Sofia Goggia

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Sofia Goggia
Alpine skier
Sofia Goggia.jpg
Goggia in 2019 at Palazzo Chigi.
DisciplinesDownhill, Super-G,
Giant slalom, Combined
ClubG.S. Fiamme Gialle
Born (1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 (age 29)
Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
World Cup debut28 December 2011
(age 19)
Olympics
Teams1 – (2018)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams3 – (2013, 2017, 2019)
Medals2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons11 – (2012–2022)
Wins16 – (11 DH, 5 SG)
Podiums38 – (20 DH, 12 SG, 5 GS,
1 AC)
Overall titles0 – (3rd in 2017)
Discipline titles2 – (DH, 2018, 2021)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Italy
International alpine ski competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 0 1 1
Total 1 1 1
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Downhill 11 7 2
Super-G 5 5 2
Giant slalom 0 3 2
Combined 0 0 1
Total 16 15 7
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Downhill
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Åre Super-G
Bronze medal – third place 2017 St. Moritz Giant 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. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Goggia won the gold medal in the downhill, becoming the only woman to win Olympic gold for Italy in that event.

Biography[]

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 2019–2020 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]

On 19 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 finishing in second place on the same hill for the first race of the World Cup 2021 speed 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 downhill races in a row Goggia became the first woman skier to achieve this feat since Vonn in 2018.[9] On January 31, 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 March 17, Goggia became for the second time in career World Cup downhill champion, after heavy snowfall forced the cancellation of the race.

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

Injuries[]

The career of the Bergamo athlete has been studded with numerous injuries.[12]

  1. 2010: as a teenager, she tore the anterior cruciate ligament 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 crociate 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.

All these injuries did not prevent her from winning eleven World Cup victories with a third place in the 2016-17 overall standings, two World Cup season titles in downhill in 2018 and 2021, two medals at the World Championships and the Olympic downhill title at PyeongChang 2018.

World Cup results[]

Season titles[]

  • 2 titles – (2 DH)
FIS Crystal Globe.svg Season Discipline
2018 Downhill
2021 Downhill

Season standings[]

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom 		Super G Downhill Combined
2014 21 85 — — 30 — —
2015 22 123 — — 58 — —
2016 23 38 — 22 20 32 35
2017 24 3 — 3 6 2 8
2018 25 4 — 22 5 1 17
  2019 ^ 26 22 — 43 14 7 —
2020 27 11 — 19 8 17 —
  2021 ^^ 28 9 — 13 18 1 —
2022 29 2 — 30 1 1 —
Standings through 23 December 2021
^ Sidelined by ankle injury until late January 2019
^^ Injured in late January 2021, out for the rest of the season

Race podiums[]

  • 16 wins – (11 DH, 5 SG)
  • 38 podiums – (20 DH, 12 SG, 5 GS, 1 AC)
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2017 26 Nov 2016 United States Killington, USA Giant slalom 3rd
2 Dec 2016 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
4 Dec 2016 Super-G 3rd
10 Dec 2016 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom 2nd
16 Dec 2016 France Val d'Isère, France Combined 3rd
17 Dec 2016 Downhill 3rd
7 Jan 2017 Slovenia Maribor, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd
28 Jan 2017 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 2nd
29 Jan 2017 Super-G 2nd
4 Mar 2017 South Korea Jeongseon, South Korea Downhill 1st
5 Mar 2017 Super-G 1st
15 Mar 2017 United States Aspen, USA Downhill 3rd
19 Mar 2017 Giant slalom 2nd
2018 16 Dec 2017 France Val d'Isère, France Super-G 2nd
17 Dec 2017 Super-G 3rd
6 Jan 2018 Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
14 Jan 2018 Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Downhill 1st
19 Jan 2018 Italy Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 1st
3 Feb 2018 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill 2nd
4 Feb 2018 Downhill 2nd
14 Mar 2018 Sweden Åre, Sweden Downhill 2nd
15 Mar 2018 Super-G 1st
2019 26 Jan 2019 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 2nd
27 Jan 2019 Downhill 2nd
23 Feb 2019  Switzerland Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 1st
2020 14 Dec 2019  Switzerland St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 1st
2 Feb 2020 Russia Rosa Khutor, Russia Super-G 2nd
2021 18 Dec 2020 France Val d’Isère, France Downhill 2nd
19 Dec 2020 Downhill 1st
9 Jan 2021 Austria St. Anton, Austria Downhill 1st
22 Jan 2021  Switzerland Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 1st
23 Jan 2021 Downhill 1st
2022 3 Dec 2021 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 1st
4 Dec 2021 Downhill 1st
5 Dec 2021 Super-G 1st
11 Dec 2021  Switzerland St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 2nd
18 Dec 2021 France Val d’Isère, France Downhill 1st
19 Dec 2021 Super-G 1st

World Championship results[]

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom 		Super G Downhill Combined
2013 20 — — 4 22 7
2015 22 Did not compete
2017 24 — 3 10 4 DNF2
2019 26 — DNF2 2 15 —
2021 28 Injured one week before the event, did not compete[12]

Olympic results[]

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom 		Super G Downhill Combined
2018 25 — 11 11 1 DNS

See also[]

  • Italian skiers who closed in top 10 in overall World Cup

References[]

  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. 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. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Sofia Goggia portabandiera nella Cerimonia di Apertura, Michela Moioli alfiere nella cerimonia di chiusura". coni.it. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Season over for Sofia Goggia". fis-ski.com. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

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Awards
Preceded by Italian Sportswoman of the Year
2017, 2018 		Succeeded by
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