Brignone Wins Olympic Super-G Gold in 1:23.41, Ten Months After a Double Leg Break

On February 12, 2026, at the Olimpia delle Tofane course in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the Province of Belluno in Italy's Veneto region, Italy's Federica Brignone won the women's super-G in alpine skiing at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in 1:23.41. It was her first Olympic gold medal and the host nation's first alpine gold of these Games. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and the Italian National Olympic Committee reported the race.

Starting sixth, Brignone clocked 1:23.41, at one point leading the field by 0.76 seconds, and won by 0.41 seconds. France's Romane Miradoli took silver, 0.41 seconds back, and Austria's Cornelia Huetter won bronze, 0.52 seconds back, on a foggy, snowy day when several favorites failed to finish. Italian President Sergio Mattarella watched the race in person.

The gold came just ten months after a devastating injury: in April 2025, Brignone suffered a compound fracture of the tibial plateau and fibular head in her left leg in a crash at the Italian Championships and could not walk for three months, returning to World Cup racing only on January 20 this year. At 35, she became the oldest woman to win Olympic gold in alpine skiing. She had previously won giant slalom bronze at PyeongChang 2018 and giant slalom silver and combined bronze at Beijing 2022.

Brignone said afterward that it was crazy and that she did not think she had realized it yet; she said she had been an underdog and an outsider, but she knew what she could do on skis. Silver medalist Miradoli said it felt magical, like a dream come true.

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Source: International Ski and Snowboard Federation

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Photo: 图：位于意大利科尔蒂纳丹佩佐的托法内山群冬季航拍，本届冬奥会女子超级大回转在当地托法内奥林匹亚赛道举行（资料照片）。Hansueli Krapf 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A winter aerial view of the Tofane mountains in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where the women's super-G was held on the Olimpia delle Tofane course (file photo). Photo by Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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