Tommy Ford

American alpine ski racer Tommy Ford competes in the World Cup. His best World Cup achievement to date was a first-place victory at a giant slalom competition in December 2019. He excels in both giant slalom and super-G and has competed in five World Championships and three Winter Olympics for the US.

Ford suffered a right femur fracture in the middle of the 2013 season while free skiing in La Clusaz, France. He underwent surgery in Annecy and then went back to the United States, skipping the 2013 World Championships and the 2014 Winter Olympics. Ford finished the 2017 season with five giant slalom top-20 finishes and was 25th overall. In Beaver Creek, Colorado’s giant slalom in December 2017, Ford finished in tenth place for the first time in his World Cup career. He finished twentieth in the giant slalom in Yongpyong during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Ford finished the month of March with two more top-ten finishes—a ninth at Kranjska Gora and an eighth at the World Cup finals in Åre—and finished the year ranked seventeenth in the giant slalom standings.

Ford finished the 2018/2019 giant slalom season with four top-ten finishes and was tenth overall. He finished fourth in the opening GS race in Sölden, Austria, to kick off the 2019/2020 season with his best result to date. A few weeks later, in December 2019, he won the giant slalom at Beaver Creek, earning his first World Cup podium position. He competed for the United States in the Winter Olympics in 2022.