Leona Popović

Leona Popović
At Soldeu in February 2024
Personal information
Born (1997-11-13) 13 November 1997 (age 27)
Rijeka, Croatia
OccupationAlpine skier
Skiing career
DisciplinesSlalom, giant slalom, combined
ClubSK Rijeka
World Cup debut4 January 2015 (age 17)
Olympics
Teams2 – (2018, 2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams4 – (2015, 2017, 2021, 2023)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons8 – (2015–2018, 2020–2023)
Wins0
Podiums2 – (2 SL)
Overall titles0 – (27th in 2023)
Discipline titles0 – (6th in SL; 2023)

Leona Popović (Croatian pronunciation: [pǒpoʋitɕ];[1] 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.[2] 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 in the second run of the giant slalom.

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age  Overall   Slalom  Giant
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2017 19 92 — — — — 23
2018 20 105 — 43 — — 33
2019 21 injured, did not compete
2020 22 117 48 — — — —
2021 23 87 36 — — — —
2022 24 51 14 — — —
2023 25 27 6 — — —
2024 26 36 14 — — —
Standings through 14 February 2024

Race podiums

  • 0 wins
  • 2 podiums (2 SL); 13 top tens (13 SL)
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2023 18 Mar 2023 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra Slalom 2nd
2024 12 Nov 2023 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom 2nd

Results per discipline

Discipline WC starts WC Top 30 WC Top 15 WC Top 5 WC Podium Best result
Date Location Place
Slalom 43 25 15 3 2 18 March 2023 and 12 Nov 2023 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra and Finland Levi, Finland 2nd
Giant slalom 19 1 0 0 0 27 January 2018  Switzerland  Lenzerheide, Switzerland 23rd
Super-G 3 0 0 0 0 9 December 2017  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland 53rd
Downhill 0 0 0 0 0
Combined 4 3 0 0 0 26 February 2017  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland 17th
Total 63 23 10 0 0

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2015 17 27 37 30 36 DNF1
2017 19 DNF1 DNF2 DNF — DNF2
2019 21 injured, did not compete
2021 23 21 25 — — —
2023 25 17 — — — —

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined Team
event
2018 20 — DNF1 — — — —
2022 24 23 — — — — —

References

  1. ^ "pȍp1". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Croatian). Retrieved 2018-03-18. Pòpović
  2. ^ "Beaver Creek 2015, Leona Popovic results". Retrieved 6 February 2015.


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