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Michelle Gisin

Alpine skier
Gisin in 2019
Disciplines	Slalom, combined, Downhill, super-G, Giant slalom
Born	(1993-12-05) 5 December 1993 (age 31) Samedan, Graubünden, Switzerland
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
World Cup debut	29 December 2012 (age 19)
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2014, 2018, 2022)
Medals	3 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams	5 – (2013–2023)
Medals	2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	11 – (2013–2023)
Wins	1 – (1 SL)
Podiums	21 – (9 SL, 4 DH, 3 GS,          3 SG, 2 AC)
Overall titles	0 – (3rd in 2021)
Discipline titles	0 – (2nd in AC, 2018)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing  Switzerland World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Slalom 1 1 7 Giant slalom 0 1 2 Super-G 0 1 2 Downhill 0 1 3 Combined 0 2 0 International competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 0 1 World Championships 0 1 1 Olympic Games Gold 2018 Pyeongchang Combined Gold 2022 Beijing Combined Bronze 2022 Beijing Super-G World Championships Silver 2017 St. Moritz Combined Bronze 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo Combined Junior World Championships Silver 2013 Mont St. Anne Slalom

Michelle Gisin (German pronunciation: ['miʃel gɪzɪn]; born 5 December 1993) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and competes in all disciplines. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, she won the Women's combined event in 2018 Winter Olympics, and Women's combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Born in Samedan, Graubünden, Gisin is the younger sister of alpine ski racers Marc and Dominique Gisin.

Career

Gisin has enjoyed success in the Swiss Junior National Championships, finishing third in the downhill in 2011, third in the super-G in 2012 and winning the super combined in 2012. She took a silver medal in the slalom at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in February 2013. She competed for Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events.

She made a breakthrough at the senior level at a World Cup meeting in Val-d'Isère just before Christmas 2016: she took seventh place in her first World Cup start in downhill and took her first podium finish when she finished second in the combined. Later that season at the World Championships in St. Moritz, Gisin took a silver medal in the combined, finishing behind teammate Wendy Holdener in a one-two finish for the Swiss on home snow.

In December 2017, during her first visit to Lake Louise, Gisin took eighth place in the first of two downhills at the Canadian resort before taking her second World Cup podium in the second downhill the following day, finishing in third. The following week she made a successful return to St. Moritz when she took her first top 10 finish in a super-G, benefiting from an improvement in weather conditions to again finish second as part of a Swiss one-two, this time finishing 0.1 seconds behind Jasmine Flury. She went on to take the gold medal in the combined at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing third in the first run of downhill before holding off Mikaela Shiffrin and Holdener in the slalom leg to take the win, following in the footsteps of her sister, who won a gold medal in downhill in the 2014 Games.

Gisin's preparation for the 2021/22 season proved very difficult as she was ill with Pfeiffer's glandular fever in the summer and fall and had to refrain almost completely from training during this time. Despite this significant handicap, she was able to improve continuously throughout the winter and was already back on the podium at the end of December 2021 as the third-place finisher in the Courchevel giant slalom and the Lienz slalom. In January, two more third places were added in the downhill and super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom before repeating her Olympic victory in the combined. Two more third places in the World Cup were added in the slalom of Åre and the super-G of Courchevel.

Personal life

Gisin has been in a relationship with Italian alpine skier Luca De Aliprandini since 2014. They announced their engagement in June 2024.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

• 1 win – (1 SL)
• 21 podiums – (9 SL, 4 DH, 3 GS, 3 SG, 2 AC); 111 top tens

Season
	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2017	16 December 2016	Val d'Isere, France	Combined	2nd
2018	2 December 2017	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	3rd
	9 December 2017	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super-G	2nd
	4 March 2018	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Combined	2nd
2019	30 November 2018	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	2nd
	1 December 2018		Downhill	3rd
2020	29 December 2019	Lienz, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	11 January 2020	Altenmarkt, Austria	Downhill	3rd
2021	22 November 2020	Levi, Finland	Slalom	2nd
	29 December 2020	Semmering, Austria	Slalom	1st
	3 January 2021	Zagreb, Croatia	Slalom	3rd
	16 January 2021	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	3rd
	17 January 2021		Giant slalom	2nd
	20 March 2021	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Slalom	3rd
2022	21 December 2021	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	3rd
	29 December 2021	Lienz, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	22 January 2022	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Super-G	3rd
	12 March 2022	Åre, Sweden	Slalom	3rd
	17 March 2022	Courchevel, France	Super-G	3rd
2024	29 December 2023	Lienz, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	10 March 2024	Åre, Sweden	Slalom	3rd

World Championship results

Olympic results

See also

In Spanish: Michelle Gisin para niños

• List of Olympic medalist families