Sofia Goggia

Sofia Goggia
Goggia in 2019 at Palazzo Chigi
Born (1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 (age 30)
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
ClubG.S. Fiamme Gialle
World Cup debut28 December 2011
(age 19)
Olympics
Teams2 – (2018, 2022)
Medals2 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams4 – (2013, 2017, 2019,
       2023)
Medals2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons13 – (20122024)
Wins22 – (17 DH, 5 SG)
Podiums48 – (30 DH, 12 SG,
          5 GS, 1 AC)
Overall titles0 – (3rd in 2017)
Discipline titles4 – (DH, 2018, 20212023)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 0 3 2
Super-G 5 5 2
Downhill 17 10 3
Combined 0 0 1
Total 22 18 8
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 0
World Championships 0 1 1
Total 1 2 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Downhill
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing 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. She is a two-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

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 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 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 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.

Injuries

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

  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.

All these injuries did not prevent her from winning twenty-two World Cup victories with a third place in the 2017 overall standings, four World Cup season titles in downhill, two medals at the World Championships, the Olympic downhill title at PyeongChang 2018 and the silver medal in the same event at Beijing 2022, only three weeks after partially tearing her ACL.

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.
Goggia in a spectacular jump at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2018

Season titles

  • 4 titles – (4 DH)
Season Discipline
2018 Downhill
2021 Downhill
2022 Downhill
2023 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 6 35 5 1
2023 30 5 11 1
2024 31 16
^ Sidelined by ankle injury until late January 2019
^^ Injured in late January 2021, out for the rest of the season

Race podiums

  • 22 wins – (17 DH, 5 SG)
  • 48 podiums – (30 DH, 12 SG, 5 GS, 1 AC)
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2017 26 November 2016 United States Killington, USA Giant slalom 3rd
2 December 2016 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
4 December 2016 Super-G 3rd
10 December 2016 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom 2nd
16 December 2016 France Val d'Isère, France Combined 3rd
17 December 2016 Downhill 3rd
7 January 2017 Slovenia Maribor, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd
28 January 2017 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 2nd
29 January 2017 Super-G 2nd
4 March 2017 South Korea Jeongseon, South Korea Downhill 1st
5 March 2017 Super-G 1st
15 March 2017 United States Aspen, USA Downhill 3rd
19 March 2017 Giant slalom 2nd
2018 16 December 2017 France Val d'Isère, France Super-G 2nd
17 December 2017 Super-G 3rd
6 January 2018 Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
14 January 2018 Austria Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Downhill 1st
19 January 2018 Italy Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 1st
3 February 2018 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill 2nd
4 February 2018 Downhill 2nd
14 March 2018 Sweden Åre, Sweden Downhill 2nd
15 March 2018 Super-G 1st
2019 26 January 2019 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 2nd
27 January 2019 Downhill 2nd
23 February 2019  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 1st
2020 14 December 2019  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 1st
2 February 2020 Russia Rosa Khutor, Russia Super-G 2nd
2021 18 December 2020 France Val d’Isère, France Downhill 2nd
19 December 2020 Downhill 1st
9 January 2021 Austria St. Anton, Austria Downhill 1st
22 January 2021  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 1st
23 January 2021 Downhill 1st
2022 3 December 2021 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 1st
4 December 2021 Downhill 1st
5 December 2021 Super-G 1st
11 December 2021  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 2nd
18 December 2021 France Val d’Isère, France Downhill 1st
19 December 2021 Super-G 1st
22 January 2022 Italy Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 1st
27 February 2022  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
2023 2 December 2022 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 1st
3 December 2022 Downhill 1st
16 December 2022  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 2nd
17 December 2022 Downhill 1st
20 January 2023 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 1st
26 February 2023  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 1st
4 March 2023 NorwayKvitfjell, Norway Downhill 2nd
15 March 2023 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra Downhill 2nd

World Championship results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
2013 20 4 22 7
2015 22 injured, did not compete
2017 24 3 10 4 DNF2
2019 26 DNF2 2 15
2021 28 injured one week prior, did not compete
2023 30 11 DSQ DNS2

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
2018 25 11 11 1 DNS
2022 29 2

See also


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