Sofia Goggia is one of 13 athletes in the running for the FISI 2021 Athlete of the Year award ©Getty Images

The longlist for the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) 2021 Athlete of the Year award has been revealed and includes several champions from the 2020-2021 season, including women's Alpine Ski World Cup downhill conqueror Sofia Goggia.

Goggia is one of 13 athletes in the running for the award from six different sports.

Despite missing half of the season and the Alpine World Ski Championships due to injury, Goggia claimed the discipline's crystal globe thanks to a strong start.

Goggia, who is also the Olympic downhill champion, is nominated alongside Alpine skiing team mate Marta Bassino, who won gold in the women's parallel slalom at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Bassino also won the crystal globe for the best giant slalom skier on the World Cup circuit.

Another World Cup winner who is nominated is biathlete Dorothea Wierer, who won the women's individual crown for a second time and her fourth discipline title overall.

Wierer finished fifth in last season's overall Biathlon World Cup standings.

Snowboarding has three athletes on the shortlist, most notably men's Alpine snowboard World Cup champion Aaron March.

Team mate Roland Fischnaller - who is also in the final 13 - topped the parallel giant slalom end-of-season standings and won a silver medal in the discipline at the World Championships.

Double 2021 World Championship silver medallist Michela Moioli - who was additionally runner-up in the Snowboard Cross World Cup - makes the cut too.

Michela Moioli is the reigning Olympic women's Olympic snowboard cross champion ©Getty Images
Michela Moioli is the reigning Olympic women's Olympic snowboard cross champion ©Getty Images

Robert Antonioli was second in last season's Ski Mountaineering World Cup, making it his fifth year in a row on the podium in the individual competition.

He was defeated by Matteo Eydallin who is also nominated, having won his second gold.

Kevin Fischnaller joins them, having won a share of the men's  sprint title across the Luge World Cup, while Evelyn Lanthaler bagged a World Cup and World Championship double in natural track.

Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara won the doubles event at the World Cup in natural track and they too are in the running for the prize.

Finally, Federico Pellegrino won the men's sprint crystal globe in the Cross-Country World Cup for a second time to make the shortlist.

Pellegrino won the FISI award in 2016, Goggia claimed the prize back-to-back in 2017 and 2018, and biathlete Wierer won in 2019.

Alpine skier Federica Brignone, last year's winner, did not make the longlist.

It will be cut down to two candidates on October 4, and then the winner crowned in October 31.

Votes can be cast via email.