ALPINE SKIING
No one has ever done it like her. Sofia Goggia claimed the Olympic bronze medal in the downhill at Milano Cortina 2026, becoming the first female skier to stand on the podium three times in a row at the Winter Games in this discipline, following gold at PyeongChang 2018 and silver at Beijing 2022. For the Italia Team it is the fourth medal of these Olympics, the third in alpine skiing after the silver won by Giovanni Franzoni and the bronze secured yesterday by Dominik Paris in the men’s race.
On the Olympia delle Tofane — where she has triumphed four times in World Cup downhills — the Bergamo-born star (photo Simone Ferraro/CONI), who started with bib number 15 after a long delay caused by rescue operations for American Lindsey Vonn, who crashed in the upper section of the course just nine days after suffering a knee injury in the Crans-Montana downhill, stopped the clock at 1:36.69. She finished 0.59 seconds behind the United States’ Breezy Johnson, the reigning world champion, who took gold ahead of Germany’s Emma Aicher, silver at +0.04.
Laura Pirovano placed sixth on her Olympic debut, finishing +0.94 off the lead, behind Austria’s Cornelia Huetter and the other American Jacqueline Wiles, both at +0.86. A top-ten result also for Federica Brignone, 10th at +1.19, in her first downhill of the season, 311 days after the serious injury (a displaced, multi-fragment fracture of the tibial plateau and fibular head) sustained in the giant slalom at the Italian Championships in Val di Fassa in April 2025. Behind her was Nicol Delago, 11th at +1.55 (level with Austria’s Mirjam Puchner), the same placing she achieved at Beijing 2022.
