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Lucas Pinheiro Braathen

Braathen with the Small Crystal Globe in 2023
Personal information
Born	(2000-04-19) 19 April 2000 (age 24) Oslo, Norway
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Country	Brazil (2024–)  Norway (2016–2023)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Slalom, giant slalom
Club	Bærums Skiklub
World Cup debut	8 December 2018 (age 18)
Olympics
Teams	1 – (2022)
World Championships
Teams	1 – (2023)
World Cup
Seasons	5 – (2019–2023)
Wins	5 – (3 SL, 2 GS)
Podiums	12 – (8 SL 4 GS)
Overall titles	0 – (4th in 2023)
Discipline titles	1 – (SL – 2023)
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Representing  Norway Junior World Championships 2018 Davos Team 2019 Val di Fassa Super-G 2019 Val di Fassa Alpine Combined

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (Brazilian Portuguese: [piˈɲejɾu]; born 19 April 2000) is a Norwegian-born Brazilian World Cup alpine ski racer. Until his retirement from World Cup racing in October 2023, he represented Norway in international competition. In March 2024, Braathen announced that he would return to ski racing, representing Brazil instead.

Early life

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen was born to a Norwegian father and Brazilian mother on 19 April 2000 in Oslo, Norway. Braathen's mother left Brazil after meeting his father. When he was three years old, his parents separated and Braathen went to Brazil with his mother. When his father gained custody, Braathen moved back to Norway. He grew up speaking Norwegian and Portuguese. Beginning when he was 11 years old, Braathen visited Brazil every year.

Braathen first skied when he was three or four years old, but he did not start skiing again until he was nine years old. His father, Bjørn, planned his skiing career. Braathen also played football as a child, though he preferred skiing as it is an individual sport.

Career

From Hokksund, Braathen raced for Norwegian club Bærums SK. At the Junior World Championships in 2019, Braathen finished fourth and eleventh, followed by a silver medal in super-G, and a bronze medal in the combined event. He made his World Cup debut in December 2018 in Val d'Isere, and collected his first points (five) with a 26th-place finish.

Braathen recorded his first victory (and podium) in October 2020 at the season opener, a giant slalom in Sölden. In 2022, he won his first slalom at the Lauberhorn race in Wengen, going from 29th place after the first run to first place after the second run, the largest jump to victory at that time.

He announced his retirement from World Cup racing on 27 October 2023, a day before the new season's opening event in Sölden, Austria.

On 7 March 2024, he announced that he would return to alpine ski racing; but competing for Brazil instead of Norway.

On 27 October 2024, exactly a year after he announced his retirement, he returned at the World Cup Giant Slalom season opener in Sölden, narrowly finishing in 4th place behind the 1-2-3 podium clean sweep achieved by his former Norwegian teammates, scoring the first ever world cup points for Brazil in Alpine Skiing.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

• 5 wins – (3 SL, 2 GS)
• 13 podiums – (8 SL, 5 GS)

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2021	18 October 2020	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom	1st
2022	16 January 2022	Wengen, Switzerland	Slalom	1st
	22 January 2022	Kitzbühel, Austria	Slalom	2nd
	12 March 2022	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	19 March 2022	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	2nd
2023	11 December 2022	Val d'Isère, France	Slalom	1st
	18 December 2022	Alta Badia, Italy	Giant slalom	1st
	8 January 2023	Adelboden, Switzerland	Slalom	1st
	15 January 2023	Wengen, Switzerland	Slalom	3rd
	22 January 2023	Kitzbühel, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	24 January 2023	Schladming, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	19 March 2023	Soldeu, Andorra	Slalom	2nd
2025	9 December 2024	Beaver Creek, United States	Giant slalom	2nd

Olympic results

References

1. ^ "For Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the sky is the limit". Red Bull. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
2. "BRAATHEN Lucas - Athlete Information". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
3. "Five things you didn't know about alpine ski prodigy Lucas Braathen". International Olympic Committee. 9 December 2020.
4. Karlson Nielsen, Marthe (27 October 2023). "Lucas Braathen: - Var en "misfit"". Se og Hør (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 April 2024.
5. "Han er halvt brasiliansk og skulle bli fotballproff. Så la pappa en plan". www.aftenposten.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 26 January 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
6. "Lucas Braathen on learning from legends, giving up on football, and comparisons with Erling Haaland". Eurosport. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
7. "Da de norske profilene sviktet, ble en ukjent 19-åring redningen: – En helt uvirkelig følelse". www.aftenposten.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
8. Lucas Pinheiro Braathen at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
9. "Braathen stuns field to win Wengen slalom". 16 January 2022.
10. "Lucas Braathen announces retirement". 27 October 2023.
11. "Fixiert: Lucas Braathen fährt künftig für Brasilien". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 7 March 2024.

External links

• Lucas Pinheiro Braathen at FIS (alpine)
• Lucas Pinheiro Braathen at Olympics.com
• Lucas Pinheiro Braathen at Olympedia
• Lucas Pinheiro Braathen at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Lucas Pinheiro Braathen at Team Norway (in Norwegian)

• 2000 births
• Living people
• Skiers from Bærum
• Brazilian male alpine skiers
• Norwegian male alpine skiers
• Norwegian people of Brazilian descent
• Brazilian people of Norwegian descent
• Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
• Olympic alpine skiers for Norway
• 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen
• 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen