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Redding, CT
Columbia University '24
Olivia Giaccio first learned to ski at age two. Growing up in Redding, Connecticut, her parents sent her and her brother to ski school in Killington, Vermont. Giaccio won her first FIS World Cup event in December 2021, which ended defending Olympic champion and reigning world champion Perrine Laffont's almost three-year winning streak in women's moguls. In 2022, Giaccio became the first woman to land a cork 1080 in competition in a season where she qualified for her first Olympic team and finished sixth at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
Since the Beijing Games, Giaccio has been one of the most consistent for U.S. women's moguls team on the world cup circuit, finishing with 15 top-three finishes since the start of the 2023-24 season in moguls and dual moguls (event will make its Olympic debut at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026) before a broken collarbone in February prematurely ended her season before the 2025 FIS World Championships.
Off the snow, Giaccio finished her undergraduate studies at Columbia University with a degree in psychology in December 2024, taking her final exam just a few days before winning her third career world cup moguls race.
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