Leona Popović (; born 13 November 1997) is a Croatian
alpine ski racer. Previously, she competed in all winter disciplines, but now specialises in
slalom. Her best World Cup finish is 2nd place in slalom.
Popović's first major competition was the
2015 World Championships in
Beaver Creek, USA, where she competed in all disciplines at age seventeen; her best result was 27th in
slalom.
By her 22nd birthday, she had incurred three surgeries on her left leg. In 2015, she broke her tibia while training slalom, and two surgeries were required in 2018 to fix torn knee ligaments (
ACL and
MCL) sustained in a crash at the
Olympics
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competit ...
in the second run of the
giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant sl ...
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World Cup results
Season standings
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Race podiums
* 0 wins
* 2 podiums (2
SL); 13 top tens (13 SL)
Results per discipline
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
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1997 births
Croatian female alpine skiers
Living people
Skiers from Rijeka
Olympic alpine skiers for Croatia
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
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