Italy's Alpine skiing star Federica Brignone won the women's SuperG at Milano Cortina 2026 on Thursday, securing her first Olympic gold and pulling off an epic sporting feat having only just returned to action after breaking her leg in a nasty fall in Val di Fassa in April.

    The 35-year-old prevailed with a time 1:23.41 ahead of France's Romane Miradoli and Austria's Cornelia Huetter to win Italy's fifth medal of the Games and the 14th overall.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella was in the crowd celebrating her achievement.
    "This is incredible," Brignone told Rai television after her winning run.
    "I'm still excited and still have the adrenalin running through my veins.
    "I was very relaxed today. I wanted to ski fluidly, smoothly and do it it all.
    "I didn't try to do a perfect line but to do the bends as fast as possible". Brignone was already the all-time most successful Italian woman skier in the World Cup, and her 37 wins put her behind only the great Alberto Tomba, on 50, for both sexes.
    But she had never previously reached the top of an Olympic podium, having two Olympic silvers and a bronze in her trophy cabinet as well as two world championship golds and three silvers.
   

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