About Deborah Compagnoni
Deborah Compagnoni Golden Collar of Sports Merit is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics. Compagnoni won her first race in the World Cup in 1992. After her first major victory, the World Junior title in giant slalom, and her first podium in World Cup, she broke her right knee in the Val d'Isère downhill. In 1994, at the Lillehammer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the giant slalom, a feat she repeated four years later in Nagano.
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