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Tommy Moe

Tommy Moe in Alaska in June 2006
Personal information
Born	(1970-02-17)February 17, 1970 (age 55) Missoula,Montana,U.S.
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Sport
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill,super-G, combined
World Cup debut	March 17,1990 (age 20) (first top 15)
Retired	June1998 (age 28)
Olympics
Teams	3 – (1992,1994,1998)
Medals	2 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	3 – (1989,1993,1996)
Medals	0
World Cup
Seasons	9 – (1990–1998)
Wins	1 – (1SG)
Podiums	7 – (3DH, 4SG)
Overall titles	0 –(8th in1994)
Discipline titles	0 –(3rd inSG,1994)
Medal record Men'salpine skiing Representingthe United States Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Downhill 1994 Lillehammer Super-G Junior World Ski Championships 1989 Alyeska Combined 1989 Alyeska Super-G 1987 Hemsedal Downhill

Thomas Sven Moe (born February 17, 1970) is a formerWorld Cupalpine ski racer from theUnited States. An Olympic gold and silver medalist in1994, he specialized in the speed events ofdownhill andsuper G.

Born inMissoula,Montana, Moe learned to ski and race atThe Big Mountain nearWhitefish, where his father was a member of theski patrol. Moe refined his skills as a teenager inAlaska atAlyeska, nearAnchorage, where he attended the Glacier Creek Ski Academy. He joined theU.S. Ski Team in 1986 at age 16.^[1]

Moe made his World Cup debut at 17^[2] and days before he turned 19, competed at the1989 World Championships inVail,Colorado, where he placed 12th in the downhill competition. He earned his first World Cup points (top 15) in March1990 with a 13th-place finish atÅre,Sweden, the 1990 season's final race.^[3]

In a surprising performance in1994 Winter Olympics atLillehammer,Norway, Moe became the firstAmerican male ski racer to win two medals in a singleWinter Olympics, with a gold in thedownhill and silver in thesuper-G atKvitfjell.^[4] At the time Moe was a resident ofAlaska; after his Olympic victories his father was shown on television waving the Alaska state flag.^[5][6][7]

OfNorwegian ancestry, he quickly became a favorite with the crowd atKvitfjell, despite edging outKjetil 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 behindMarkus Wasmeier ofGermany.^[4] His success came despite not having yet won aWorld 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 the1993 World Championships inJapan.^[8] (He won a month after the Olympics, a super-G atWhistler,Canada,^[9][10] his sole World Cup victory).

Moe's best World Cup season was also in1994, where he finished third in the super-G and eighth in both the downhill and overall standings. (Since1971, the World Cup standings have not included theWinter Olympics orWorld Championships results.)

In March1995, 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 in1997 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 inMaine.^[17] Moe made his third U.S. Olympic team in1998 atNagano,^[14] and finished eighth in thesuper-G and twelfth in thedownhill atHakuba. He retired from competitive ski racing that June at age 28.^[18]

• 1994 Winter Olympics inLillehammer,Norway: two medals
  • Gold medal inDownhill
  • Silver medal inSuper-G (on his 24th birthday)
• Five U.S. Alpine Championship titles
• OneWorld Cup victory (1994, super-G at Whistler)
• Inducted into theNational Ski Hall of Fame in 2003

• 1 win - (1 SG)
• 7 podiums - (4 DH, 3 SG)

• The Super-G in1993 was cancelled after multiple weather delays.

Moe was inducted into theNational Ski Hall of Fame five years later, and is currently a co-owner of Tordrillo Mountain Lodge in theAlaska Range and lives inWilson,Wyoming. He serves as an ambassador of skiing at nearbyJackson Hole Mountain Resort.

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

• Tommy Moe at theInternational Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Tommy Moe World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
• Tommy Moe at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Tommy Moe atOlympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame – Tommy Moe
• Jackson Hole.com – Tommy Moe
• Tordrillo Mountain Lodge – Tommy Moe
• Classic Mountain Zone.com – Tommy Moe – 1998 retirement

• American male alpine skiers
• Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
• Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Sportspeople from Missoula, Montana
• Skiers from Anchorage, Alaska
• American people of Norwegian descent
• 1970 births
• Living people
• Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the United States in alpine skiing
• Olympic silver medalists for the United States in alpine skiing
• People from Wilson, Wyoming
• 20th-century American sportsmen

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