Federica Brignone

Federica Brignone (; 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, 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. 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.

Ski racing 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, 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.

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 and silver in super-G. 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, 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.

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.

Brignone lives in La Salle, Aosta Valley.

She was engaged to French skier Nicolas Raffort.

World Cup results

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 standings

Race victories TotalSlalomGiant slalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedParallel Wins 37 — 17 13 2 5 — Podiums 85 — 42 27 10 6 —

Podiums SeasonPodiums Downhill Super-G Giant slalom Combined Total Σ2010 1 00 1 12011 1 01 0 12012 3 1 03 1 42013 0 0 0 02014 00 0 02015 1 0 0 1 12016 1 1 4 20 4 62017 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 62018 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 52019 1 11 1 21 1 42020 2 1 12 21 2 55 1 112021 1 2 2 12 2 52022 3 11 4 10 52023 1 12 2 1 1 5 1 72024 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 6 5 2 132025 2 1 3 4 5 1 10 1 5 162026 0 0 0 0 Total 2 5 3 13 6 8 17 15 10 5 1 0 37 26 2185 10 28 42685

World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombined 2011 20 DNF1 2 — — — 2013 22Injured: did not compete 2015 2419 DNF1 — — — 2017 2624 4 8 — 7 2019 28— 5 10 — 6 2021 30 DNF1 DNF1 10 — DNF2202332—28—1202534—1210rowspan="1"

Olympic results

National titles Brignone has won nine national championships in individual events at senior level.

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