Sofia Goggia

Sofia Goggia (; born 15 November 1992) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specialises in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She is a three-time Olympic downhill medalistgold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first one for an Italian womanand four-time World Cup downhill title winner (2018, 2021–2023).

Career The Italian President Sergio Mattarella and the alpine skier Sofia Goggia in 2026 in Quirinale.

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 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. 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. She was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, and won the World Cup season title in downhill, edging out Lindsey Vonn by three points. The sporting achievements of the season earned her a nomination for the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year.

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 She won her first race of the season since her comeback from the injury in the ladies' downhill at Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 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 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.

In December 2020, Goggia claimed her first World Cup downhill victory in almost two years on the Oreiller-Killy slope in Val d’Isère, France, a day after a runner-up finish on the same hill in the first downhill race of the season. She continued her podium-topping year in the discipline in January 2021, with a first place in St. Anton, Austria, and back-to-back victories on the Mont Lachaux course in Crans-Montana. By winning four consecutive downhill races, Goggia became the first woman to achieve this feat since Vonn in 2018. On 31 January, while skiing down to the valley after the cancelled super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Goggia fell on the wet snow, breaking a bone in her right knee. The injury forced her to miss the home World Championships in Cortina – started just a week after the fall – and two World Cup downhill races. She back training in early March, planning to defend her downhill standings lead in the last event of the season in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. On 17 March, Goggia became for the second time in career World Cup downhill champion, after heavy snowfall forced the cancellation of the race.

In early December 2021, Goggia won all three races in Lake Louise for her first career "hat-trick", joining Vonn (2011, 2012, 2015) and Katja Seizinger (1997) as the only women to win both downhills and super-G in the classic Canadian venue. In October 2021, Goggia was named as Italy's flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. On 23 January 2022, Goggia suffered a knee injury after a crash in the Cortina d'Ampezzo Super-G. She immediately started physical rehab with the aim of returning in time to defend her Olympic downhill title in mid-February. Goggia traveled to Beijing aiming to take part in the downhill, but pulled out from her flag-bearing duties in the opening ceremony on 4 February. On 15 February, despite all setbacks, she won silver in downhill – her second consecutive Olympic medal in that event. After the Olympics, Goggia did not enjoy much success in the remaining World Cup events, but nonetheless won the downhill cup once again with her strong early season results (4 victories and a third place).

In the 2022–23 season, Goggia won five of the nine downhill races contested, also finishing three times on the podium in second place. At the World Cup finals in Soldeu, Andorra, she won her fourth crystal globe in the discipline, the third consecutive. At the 2023 World Championships in Méribel, France, Goggia was a strong favourite for the downhill race, however, she was disqualified for straddling a gate.

On 6 February 2026, during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Goggia served as the final torchbearer, lighting the Olympic cauldron at Cortina d’Ampezzo, while Italian former Olympic champions Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni simultaneously lit the cauldron in Milan. Two days later, she won the bronze medal in the women’s downhill on the Olimpia delle Tofane, becoming the first athlete ever to win three consecutive Olympic medals in alpine skiing downhill. In the 2025–26 season Goggia won the Super-G crystal globe at the World Cup Finals in Lillehammer, Norway, securing her first in the discipline and adding to her four previous downhill titles.

Injuries The career of the Bergamo athlete has been studded with numerous injuries. 2010: as a teenager, she tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of both knees in two different crashes. February 2012: she stretched both collateral ligaments in her left knee and fractured the tibial plateau during a Europa Cup race. December 2013: Goggia tore anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in a downhill crash at Lake Louise, Canada. She returned the following season but cut her campaign short again with knee problems in January 2015. October 2018: she fractured the fibular malleolus of her right leg during a training session in Hintertux, Austria. February 2020: a compound radius fracture of the left arm on the Garmisch-Partenkirchen track puts an end to her competitive season. January 2021: compound fracture of the lateral tibial plateau of the right knee coming down from a track to return to the hotel, again in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. January 2022: a crash in the super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo resulted in a sprained left knee, with a partial cruciate ligament injury already operated in 2013, a small fracture of the fibula and a muscular tendon injury. December 2022: During the first downhill of St. Moritz on 16 December 2022 she broke her hand impacting the ground in a push-up shortly after the start of the race, despite this she finished the race 2nd. She runs to Milan to have surgery and the day after she wins the second downhill. February 2024: Goggia fractured the tibia and tibial malleolus of the right leg falling during a giant slalom training session in Ponte di Legno, Italy.

All these injuries did not prevent her from winning 29 World Cup races, finishing third overall in the World Cup standings in 2017 and 2025, claiming four World Cup downhill season titles and one in Super-G, earning two medals at the World Championships, winning Olympic downhill gold at PyeongChang 2018, and adding two more Olympic downhill medals — silver at Beijing 2022 and bronze at Milano Cortina 2026.

World Cup results Sofia Goggia receives, on 23 December 2021, from the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella the Italian flag that the Italian athlete should have carried, as flagbarear at the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, but she was forced to give up due to an injury and was replaced by her fellow citizen from Bergamo, Michela Moioli.

Season titles 5 titles – (4 DH, 1 SG)

Season standings

Race victories TotalSlalomGiant slalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedParallel Wins 29 — — 10 19 — — Podiums 69 — 5 24 39 1 — SeasonDateLocationDiscipline 120174 March 2017 Jeongseon, South Korea Downhill 25 March 2017 Super-G 3201814 January 2018 Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Downhill 419 January 2018 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 515 March 2018 Åre, Sweden Super-G 6201923 February 2019 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 7202014 December 2019 St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 8202119 December 2020 Val d'Isère, France Downhill 99 January 2021 St. Anton, Austria Downhill 1022 January 2021 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 1123 January 2021 Downhill 1220223 December 2021 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 134 December 2021 Downhill 145 December 2021 Super-G 1518 December 2021 Val d'Isère, France Downhill 1619 December 2021 Super-G 1722 January 2022 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 1820232 December 2022 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 193 December 2022 Downhill 2017 December 2022 St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 2120 January 2023 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 2226 February 2023 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 2320248 December 2023 St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 2413 January 2024 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Downhill 25202515 December 2024 Beaver Creek, United States Super-G 2618 January 2025 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 27202621 December 2025 Val d'Isère, France Super-G 281 March 2026 Soldeu, Andorra Super-G 2922 March 2026 Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G

World Championship results

Olympic results