Sofia
Goggia
Italy
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Alpine Skiing
Date of birth | 15 November 1992 |
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Place of birth | Bergamo |
Age | 33 |
Nationality | Italy |
Career start | 2011 |
Disciplines | Alpine Skiing Combined / Alpine Skiing Downhill / Alpine Skiing Giantslalom / Alpine Skiing Super G |
Sofia Goggia started skiing in Foppolo in her native Italy at the tender age of three and, despite some serious injuries along the way, hasn't looked back since.
Today she's a powerful multidisciplinary skier who's won medals and titles at the highest level.
Goggia made her FIS World Cup debut back in 2011 and has amassed plentiful podiums across the downhill, Super G, giant slalom and combined categories in which she competes.
In the 2016–17 season, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in St Moritz. She finished on the World Cup podium no less than 13 times, beating Deborah Compagnoni's Italian record of 11 podiums in a single season.
Among those 13 podiums were two outright victories in Jeongseon in the downhill and Super G races. She added six second and five third places, finishing the season with 1,197 World Cup points and third place overall.
After a 2017 full of great results, even better was to follow for Goggia in 2018, when she took downhill gold for Italy in Pyeongchang, becoming the first Italian woman to win the event, while she also finished the FIS World Cup season atop the Downhill discipline standings.
Following on from that career-high season, she marked 2019 with a Super G silver medal at the world championships in Åre, Sweden. She then confirmed her status as one of the great all-round talents in downhill skiing by winning the World Cup downhill crystal globes again in 2021 and 2022, as well as bringing home a silver medal from the Winter Games in Beijing.
In the 2023-24 season, Sofia skied to first place at three FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup events and four more podiums across the year, while the 2024-25 season brought a Super-G win in Beaver Creek, a downhill win on home snow in Cortina and six further podiums to help to third places in the downhill, Super-G and overall World Cup standings showing she's still right at the top of her game.
"You have to protect your serenity," says Goggia
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Sofia Goggia is one of alpine skiing's greatest athletes right now
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Sofia Goggia is a serial winner who has taken Italian skiing to new heights
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Sofia Goggia has put Italy back on top of women's downhill skiing
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