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Sofia Goggia
Goggia in 2019 at Palazzo Chigi
Personal information
Born (1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 (age 33)
Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Skiing career
Country Italy
SportAlpine skiing
ClubG.S. Fiamme Gialle
DisciplinesDownhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
World Cup debut
28 December 2011
(age 19)
Olympics
Teams3 – (2018, 2022, 2026)
Medals3 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams5 – (2013, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025)
Medals2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons15 – (2012–2026)
Wins29 – (19 DH, 10 SG)
Podiums69 – (39 DH, 24 SG,
          5 GS, 1 AC)
Overall titles
0 – (3rd in 2017 and 2025)
Discipline titles
5 – (DH – 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023; SG – 2026)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 0 3 2
Super-G 10 8 6
Downhill 19 13 7
Combined 0 0 1
Total 29 24 16
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 1
World Championships 0 1 1
Total 1 2 2
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2018 PyeongchangDownhill
Silver medal – second place2022 BeijingDownhill
Bronze medal – third place2026 Milano CortinaDownhill
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2019 ÅreSuper-G
Bronze medal – third place2017 St. MoritzGiant slalom

Sofia Goggia (Italian pronunciation: [soˈfiːa ˈɡɔddʒa]; 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 medalist – gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first one for an Italian woman – and four-time World Cup downhill title winner (2018, 2021–2023).

Career

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The Italian President Sergio Mattarella and the alpine skier Sofia Goggia in 2026 in Quirinale.
Goggia at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2017

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[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] She was the gold medalist in the downhill at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea,[4] 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.[5]

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 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.[6] 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.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] In October 2021, Goggia was named as Italy's flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.[12] 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.[13] 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).[14]

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.[15]

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.[citation needed] 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

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The career of the Bergamo athlete has been studded with numerous injuries.[16]

  1. 2010: as a teenager, she tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of both knees in two different crashes.
  2. February 2012: she stretched both collateral ligaments in her left knee and fractured the tibial plateau during a Europa Cup race.
  3. 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.
  4. October 2018: she fractured the fibular malleolus of her right leg during a training session in Hintertux, Austria.
  5. February 2020: a compound radius fracture of the left arm on the Garmisch-Partenkirchen track puts an end to her competitive season.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.[17][18]
  9. 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

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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.[19]
Goggia in a spectacular jump at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2018

Season titles

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  • 5 titles – (4 DH, 1 SG)
Season Discipline
2018 Downhill
2021 Downhill
2022 Downhill
2023 Downhill
2026 Super-G

Season standings

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Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
20142185——30——
201522123——58——
20162338—22203235
2017243rd place, bronze medalist(s)—3rd place, bronze medalist(s)62nd place, silver medalist(s)8
2018254—2251st place, gold medalist(s)17
  2019[a]2622—43147—
20202711—19817—
  2021[b]289—13181st place, gold medalist(s)N/a
2022296—3551st place, gold medalist(s)
2023305——111st place, gold medalist(s)
  2024[c]317—14103rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2025323rd place, bronze medalist(s)—173rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2026334—191st place, gold medalist(s)7
  1. ↑ Sidelined by ankle injury until late January 2019
  2. ↑ Injured in late January 2021, out for the rest of the season
  3. ↑ Injured in early February 2024, out for the rest of the season

Race victories

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Total Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
Wins29——1019——
Podiums69—524391—
# Season
Date Location Discipline
1 2017 4 March 2017South Korea Jeongseon, South KoreaDownhill
2 5 March 2017Super-G
3 2018 14 January 2018Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, AustriaDownhill
4 19 January 2018Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
5 15 March 2018Sweden Åre, SwedenSuper-G
6 2019 23 February 2019 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandDownhill
7 2020 14 December 2019 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper-G
8 2021 19 December 2020France Val d'Isère, FranceDownhill
9 9 January 2021Austria St. Anton, AustriaDownhill
10 22 January 2021 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandDownhill
11 23 January 2021Downhill
12 2022 3 December 2021Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
13 4 December 2021Downhill
14 5 December 2021Super-G
15 18 December 2021France Val d'Isère, FranceDownhill
16 19 December 2021Super-G
17 22 January 2022Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
18 2023 2 December 2022Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
19 3 December 2022Downhill
20 17 December 2022 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandDownhill
21 20 January 2023Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
22 26 February 2023 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandDownhill
23 2024 8 December 2023 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper-G
24 13 January 2024Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, AustriaDownhill
25 2025 15 December 2024United States Beaver Creek, United StatesSuper-G
26 18 January 2025Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
27 2026 21 December 2025France Val d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
28 1 March 2026Andorra Soldeu, AndorraSuper-G
29 22 March 2026Norway  Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G

World Championship results

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Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
201320——4227
201522injured, did not compete
201724—3104DNF2
201926—DNF2215—
202128injured, did not compete
202330——11DSQDNS2
202532—DNF1516N/a

Olympic results

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Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined Team
combined
201825—11111DNSN/a
202229———2—
202633—10DNF3N/aDNF1

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Mondiali di Schladming, la bergamasca Goggia sfiora la grande impresa" (in Italian). bergamonews.it. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Sofia Goggia interview after first victory – Jeongseon 2017 Downhill". youtube.com. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  3. ↑ "Sci, discesa a Cortina: Goggia è la regina! Battute Vonn e Shiffrin". gazzetta.it. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ↑ Final results
  5. ↑ "Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year 2018 nominees". Laureus. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Stephanie Venier wins crash-interrupted downhill World Cup, Goggia 2nd". ESPN. Associated Press. 27 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo awarded Olympic Winter Games 2026". olympicchannel.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  8. ↑ "Goggia and Rebensburg out for the season after super-G falls". insidethegames.biz. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  9. ↑ "Four in a row for Goggia with second downhill win of weekend in Crans Montana". olympicchannel.com. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Fighting for DH title, Sofia Goggia eyes Lenzerheide start". skiracing.com. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Sofia Goggia hat-trick in Lake Louise". fis-ski.com. 5 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  12. ↑ "Sofia Goggia portabandiera nella Cerimonia di Apertura, Michela Moioli alfiere nella cerimonia di chiusura". coni.it. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  13. ↑ "Sofia Goggia still eyes Beijing 2022 participation despite Super-G crash in Cortina". olympics.com. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Sofia Goggia wins third downhill Crystal Globe in Courchevel". olympics.com. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "Flury in dreamworld as she shocks field by snatching downhill gold". fis-ski.com. 11 February 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  16. ↑ "Season over for Sofia Goggia". fis-ski.com. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  17. ↑ "'YEAH I BROKE IT!' - SOFIA GOGGIA CONFIRMS BROKEN HAND AFTER CLASH WITH GATE ON DOWNHILL AT ST MORITZ". eurosport.com. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  18. ↑ "Sofia Goggia wins World Cup downhill in St Moritz despite two broken fingers". bbc.com. 17 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  19. ↑ "Goggia, la scelta è stata fatta: rinuncia al ruolo di portabandiera, arrivo in Cina ritardato e si prova per le gare". neveitalia.it (in Italian). 25 January 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
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