Michelle Gisin (; born 5 December 1993) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and competes in all disciplines.FIS Biography A two-time Olympic gold medalist, she won the combined in 2018 and successfully defended in 2022. 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 SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedParallel 2013 19 79 35 — — — — rowspan="7" 2014 20 82 31 — — — — 2015 21 45 18 38 — — — 2016 2244 14 — — — 21 2017 2327 16 — 41 28 5 2018 247 13 50 4 6 2 2019 2516 14 37 24 9 — 2020 268 8 11 17 24 8 — 2021 273 4 4 13 15 rowspan="5" — 2022 28 5 7 8 12 16 — 2023 29131828919 rowspan="3" 2024 3084251421 2025 313432352219
Race podiums 1 win – (1 SL) 21 podiums – (9 SL, 4 DH, 3 GS, 3 SG, 2 AC); 113 top tens Season Date Location Discipline Place 2017 16 December 2016 Val d'Isere, France Combined 2nd2018 2 December 2017 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 3rd9 December 2017 St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 2nd4 March 2018 Combined 2nd2019 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd 1 December 2018 Downhill 3rd2020 29 December 2019 Lienz, Austria Slalom 3rd11 January 2020 Altenmarkt, Austria Downhill 3rd2021 22 November 2020 Levi, Finland Slalom 2nd29 December 2020 Semmering, Austria Slalom 1st3 January 2021 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom 3rd16 January 2021 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia 3rd17 January 2021 Giant slalom 2nd20 March 2021 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Slalom 3rd2022 21 December 2021 Courchevel, France Giant slalom 3rd29 December 2021 Lienz, Austria Slalom 3rd22 January 2022 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 3rd12 March 2022 Åre, Sweden Slalom 3rd17 March 2022 Courchevel, France Super-G 3rd202429 December 2023 Lienz, Austria Slalom 3rd10 March 2024 Åre, Sweden Slalom 3rd
World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedTeamCombinedParallelTeam Event 2013 19 26 — — — — rowspan=6rowspan=4 9 2015 21 DNF2 32 — — — 4 2017 23 21 — — 8 2 — 2019 25Injured: did not compete 2021 27 DNF1 11 8 5 3 — — 2023 29 DNS2 28 10 — 6 — — 2025 31 — 26 17 — — —
Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedTeam Event 2014 20 28 — — — — 2018 24 16 — 9 8 1 — 2022 28 6 10 3 — 1 —
See also List of Olympic medalist families
References
External links
Michelle Gisin at the Swiss Olympic Association Michelle Gisin at the Swiss Ski Team