Tommy Moe

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Tommy Moe
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Tommy Moe in Alaska in June 2006
Personal information
Born (1970-02-17) February 17, 1970 (age 54)
Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Occupation Alpine skier
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Skiing career
Disciplines Downhill, super-G,
combined
World Cup debutMarch 17, 1990 (age 20)
(first top 15)
RetiredJune 1998 (age 28)
Olympics
Teams3 – (1992, 1994, 1998)
Medals2 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams3 – (1989, 1993, 1996)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons9 – (1990–1998)
Wins1 – (1 SG)
Podiums7 – (3 DH, 4 SG)
Overall titles0 – (8th in 1994)
Discipline titles0 – (3rd in SG, 1994)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Lillehammer Downhill
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1994 Lillehammer Super-G
Junior World Ski Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1989 AlyeskaCombined
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1989 AlyeskaSuper-G
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1987 HemsedalDownhill

Thomas Sven Moe (born February 17, 1970) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. An Olympic gold and silver medalist in 1994, he specialized in the speed events of downhill and super G.

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Early years

Born in Missoula, Montana, Moe learned to ski and race at The Big Mountain near Whitefish, where his father was a member of the ski patrol. Moe refined his skills as a teenager in Alaska at Alyeska, near Anchorage, where he attended the Glacier Creek Ski Academy. He joined the U.S. Ski Team in 1986 at age 16. [1]

Racing career

Moe made his World Cup debut at 17 [2] and days before he turned 19, competed at the 1989 World Championships in Vail, Colorado, where he placed 12th in the downhill competition. He earned his first World Cup points (top 15) in March 1990 with a 13th-place finish at Åre, Sweden, the 1990 season's final race. [3]

In a surprising performance in 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway, Moe became the first American male ski racer to win two medals in a single Winter Olympics, with a gold in the downhill and silver in the super-G at Kvitfjell. [4] At the time Moe was a resident of Alaska; after his Olympic victories his father was shown on television waving the Alaska state flag. [5] [6] [7]

Of Norwegian ancestry, he quickly became a favorite with the crowd at Kvitfjell, despite edging out Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway by 0.04 seconds to take the gold medal in the downhill. [7] He then placed second in the super-G on his 24th birthday, finishing 0.09 seconds behind Markus Wasmeier of Germany. [4] His success came despite not having yet won a World Cup race, though he had attained three podiums and had raced well the previous twelve months, starting with a fifth place in the downhill at the 1993 World Championships in Japan. [8] (He won a month after the Olympics, a super-G at Whistler, Canada, [9] [10] his sole World Cup victory).

Moe's best World Cup season was also in 1994, where he finished third in the super-G and eighth in both the downhill and overall standings. (Since 1971, the World Cup standings have not included the Winter Olympics or World Championships results.)

In March 1995, Moe suffered a right knee injury at Kvitfjell, on the same race course on which he won his Olympic medals thirteen months earlier. [11] [12] Following his recovery, he never regained his top form, [13] [14] and missed the World Championships in 1997 after a fluke thumb injury in late January required surgery. [14] [15] [16] He returned in March and won the downhill at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Maine. [17] Moe made his third U.S. Olympic team in 1998 at Nagano, [14] and finished eighth in the super-G and twelfth in the downhill at Hakuba. He retired from competitive ski racing that June at age 28. [18]

Career highlights

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
1990 2097———36—
1991 2174———29—
1992 2279——494031
1993 2331——261948
1994 248——384
1995 2528——111812
1996 26152——6265—
1997 2787——5035—
1998 2872——3235—

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
1993 27 Feb 1993 Whistler, BC, Canada Downhill 2nd
1994 12 Dec 1993 Val-d'Isère, France Super-G 3rd
29 Dec 1993 Bormio, ItalyDownhill3rd
12 Mar 1994Whistler, BC, CanadaDownhill3rd
13 Mar 1994Super-G1st
16 Mar 1994 Vail, CO, USA Downhill3rd
1995 11 Dec 1994 Tignes, FranceSuper-G2nd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
1989 19——2112—
1991 21
1993 23——cancelled513
1996 26——4221—
1997 27thumb injury, did not compete

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
1992 22 — — 28 20 18
1994 24 — — 2 1 5
1998 28 — — 8 12 —

After racing

Moe was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame five years later, and is currently a co-owner of Tordrillo Mountain Lodge in the Alaska Range and lives in Wilson, Wyoming. He serves as an ambassador of skiing at nearby Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Personal

Moe married longtime girlfriend Megan Gerety in 2003; they have two daughters and reside in western Wyoming.

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