Sofia Goggia ready to get back in the game: the Italian champion is looking for redemption

After starting the season with a fall in the first run of the giant slalom in Sölden last October 25, Sofia Goggia is seeking redemption in Colorado, a place where last year the Bergamo-born champion returned to success after serious injury. The Italian and her national teammates will be busy, in particular, at Copper Mountain, for the giant slalom on Saturday, November 29.

The Italian team will consist of Lara Della Mea, Giorgia Collomb, Asja Zenere and Ilaria Ghisalberti, in addition to Sofia Goggia. Della Mea and Collomb will also be part of the team that, on the same slope, will face the special slalom, together, however, with three other teammates: Emilia Mondinelli, Beatrice Sola and Martina Peterlini.

Winner of 26 World Cup races in her career, Sofia Goggia is aspiring for her first success in giant slalom, a discipline she has resumed facing consistently also in view of her participation in the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Games. The champion from Bergamo has so far won in World Cup downhill 19 times and in Super-G seven times.

Staying on the theme of fast disciplines, Copper Mountain will launch the men’s super-G season on Thursday, 27: Marco Abbruzzese, Jacques Alliod, Guglielmo Bosca, Mattia Casse, Giovanni Franzoni, Christof Innerhofer, Nicolò Molteni, Dominik Paris, Max Perathoner and Florian Schieder are part of the team present in Colorado, one of whom will have to drop out due to the limit of nine participants for Italy. Then on Friday 27 it will be the turn of the men’s giant slalom with Luca De Aliprandini, Alex Vinatzer, Filippo Della Vite, Giovanni Borsotti and Tobias Kastlunger.