Marta Bassino (born 27 February 1996) is an Italian

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alpine ski racer. She competes in all disciplines, with a focus in giant slalom, in which she has won 6 World Cup races.

Biography

Born in

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, she lives in Borgo San Dalmazzo. At the Junior World Championships in

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, 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

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, she scored her first World Cup podium at

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, finishing third in the giant slalom won by Switzerland's

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; later in the season she repeated the same result in the giant slaloms in Kronplatz and

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- the letter together with teammates

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and

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. Bassino was also part of the podium in

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, 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

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. 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

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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

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in St. Moritz, she finished eleventh in the giant slalom and 17th in the combined. At her first

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at Pyeongchang, Bassino was fifth in the giant slalom, tenth in the combined, but did not finish the first run of the slalom. In

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, 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

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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

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in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Bassino won the gold medal in the

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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)

Season standings

Race podiums

* 6 wins – (6 GS) * 26 podiums – (20 GS, 2 AC, 2 SG, 1 DH, 1 PGS)

World Championship results

Olympic results

National titles

Bassino has won four national championships at individual senior level. *

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**Giant slalom: 2014, 2019, 2021 **Slalom: 2019

References

External links

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at Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) ' * ' {{DEFAULTSORT:Bassino, Marta 1996 births Italian female alpine skiers People from Cuneo Sportspeople from the Province of Cuneo Living people Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Italy Alpine skiers of Gruppo Sportivo Esercito