U.S. Alpine Racing Veteran Tommy Ford joins the Sweet Protection family
“I’m thrilled to partner with Sweet Protection as I continue to compete on the world’s stage. After speaking with the team at Sweet Protection it was clear they wanted to connect with the U.S. racing community even more than they have, and I wanted to work with them. It was a natural fit, and I’m very excited this partnership came together.”
-Tommy Ford
About Tommy Ford?
Creativity.
Olympics.
National Champion.
Crash & Return
Creativity.
Creativity, whether on skis or with a paint brush, has become synonymous with Tommy Ford and his noteworthy ski racing career. From there, he discovered his passion for the sport and joined the US development team right out of high school. The U.S. Ski Team then took notice after he locked four Gold Medals at the 2006 U.S. Junior Championships, and the rest as they say, is history.
Olympics.
Widely considered one of the fastest movers in ski racing, and placed 12th in the Giant Slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Ford also competed in the Giant Slalom in the 2018 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and has finished in the Top 20 in the Giant Slalom standings in the World Cup four of the past five years, including a personal-best fifth-place finish in 2020.
National Champion.
Originally from Bend, Ore., and a student of Dartmouth University, Ford has 14 top-10 finishes in World Cup Giant Slalom events during his career, and he is a nine-time national champion in the U.S. Championships, most recently in 2018.
Crash & Return
a horrific crash took him off of the snow for 330 days, He suffered a broken bone in his leg and a serious knee injury during a crash in January 2021, but he returned to racing during the Winter Olympics earlier this year and earned his first Top 10 finish in a World Cup race since the injury in Austria in October.
Athlete Info
Ford (right), is widely considered one of the fastest movers in ski racing, and placed 12th in the Giant Slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. He also competed in the Giant Slalom in the 2018 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and has finished in the Top 20 in the Giant Slalom standings in the World Cup four of the past five years, including a personal-best fifth-place finish in 2020.
Originally from Bend, Ore., and a student of Dartmouth University, Ford has 14 top-10 finishes in World Cup Giant Slalom events during his career, and he is a nine-time national champion in the U.S. Championships, most recently in 2018.
He suffered a season ending knee injury during a crash in January 2021, but returned to racing during the Beijing Winter Olympics earlier this year and earned his first Top 10 finish in a World Cup race since the injury in the season opener in Soelden, Austria, this October.
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