Tommy Moe

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.

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.

Racing career Moe made his World Cup debut at 17 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 in the 1990 season's final race.

In a surprising performance in the 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. At the time Moe was a resident of Alaska; after his Olympic victories his father was shown on television waving the Alaska state flag.

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. (He won a month after the Olympics, a super-G at Whistler, Canada, 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. After his recovery, he never regained his top form and missed the World Championships in 1997 after a fluke thumb injury in late January required surgery. He returned in March and won the downhill at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Maine. Moe made his third U.S. Olympic team for the 1998 Nagano Games

Career highlights 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, two medals Gold medal in Downhill Silver medal in Super-G (on his 24th birthday) Five U.S. Alpine Championship titles One World Cup victory (1994, super-G at Whistler) Inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2003

World Cup results

Season standings Season Age Overall Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 1990 20 97 — — — 36 — 1991 21 74 — — — 29 — 1992 22 79 — — 49 40 31 1993 23 31 — — 26 19 48 1994 24 8 — — 3 8 4 1995 25 28 — — 11 18 12 1996 26 152 — — 62 65 — 1997 27 87 — — 50 35 — 1998 28 72 — — 32 35 —

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

World Championship results

The Super-G in 1993 was canceled after multiple weather delays.

Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 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 in Ishpeming, Michigan five years later, and is a co-owner of Tordrillo Mountain Lodge in the Alaska Range. He lives in Wilson, Wyoming. He serves as an ambassador of skiing at nearby Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village, Wyoming.

Personal Moe and longtime girlfriend Megan Gerety, also a skier who competed in downhill and super-G at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, married in 2003; they have two daughters and live in Wilson.