Sofia Goggia

Sofia Goggia
Sofia Goggia in December 2015 in Lienz
nation	Italy
birthday	15th November 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Bergamo , Italy
size	169 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination
society	GS Fiamme Gialle
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Pyeongchang 2018 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze St. Moritz 2017 Giant slalom silver Åre 2019 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 28, 2011  Individual world cup victories 7th  Overall World Cup 3. ( 2016/17 )  Downhill World Cup 1. ( 2017/18 )  Super G World Cup 5. (2017/18)  Giant Slalom World Cup 3. (2016/17)  Combination World Cup 8. (2016/17)  Parallel world cup 10. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 4th 6th 2  Super G 3 4th 2  Giant slalom 0 3 2  combination 0 0 1
last change: March 12, 2020

Sofia Goggia (born November 15, 1992 in Bergamo ) is an Italian ski racer . She belongs to the national team of the Italian Winter Sports Federation and is successful in several disciplines. So far, she has achieved World Cup victories in downhill and super-G , and she has also achieved podium positions in giant slalom and combined . Her greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in the downhill at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang .

biography

Goggia grew up in the Valle di Astino, which belongs to the city of Bergamo . She learned to ski at the age of three on the slopes of Foppolo . On January 10, 2008, she contested her first FIS race and was used for the first time in the European Cup just eight days later , but did not start again in this racing series until December 2009. At the Italian Junior Championships in 2009, she won slalom, giant slalom, super-G and combined, and again in 2010, super-G. She had her first international appearances at the European Youth Olympic Festival 2009 in Szczyrk , Poland , where she was 9th in giant slalom and 15th in slalom. This was followed by the 2010 Junior World Championship in Haute-Savoie , France , where she finished 6th in the downhill and 46th in giant slalom, but was eliminated in Super-G and Slalom.

After winning FIS races for the first time in January 2010, Goggia took her first points in the European Cup in March 2010. In the following winter of 2010/2011, she completed only a few races, as she had to end the season due to injury in mid-January. In the 2011/2012 season , Goggia made it to the top in the European Cup. She initially achieved several top 10 results, was third in Jasná's Super G on February 8, 2012, and celebrated her first victory six days later in the Super Combined by Sella Nevea . She won the combined classification and was third in the overall and Super-G classification, although she had to end the season early: After a fall in the giant slalom in Andalo on February 24, 2012, she suffered knee injuries and thus also missed the Junior World Championship 2012 .

World Cup debut 2011

In the World Cup , Goggia started in the giant slalom in Lienz for the first time on December 28, 2011 , but remained without World Cup points for almost two years. In the 2012/13 season Goggia won three races in the European Cup. Although she had never competed in a Super-G World Cup before, she was nominated in this discipline for the 2013 World Championship in Schladming and surprisingly finished fourth, missing the podium by just five hundredths of a second. In the European Cup, she won the downhill classification with two wins. Goggia won his first World Cup points on November 30, 2013 with 7th place in the Super-G at Beaver Creek . A week later, she fell on Lake Louise Downhill, tearing a cruciate ligament in her left knee. So the season ended prematurely for her. Recurring knee problems forced her to end the season prematurely in January 2015.

In the 2015/2016 season , Goggia remained injury-free and was gradually able to re-establish herself in the World Cup, scoring three top 10 results. The best result this winter was 4th place in the Super-G of Soldeu on February 27, 2016. Her final breakthrough to the top of the world came in the following season 2016/2017 . On November 26, 2016, she finished third in the Killington giant slalom for the first time on the podium. A week later, she achieved her first podium finish in a World Cup descent in Lake Louise. By the end of the year she was on the podium a total of six times in four different disciplines. At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz , she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom. On March 4, 2017, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in the downhill at the Olympic dress rehearsal in Jeongseon . In the Super-G, which was held the following day, she won again.

