Perfectly successful surgery for Federica Brignone

The ski season ended in the worst way for Federica Brignone. After winning the overall, giant and downhill World Cups, the skier from Valle d’Aosta suffered a very bad fall during the second run of the women’s giant at the Lusia Ski Area in Val di Fassa, which was valid for the Italian Championships.

After being flown by helicopter to the ’Hospital “La Madonnina” in Milan, initial investigations revealed a multifracture fracture of the tibial plateau and the head of the fibula, thus making surgery essential.

“The operation to which Federica Brignone underwent at the La Madonnina clinic in Milan following her fall during the second run of the women’s giant slalom at the Ski Area Lusia in Val di Fassa (Tn), valid for the Italian Championships, was concluded in the evening.

The surgery, which was perfectly successful, was performed by FISI Medical Commission President Andrea Panzeri in collaboration with Drs. Riccardo Accetta (Head of the Traumatology Operating Unit at IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio), Gabriele Thiebat (FISI Medical Commission) and Alberto Zangrillo (Chief of the Operating Unit of General Anesthesia and Resuscitation at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan) and was necessary for the reduction and synthesis of the multi-fragmentary compound fracture of the tibial plateau and the head of the fibula of the left leg, as well as the ligamentous repair of the medial compartment of the knee.

Anterior cruciate ligament rupture was also highlighted, which will be evaluated in the coming weeks. The giant slalom world champion in Saalbach 2025 and fresh winner of the World Cup will start from the next days the rehabilitation path” this the medical repor issued by FISI.

While waiting to begin rehabilitation, however, apprehension remains in view of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, since given the’extent of the injury the recovery time could be very long.