12 Facts About Tommy Moe

Tommy Moe refined his skills as a teenager in Alaska at Alyeska, near Anchorage, where he attended the Glacier Creek Ski Academy.

Tommy Moe joined the US Ski Team in 1986 at age 16.

Tommy 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.

Tommy Moe earned his first World Cup points in March 1990 with a 13th-place finish at Are, Sweden, the 1990 season's final race.

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

Tommy Moe then placed second in the super-G on his 24th birthday, finishing 0.09 seconds behind Markus Wasmeier of Germany.

Tommy Moe's 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.

In March 1995, Tommy Moe suffered a right knee injury at Kvitfjell, on the same race course on which he won his Olympic medals thirteen months earlier.

Tommy Moe made his third US Olympic team in 1998 at Nagano, and finished eighth in the super-G and twelfth in the downhill at Hakuba.

Tommy 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.

Tommy Moe serves as an ambassador of skiing at nearby Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

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