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Height
5-11
Weight
165
 

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Olympian Tommy Ford is one of the fastest movers in ski racing. The U.S. Ski Team took notice after he locked four gold medals at the 2006 U.S. Junior Championships. That proved to be a good look, because Ford went on to score World Cup points in his rookie season and then grab a spot on the 2010 Olympic team for giant slalom.

Ford sat out the entire 2014 Olympic season while still recovering from a major freeskiing crash he suffered in France at the end of the 2013 winter. That didn’t stop him from fully applying himself in both injury recovery and education. Ford went back to school and put down two solid semesters at Dartmouth. The year off also gave his teammates a chance to win a few more U.S. Championship titles; something Ford has quickly become a legend for earning. What an impressive comeback for Ford in 2015. After earning himself a top 20 result at World Championships, Ford went on to grab two more top 30 results—one each at Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Kranjska Gora—along with a 2nd place finish in the GS at U.S. Alpine Championships in Sugarloaf, Maine. Looks like someone is back and better than ever...2016 can't come soon enough!

FIRST TRACKS
Ford grew up in Bend, OR and started to ski at Mt. Bachelor around age two. "My mother and father both raced and coached. My brother also raced so I have been around racing all of my life. I started with MBSEF around the age of seven. From there I just kept having fun and racing." He joined the U.S. Development Team right out of high school and has been climbing the ranks ever since.

OFF THE SNOW
Ford is into skateboarding, rock climbing, drawing, snapping photos and mountain biking. Also a big fan of filming and editing, he and teammate Nolan Kasper create short video edits from the road all season and post them on Ford's blog. Ford is a student at Dartmouth and probably the Pacific Northwest’s biggest WuTang fan.

 

Highlights

OLYMPICS
Teams: 2010
26th, GS, Vancouver, CAN, 2010

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Teams: 2011, 2015
19th, GS, Vail/Beaver Creek, USA, 2015
14th, SG, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER, 2011

WORLD CUP
21st, GS, Kranjska Gora, SLO, 2015
23rd, GS, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER, 2015
Finished season ranked 28th in GS with six top 25 finishes, 2012
First points in SG (11th, Hinterstoder, AUT, 2011)
Career first points (24th, GS, Alta Badia, ITA, 2009)

U.S. CHAMPIONSHIPS TITLES (8)
2012, SL, Winter Park, CO
2012, Combined, Winter Park, CO
2011, SG, Winter Park, CO
2011, GS, Winter Park, CO
2011, Combined, Winter Park, CO
2010, SL, Whiteface, NY
2010, GS, Whiteface, NY
2010, Combined, Whiteface, NY

OTHER
2012 Europa Cup giant slalom win in Zell am See, Austria
2011 Europa Cup giant slalom win in Meribel, France
Star of 2010 Audi documentary Truth in Motion: www.itunes.com/truthinmotion
2009 Junior Worlds slalom silver medalist
2009 and '08 Ski Racing Junior of the Year
Four gold medals at 2006 Junior Nationals

 


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