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Tommy Moe

Tommy Moe
— Alpine skier —
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Moe in Alaska in June 2006
Disciplines Downhill, Super G,
Combined
Born (1970-02-17) February 17, 1970 (age 47)
Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
World Cup debut March 17, 1990 (age 20)
(first top 15)
Retired June 1998 (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 – (19901998)
Wins 1 – (1 SG)
Podiums 7 – (3 DH, 4 SG)
Overall titles 0 – (8th in 1994)
Discipline titles 0 – (3rd in SG, 1994)

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.

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.

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, the 1990 season's final race.

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


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