Marta Bassino (born 27 February 1996) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She competes in all disciplines, with a focus in giant slalom, in which she has six World Cup wins.[1]

Marta Bassino
At Sestriere in December 2022
Personal information
Born (1996-02-27) 27 February 1996 (age 28)
Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesGiant slalom, super-G, combined, downhill, slalom
ClubCS Esercito
World Cup debut16 March 2014 (age 18)
Websitemartabassino.com
Olympics
Teams2 − (2018, 2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams5 − (20152023)
Medals3 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons11 − (20142024)
Wins7 − (6 GS, 1 DH)
Podiums30 − (20 GS, 5 SG, 2 AC, 2 DH, 1 PGS)
Overall titles0 − (5th in 2020)
Discipline titles1 − (GS, 2021)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 6 5 9
Downhill 1 1 0
Super-G 0 2 3
Combined 0 1 1
Parallel 0 0 1
Total 7 9 14
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 0 0
World Championships 2 0 1
Junior World Championships 1 0 0
Total 3 0 1
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo Parallel
Gold medal – first place 2023 Méribel Super-G
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Åre Team event
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Jasná Giant slalom

Biography

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Bassino in Courchevel giant slalom in December 2015

Born in Cuneo, Piedmont, Bassino lives in Borgo San Dalmazzo.

At the Junior World Championships in 2014, Bassino won the gold medal in the giant slalom on her eighteenth birthday in late February. This win granted her an automatic start at the giant slalom of the World Cup finals in mid-March, which was her World Cup debut. The next season was her first on the World Cup circuit.[1]

Career

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In October 2016, she scored her first World Cup podium at Sölden, finishing third in the giant slalom won by Switzerland's Lara Gut; later in the season she repeated the same result in the giant slaloms in Kronplatz and Aspen - the letter together with teammates Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia. Bassino was also part of the podium in Bansko in 2020, when Italian athletes took the top three places in the women's downhill.[1][2]

Her first win was in a giant slalom at Killington in November 2019. In that year Bassino became the first Italian skier able to get on the podium in five different disciplines in the same season.[1][3]

At her first World Championships in 2015, Bassino took part in the giant slalom, qualifying for the second run in 8th place, but did not finish. At the Worlds in 2017 in St. Moritz, she finished eleventh in the giant slalom and 17th in the combined. At her first Winter Olympics in 2018 at Pyeongchang, Bassino was fifth in the giant slalom, tenth in the combined, but did not finish the first run of the slalom. In 2019 at Åre, she won a bronze medal in the team race (participating as a reserve) and was 13th in both the giant slalom and combined.[1][4]

In the 2020–21 season, Bassino won four of the first five giant slalom races contested, also finishing on the podium in the sixth one – a third place in the home event in Kronplatz, Italy. She clinched the women's World Cup crystal globe in the discipline on 7 March 2021, prior to the finals.[5] At the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Bassino won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom event, alongside Austria's Katharina Liensberger.[6] She was a strong favourite for the giant slalom race, however, she finished in 13th place.[7]

World Cup results

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Season titles

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  • 1 title – (1 GS)
  Season
Discipline
2021 Giant slalom

Season standings

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Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
2015 19 61 20 47
2016 20 45 13 49 35
2017 21 18 6 35 20
2018 22 25 12 35 35 4
2019 23 27 9 29 37 9
2020 24 5 4 10 11 6 6
2021 25 6 43 1 6 29 5
2022 26 10 5 10 35 4
2023 27 8 3 8 32
2024 28 9 9 9 9

Race podiums

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  • 7 wins – (6 GS, 1 DH)
  • 30 podiums – (20 GS, 5 SG, 2 AC, 2 DH, 1 PGS); 91 top tens
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2017 22 Oct 2016   Sölden, Austria Giant slalom 3rd
24 Jan 2017   Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd
19 Mar 2017   Aspen, USA Giant slalom 3rd
2018 26 Jan 2018     Lenzerheide, Switzerland Combined 2nd
2019 15 Jan 2019   Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd
2020 30 Nov 2019   Killington, USA Giant slalom 1st
28 Dec 2019   Lienz, Austria Giant slalom 2nd
12 Jan 2020   Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Combined 3rd
19 Jan 2020   Sestriere, Italy Parallel-G 3rd
25 Jan 2020   Bansko, Bulgaria Downhill 2nd
26 Jan 2020 Super-G 2nd
2021 17 Oct 2020   Sölden, Austria   Giant slalom 1st
12 Dec 2020   Courchevel, France Giant slalom 1st
10 Jan 2021   St. Anton, Austria Super-G 2nd
16 Jan 2021   Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 1st
17 Jan 2021 Giant slalom 1st
26 Jan 2021   Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd
2022 22 Dec 2021   Courchevel, France Giant slalom 3rd
8 Jan 2022   Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
11 Mar 2022   Åre, Sweden Giant slalom 2nd
20 Mar 2022   Méribel, France Giant slalom 2nd
2023 26 Nov 2022   Killington, USA Giant slalom 2nd
10 Dec 2022   Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom 1st
27 Dec 2022   Semmering, Austria Giant slalom 3rd
28 Dec 2022 Giant slalom 3rd
7 Jan 2023   Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd
15 Jan 2023   St. Anton, Austria Super-G 3rd
22 Jan 2023   Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 3rd
2024 17 Feb 2024     Crans-Montana, Switzerland   Downhill 1st
18 Feb 2024 Super-G 3rd

Podiums

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Season Podiums
Downhill Super G Giant slalom Combined Parallel Total
                                    Σ
2017 3 0 0 3 3
2018 1 0 1 0 1
2019 1 0 0 1 1
2020 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 6
2021 1 4 1 4 1 1 6
2022 2 2 0 2 2 4
2023 2 1 2 2 1 2 4 7
2024 1 1 1 0 1 2
Total 1 1 0 0 2 3 6 5 9 0 1 1 0 0 1 7 9 14 30
2 5 20 2 1 30

World Championship results

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Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel Team Event
2015 19 DNF2
2017 21 11 17
2019 23 13 13 3
2021 25 13 11 6 1
2023 27 5 1 DNF SG 11

Olympic results

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Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined Team Event
2018 22 DNF1 5 10
2022 26 DNF1 17 DNF SL 8

National titles

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Bassino has won four national championships at individual senior level.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Marta Bassino - Athlete Information". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Sci alpino: podio tutto azzurro a Bansko" (in Italian). gazzettamatin.com. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  3. ^ "KILLINGTON - La prima volta di Marta Bassino" (in Italian). dovesciare.it. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Mondiali di sci: la gioia di Marta Bassino per la prima medaglia di bronzo" (in Italian). lastampa.it. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  5. ^ "MARTA BASSINO VINCE LA COPPA DEL MONDO DI GIGANTE. E' LA QUARTA ITALIANA DELLA STORIA" (in Italian). fisi.org. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Mondiali di sci di Cortina, Marta Bassino medaglia d'oro: nel gigante parallelo femminile arriva la prima gioia per l'Italia" (in Italian). ilfattoquotidiano.it. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Marta Bassino solo tredicesima nel gigante dei mondiali di Cortina 2021" (in Italian). quotidianopiemontese.it. 18 February 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  8. ^ "ALBO D'ORO CAMPIONATI ITALIANI SCI ALPINO". sportflash24.it (in Italian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
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