Chiara MAZZEL

Her first appearance in Paralympic ski competitions together with her guide, Fabrizio Casal, immediately winning her first medal in the Europa Cup (a silver in the giant slalom).

She debuted at the Beijing Paralympic, sealing her spot among the world’s top visually impaired athletes. In the same period, she racked up her first international wins in the Europa Cup.

The landmark year: at the World Championships in Espot, the athlete from the Sports Division of the Italian Finance Police (known as the ‘Fiamme Gialle’) won three gold medals in the downhill, super-G and Alpine combined competitions. She also won the World Cup downhill race, establishing herself as one of the leading figures on the world circuit.

At the World Championships in Maribor, she won a silver medal in both the giant slalom and slalom races. One year later, at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Paralympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career, with a haul of four medals: gold in the Super-G, and silver in the downhill and combined together with her guide, Nicola Cotti Cottini, as well as a silver in the giant slalom with Fabrizio Casal as her guide.