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Marta Bassino
Alpine skier
Marta Bassino Sestriere 2022 (cropped).jpg
At Sestriere in December 2022
Disciplines Giant slalom, super-G, combined, downhill, slalom
Club CS Esercito
Born (1996-02-27) 27 February 1996 (age 28)
Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
World Cup debut 16 March 2014 (age 18)
Website martabassino.com
Olympics
Teams 2 − (2018, 2022)
Medals 0
World Championships
Teams 5 − (2015–2023)
Medals 3 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 11 − (2014–2024)
Wins 6 − (6 GS)
Podiums 28 − (20 GS, 4 SG, 2 AC,
         1 DH, 1 PGS)
Overall titles 0 − (5th in 2020)
Discipline titles 1 − (GS, 2021)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Italy
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 6 5 9
Downhill 0 1 0
Super-G 0 2 2
Combined 0 1 1
Parallel 0 0 1
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 0 0
World Championships 2 0 1
Junior World Championships 1 0 0
World Championships
Gold 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo Parallel
Gold 2023 Méribel Super-G
Bronze 2019 Åre Team event
Junior World Championships
Gold 2014 Jasná Giant slalom

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.

Biography

Marta Bassino in Courchevel, 20 december 2015 01 (cropped)
Bassino in World Cup giant slalom at Courchevel 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.

Career

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.

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.

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.

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. 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. She was a strong favourite for the giant slalom race, however, she finished in 13th place.

World Cup results

Season titles

  • 1 title – (1 GS)
FIS Crystal Globe.svg Season
Discipline
2021 Giant slalom

Season standings

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined Parallel
2015 19 61 20 47 N/A
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 N/A 5
2022 26 10 5 10 35 4
2023 27 8 3 8 32 N/A
Standings through 19 March 2023

Race podiums

  • 6 wins – (6 GS)
  • 28 podiums – (20 GS, 4 SG, 2 AC, 1 DH, 1 PGS)
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2017 22 Oct 2016 Austria Sölden, Austria Giant slalom 3rd
24 Jan 2017 Italy Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd
19 Mar 2017 United States Aspen, USA Giant slalom 3rd
2018 26 Jan 2018  Switzerland  Lenzerheide, Switzerland Combined 2nd
2019 15 Jan 2019 Italy Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd
2020 30 Nov 2019 United States Killington, USA Giant slalom 1st
28 Dec 2019 Austria Lienz, Austria Giant slalom 2nd
12 Jan 2020 Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Combined 3rd
19 Jan 2020 Italy Sestriere, Italy Parallel-G 3rd
25 Jan 2020 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria Downhill 2nd
26 Jan 2020 Super-G 2nd
2021 17 Oct 2020 Austria Sölden, Austria   Giant slalom 1st
12 Dec 2020 France Courchevel, France Giant slalom 1st
10 Jan 2021 Austria St. Anton, Austria Super-G 2nd
16 Jan 2021 Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 1st
17 Jan 2021 Giant slalom 1st
26 Jan 2021 Italy Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd
2022 22 Dec 2021 France Courchevel, France Giant slalom 3rd
8 Jan 2022 Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
11 Mar 2022 Sweden Åre, Sweden Giant slalom 2nd
20 Mar 2022 France Méribel, France Giant slalom 2nd
2023 26 Nov 2022 United States Killington, USA Giant slalom 2nd
10 Dec 2022 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom 1st
27 Dec 2022 Austria Semmering, Austria Giant slalom 3rd
28 Dec 2022 Giant slalom 3rd
7 Jan 2023 Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd
15 Jan 2023 Austria St. Anton, Austria Super-G 3rd
22 Jan 2023 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 3rd

Podiums

Season Podiums
Downhill Super G Giant slalom Combined Parallel Total
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 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
Total 0 1 0 0 2 2 6 5 9 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 9 13 28
1 4 20 2 1 28

World Championship results

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

Olympic results

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

Bassino has won four national championships at individual senior level.

  • Italian Alpine Ski Championships
    • Giant slalom: 2014, 2019, 2021
    • Slalom: 2019

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Marta Bassino para niños

  • Italian female skiers most successful World Cup race winner
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