Tommy Moe
Tommy Moe was born in Missoula, Montana, United States on February 17th, 1970 and is the Skier. At the age of 54, Tommy Moe biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Thomas Sven "Tommy" 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 years old and days before he turned 19, he competed in 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 Re, Sweden, in the 1990 season's final race.
Moe was the first American male ski racer to win two medals in a single Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway, winning gold and silver in the super-G at Kvitfjell in a remarkable result in 1994 Winter Olympics. At the time, Moe was a resident of Alaska, and after his Olympic triumphs, his father was shown on television waving the Alaska state flag.
Despite losing by 0.04 seconds to win the gold medal in the downhill, he quickly became a favorite among the crowd at Kvitfjell. On his 24th birthday, he came in second place in the super-G, finishing 0.09 seconds behind Germany's Markus Wasmeier. Despite not having won a World Cup title yet, his triumph came despite winning three podiums and having raced well the previous twelve months, beginning with a fifth place in the downhill at the 1993 World Championships in Japan. (He was a month after the Olympics, a super-G at Whistler, Canada, his sole World Cup victory) (He was a month after the Olympics).
In 1994, Moe's best World Cup appearance came in second, fourth, and eighth in both the downhill and overall rankings. (Since 1971, the World Cup has not included the Winter Olympics or World Championships results.)
Moe suffered a right knee injury at Kvitfjell in March 1995, during the same distance on which he had won his Olympic medals thirteen months earlier. Following his recovery, he never recovered his best form and missed the World Championships in 1997 after a fluke thumb injury in late January required surgery. He returned in March and took the downhill at the United States Alpine Championships in Maine. In 1998 at Nagano, Moe's third Olympic team assembled in Nagano and came in eighth in the super-G and twelfth race at Hakuba, finishing eighth. At the age of 28, he retired from competitive ski racing.