Olympic victory and victory in the Downhill World Cup

At the beginning of the 2017/2018 season , she achieved three podium places (two third places, one second place) in the first 12 World Cup races. In the 13th race on January 14, 2018, she finally celebrated her first win of the season on the downhill from Bad Kleinkirchheim, in which she, together with Federica Brignone and Nadia Fanchini, also achieved the first Italian triple success in a downhill race. Another victory followed 5 days later in the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the gold medal in the downhill after two eleventh places in the giant slalom and the Super-G on February 21. She became the first Italian Olympic champion in this discipline. Of her compatriots, only Zeno Colò had previously achieved this in Oslo in 1952 . Even at world championships, the Azzurri had so far only been able to win gold through Paula Wiesinger (1932) or through Coló (1950; 1952, in the latter case the Olympic victory also counted as world championship title). Three weeks later, at the World Cup final in Åre , Goggia secured victory in the downhill discipline standings with a three point lead over Lindsey Vonn . Here, too, the picture is practically the same: For the women it was only Isolde Kostner (2000/01, 2001/02), and for the men, Peter Fill was also able to win twice (2015/16, 2016/17).

Shortly before the start of the 2018/19 World Cup season , Goggia fell while training on the Hintertux Glacier and suffered a fractured ankle. As a result, she missed the first half of the season. Three months later she returned to racing in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and immediately finished second. The World Ski Championships in Åre were also successful with silver in the Super-G.

successes

Olympic games

• Pyeongchang 2018 : 1st downhill, 11th Super-G, 11th giant slalom

World championships

• Schladming 2013 : 4th super-G, 7th super combination, 22nd descent
• St. Moritz 2017 : 3rd giant slalom, 4th downhill, 10th Super-G
• Åre 2019 : 2nd Super-G, 15th Downhill

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		combination		Parallel
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2013/14	85.	36	-	-	30th	36	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	123.	1	-	-	58.	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	38.	248	32.	28	26th	114	22nd	96	35.	10	-	-
2016/17	3.	1197	2.	460	6th	240	3.	405	8th.	92	-	-
2017/18	4th	958	1.	509	5.	311	22nd	106	17th	32	-	-
2018/19	22nd	348	7th	220	14th	116	43.	12	-	-	-	-
2019/20	11.	479	17th	162	8th.	180	19th	82	-	-	10.	55

World cup

Goggia has achieved 27 podiums so far, including 7 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
4th March 2017	Jeongseon	South Korea	Departure
5th March 2017	Jeongseon	South Korea	Super G
January 14, 2018	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	Departure
19th January 2018	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	Departure
15th March 2018	Are	Sweden	Super G
February 23, 2019	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	Departure
December 14, 2019	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Super G

European Cup

• Season 2011/12 : 3rd overall ranking, 1st super combination ranking, 3rd Super G ranking
• Season 2012/13 : 2nd overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 7th giant slalom ranking, 9th super combination ranking
• 9 podium places, including 4 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
February 14, 2012	Sella Nevea	Italy	Super combination
December 19, 2012	Courchevel	France	Giant slalom
17th January 2013	St. Anton	Austria	Departure
January 28, 2013	Jasná	Slovakia	Departure

Junior World Championships

• Mont Blanc 2010 : 6th descent, 46th giant slalom

More Achievements

• 6 victories in FIS races
• 5 Italian junior championship titles (Super-G 2009 and 2010, giant slalom 2009, slalom 2009, combination 2009)
• European Youth Olympic Festival 2009: 9th giant slalom, 15th slalom

Awards

• Italy's Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 2017, 2018

Web links

Commons : Sofia Goggia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sofia Goggia in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Sofia Goggia in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La domenica di Sofia Goggia: "Cerco la famiglia e ciò che conta". L'Eco di Bergamo, March 9, 2014, accessed January 7, 2017 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Goggia, distorsione ginocchio e presunta frattura tibia. (No longer available online.) Raceskimagazine.it, February 24, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 5, 2012 (Italian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ End of the season for Sofia Goggia. skionline.ch, December 11, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Sofia Goggia has to take a break. skionline.ch, January 7, 2015, accessed on January 10, 2015 . 
5. ^ Italian triple victory in Bad Kleinkirchheim. Courier, January 14, 2018, accessed March 9, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Goggia grabs downhill gold. ORF , February 21, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Shock news for Sofia Goggia: Broken ankle and no races until January. skiweltcup.tv, October 20, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2019 .