Cigolla scored his first points in the World Cup in January 1986 with a twelfth place in the legendary Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel . In the course of his career he was able to place in the top ten a total of five times in World Cup races. He achieved his best result in January 1988 in Leukerbad, Switzerland, with third place. Four weeks later, he was unable to confirm this performance at the Winter Olympics in Calgary . In the downhill he only finished 31st, in the combined downhill he was 21st and then did not take part in the combined slalom.
Today Cigolla works as a winter sports coordinator for the sports group of the Italian Polizia di Stato .