Sofia Goggia

Sofia Goggia

At Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2017
Personal information
Born	(1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom, Combined
Club	G.S. Fiamme Gialle
World Cup debut	28 December 2011 (age 19)
Olympics
Teams	1 – (2018)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	3 – (2013, 2017, 2019)
Medals	2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	10 – (2012–2021)
Wins	11 – (8 DH, 3 SG)
Podiums	32 – (17 DH, 9 SG, 5 GS, 1 AC)
Overall titles	0 – (3rd in 2017)
Discipline titles	1 – (DH, 2018)
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 8 7 2 Super-G 3 4 2 Giant slalom 0 3 2 Combined 0 0 1 Total 11 14 7 Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Downhill World Championships 2019 Åre Super-G 2017 St. Moritz Giant slalom

Sofia Goggia (Italian pronunciation: [soˈfiːa ˈɡɔddʒa]; born 15 November 1992) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She made her World Cup debut in December 2011 and primarily competed on the European Cup circuit until the 2016 World Cup season.
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 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.

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. 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 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.

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.

Injuries

The career of the Bergamo athlete has been studded with numerous injuries which, however, have not prevented her from always recovering and being an often winning athlete.

1. 2010: she tears the anterior cruciate ligament of both knees at different times;
2. February 2012: she underwent a strain on the collateral ligaments of both knees and a fracture of the tibial plateau of the right leg;
3. 2014: it is the turn of the cruciate ligament of the right knee;
4. in October 2018 she fractured the fibular malleolus of her right leg during a training session in Hintertux;
5. February 2020: a compound radius fracture of the left arm on the Garmisch-Partenkirchen track puts an end to his 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. The home World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo and the season finale are skipped.

All these injuries did not prevent her from winning eleven World Cup victories with a third place in the 2016-17 overall standings, triumph in the 2017-18 downhill World Cup, two medals at the World Championships (silver in Super-G in Are 2019 and bronze in giant slalom in St. Moritz 2017) and the Olympic downhill title at PyoengChang 2018.

World Cup results

Season titles

• 1 title – (1 DH)

Season	Discipline
2018	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	4	—	9	11	1	—

Standings through 26 January 2021

^ Sidelined by ankle injury until late January 2019

^^ Injured in late January 2021, out for the rest of the season

Race podiums

• 11 wins – (8 DH, 3 SG)
• 32 podiums – (17 DH, 9 SG, 5 GS, 1 AC)

Season
	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2017	26 Nov 2016	Killington, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
	2 Dec 2016	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	2nd
	4 Dec 2016		Super-G	3rd
	10 Dec 2016	Sestriere, Italy	Giant slalom	2nd
	16 Dec 2016	Val d'Isère, France	Combined	3rd
	17 Dec 2016		Downhill	3rd
	7 Jan 2017	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	28 Jan 2017	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill	2nd
	29 Jan 2017		Super-G	2nd
	4 Mar 2017	Jeongseon, South Korea	Downhill	1st
	5 Mar 2017		Super-G	1st
	15 Mar 2017	Aspen, USA	Downhill	3rd
	19 Mar 2017		Giant slalom	2nd
2018	16 Dec 2017	Val d'Isère, France	Super-G	2nd
	17 Dec 2017		Super-G	3rd
	6 Jan 2018	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	3rd
	14 Jan 2018	Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria	Downhill	1st
	19 Jan 2018	Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill	1st
	3 Feb 2018	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Downhill	2nd
	4 Feb 2018		Downhill	2nd
	14 Mar 2018	Åre, Sweden	Downhill	2nd
	15 Mar 2018		Super-G	1st
2019	26 Jan 2019	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Super-G	2nd
	27 Jan 2019		Downhill	2nd
	23 Feb 2019	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Downhill	1st
2020	14 Dec 2019	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super-G	1st
	2 Feb 2020	Rosa Khutor, Russia	Super-G	2nd
2021	18 Dec 2020	Val d’Isère, France	Downhill	2nd
	19 Dec 2020		Downhill	1st
	9 Jan 2021	St. Anton, Austria	Downhill	1st
	22 Jan 2021	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Downhill	1st
	23 Jan 2021		Downhill	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 right knee one week before the event, did not compete

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

External links

• Sofia Goggia at FIS (alpine)
• Sofia Goggia at Olympics.com
• Sofia Goggia at Olympedia
• Sofia Goggia at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Sofia Goggia at FISI (in Italian)
• Sofia Goggia at Atomic Skis