Federica Brignone has been crowned women’s Alpine skiing super-G champion at Milano Cortina 2026. The 35-year-old, wearing her classic tiger helmet, finished ahead of France’s Romane Mirandoli and Austria’s Cornelia Huetter with a time of 1:23.41. The Italian flag bearer won bronze in the combined downhill in Beijing 2022, and another gold, silver, and bronze respectively at the Alpine Ski World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in 2025, in Beijing in 2022, and at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in 2018, again in the giant slalom. It was in this same category that a fall at the Italian Championships in Moena in 2025 had caused concern ahead of the Olympics: the champion had suffered a compound fracture of the tibial plateau and fibular head of her left leg, as well as a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her knee. A little over 300 days after her injury, she achieved an unexpected victory: “Honestly, I didn’t think I could win gold. I never would have imagined it. I knew I had given my all and that would have been a bonus, I considered myself an outsider. That was my strength, it’s something special,” was the skier’s immediate reaction. Cheering her and the other Italian women on in the final was the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who watched Brignone’s triumph from the stands of the Olympia delle Tofane slope, but also Sofia Goggia’s disappointment. The Fiamme Gialle athlete did not make it this time and went off course. Laura Pirovano and Elena Curtoni finished fifth and seventh, respectively.