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

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.

On Tuesday, October 21, 2025, Marta Bassino was injured during training in Val Senales, fracturing the lateral tibial plateau of her left leg and reinserting the medial collateral ligament of her knee. The injury put her Olympic season at risk, and she was ultimately unable to compete.

World Cup results Season titles 1 title – (1 GS) SeasonDiscipline 2021 Giant slalom

Season standings SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedParallel 2015 19 61 — 20 47 — — rowspan=5 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 rowspan="9" 5 2022 2610—510354 2023 278—3832 rowspan="7" 2024 289—999 2025 2927—261621

Race podiums 7 wins – (6 GS, 1 DH) 30 podiums – (20 GS, 5 SG, 2 AC, 2 DH, 1 PGS); 95 top tens Season Date Location Discipline Place2017 22 Oct 2016 Sölden, Austria Giant slalom 3rd24 Jan 2017 Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd19 Mar 2017 Aspen, USA Giant slalom 3rd2018 26 Jan 2018    Lenzerheide, Switzerland Combined 2nd2019 15 Jan 2019 Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd202030 Nov 2019 Killington, USA Giant slalom1st Lienz, Austria Giant slalom 2nd12 Jan 2020 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Combined 3rd19 Jan 2020 Sestriere, Italy Parallel-G 3rd25 Jan 2020 Bansko, Bulgaria Downhill 2nd26 Jan 2020 Super-G 2nd2021 17 Oct 2020 Sölden, Austria   Giant slalom1st12 Dec 2020 Courchevel, France Giant slalom 1st10 Jan 2021 St. Anton, Austria Super-G 2nd16 Jan 2021 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 1st17 Jan 2021Giant slalom 1st26 Jan 2021 Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom 3rd2022 22 Dec 2021 Courchevel, France Giant slalom 3rd8 Jan 2022 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd11 Mar 2022 Åre, Sweden Giant slalom 2nd20 Mar 2022 Méribel, France Giant slalom 2nd2023 26 Nov 2022 Killington, USA Giant slalom 2nd10 Dec 2022 Sestriere, Italy Giant slalom 1st27 Dec 2022 Semmering, Austria Giant slalom 3rd28 Dec 2022 Giant slalom 3rd7 Jan 2023 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd15 Jan 2023 St. Anton, Austria Super-G 3rd22 Jan 2023 Super-G 3rd2024 17 Feb 2024   Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill1st18 Feb 2024 Super-G 3rd

Podiums SeasonPodiums Downhill Super G Giant slalom Combined Parallel Total Σ2017 3 0 0 3 32018 1 0 1 0 12019 1 0 0 1 12020 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 62021 1 4 1 4 1 1 62022 2 2 0 2 2 42023 2 1 2 2 1 2 4 72024 1 1 1 0 1 2 Total 1 1 0 0 2 3 6 5 9 0 1 1 0 0 1 7 9 1430 2 5 20 2 130

World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedTeamCombinedParallelTeam Event 2015 19 — DNF2 — — — rowspan="5" rowspan="3" — 2017 21 — 11 — — 17 — 2019 23 — 13 — — 13 3 2021 25 — 13 11 — 6 1 —202327—51—DNF SG11 —202529—DNF116—— —

Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedTeam 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 Italian female skiers most successful World Cup race winner

References

External links

Marta Bassino at Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI)