 0 5
2023 1 1 2 2 1 1 5 1 7
2024 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 6 5 2 13
2025 2 1 1 2 4 7 0 3 10
Total 2 5 3 11 6 6 16 14 10 5 1 0 34 26 19 79
10 23 40 6 79

World Championship results

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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
2021 30 DNF1 DNF1 10 — DNF2
2023 32 — 2 8 — 1
2025 34 — 1 2 10 —
Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-G Downhill Combined
2010 19 — 18 — — —
2014 23 DNF2 DNF1 — — 11
2018 27 — 3 6 DNF 8
2022 31 DNF2 2 7 — 3

Brignone has won nine national championships at individual senior level.[19][20]

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  4. ^ "Federica Brignone Olympic Profile | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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