| Leona Popović | |
| Disciplines: | Slalom, giant slalom, combined |
| Club: | SK Rijeka |
| Birth Date: | 1997 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Rijeka, Croatia |
| Wcdebut: | 4 January 2015 (age 17) |
| Olympicteams: | 2 – (2018, 2022) |
| Olympicmedals: | 0 |
| Worldsteams: | 4 – (2015, 2017, 2021, 2023) |
| Worldsmedals: | 0 |
| Wcseasons: | 8 – (2015–2018, 2020–2023) |
| Wcwins: | 0 |
| Wcpodiums: | 2 – (2 SL) |
| Wcoveralls: | 0 – (27th in 2023) |
| Wctitles: | 0 – (6th in SL; 2023) |
Leona Popović (in Croatian pronounced as /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.
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 23 | ||||||
| 20 | 33 | ||||||
| 21 | |||||||
| 22 | — | ||||||
| 23 | rowspan=4 | ||||||
| 24 | — | ||||||
| 25 | 27 | 6 | — | — | — | ||
| 26 | 36 | 14 | — | — | — | ||
| Season | ||||||
| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |||
| 2023 | 18 Mar 2023 |  Soldeu, Andorra | 2nd | |||
| 2024 | 12 Nov 2023 |  Levi, Finland | Slalom | 2nd | ||
| Discipline | WC starts | WC Top 30 | WC Top 15 | WC Top 5 | WC Podium | Best result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Location | Place | ||||||
| 43 | 25 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 18 March 2023 and 12 Nov 2023 | Soldeu, Andorra and Levi, Finland | 2nd | |
| 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 January 2018 | Lenzerheide, Switzerland | 23rd | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 December 2017 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | 53rd | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 February 2017 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | 17th | |
| Total | 63 | 23 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | DNF1 | ||||||
| 19 | DNF2 | ||||||
| 21 | |||||||
| 23 | — | ||||||
| 25 | — | ||||||
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | — | |||||||
| 24 | — |