Federica Brignone


Federica Brignone 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, and again in 2025, 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 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.
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Ski racing

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 [FIS Alpine World Ski Championships FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011|2011 – Women's giant slalom|giant slalom]. In December 2012, Brignone underwent surgery on her right ankle to remove a bothersome cyst, and missed the rest of the 2013 season.
In the 2016 season Brignone won her first two World Cup races. During the 2017 World Cup finals at 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 [Alpine skiing at the 2017–18 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup|2018 Winter Olympics|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, 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.
At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Brignone won the silver medal in giant slalom and the bronze medal in combined.
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 six races, her best tally so far.
At the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Brignone won the gold medal in giant slalom and silver in super-G. 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 Lara Gut-Behrami and Sofia Goggia.
At the Italian ski championships in Moena, Val di Fassa 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.
As of October 2025, Federica Brignone is still recovering from the serious injury she sustained last spring. On 18 October 2025, she received the Athlete of the Year award from the Italian Winter Sports Federation for her victories and performances at the 2024–25 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.

Personal life

Brignone, born in Milan, Lombardy and raised in Aosta Valley, is the daughter of Maria Rosa Quario, 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 La Salle, Aosta Valley.

World Cup results

Season titles

  • 7 titles –
Season-
SeasonDiscipline
2020Overall
2020Giant slalom
2020Combined
2022Super-G
2025Overall
2025Downhill
2025Giant slalom

National titles

Brignone has won nine national championships at individual senior level.