Jonny Moseley

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Jonny Moseley Freestyle skiing
Jonny Moseley in San Francisco (2005)
Full name Jonathan William Moseley
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 27th August 1975 (age 45)
place of birth San Juan , Puerto Rico , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
job Skier, entrepreneur,
TV and radio presenter
Career
discipline Moguls, Dual Moguls, Aerials,
Ballet, (combination)
society Squaw Valley Ski Team
Trainer Cooper Schell
status resigned
End of career February 12, 2002
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
X-Games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Nagano 1998 Moguls
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
bronze La Clusaz 1995 combination
Winter X Games logo X-Games
silver Crested Butte 1999 Big Air
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 15, 1993
 World Cup victories 15th
 Overall World Cup 1. (1994/95, 1995/96)
 Aerials World Cup 18th (1995/96)
 Mughal World Cup 1. (1997/98)
 Dual Moguls World Cup 3. (1995/96)
 Ballet World Cup 10. (1995/96)
 Combination World Cup 1. (1995/96)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 9 5 1
 Dual moguls 0 1 0
 combination 6th 4th 3
 

Jonathan William "Jonny" Moseley (born August 27, 1975 in San Juan , Puerto Rico ) is a former American freestyle skier . Initially he started in all disciplines, but in the course of his career he specialized in the moguls . In 1998 he became an Olympic champion in this discipline, he also won twice the overall freestyle World Cup and once each of the disciplines in combination and moguls . Due to the introduction of innovative tricks and great popularity with the public, he is considered one of the most influential freestyle skiers of all time. Long after the end of his career, he took part in numerous ski films and television programs.

biography

Childhood and youth

Jonny Moseley, like his two older brothers Jeff and Rick, was born in Puerto Rico , where his father worked as a real estate developer . Two years later the family moved back to Tiburon , a posh suburb of San Francisco , California , and Moseley senior rediscovered his love for skiing. Every winter weekend he took his sons to Squaw Valley , where Jonny first skied at the age of three. After ski school , he joined the Mighty Mite Ski Racing program and began to compete with his peers in alpine , open terrain and moguls . His brother Jeff, who is six years older than him, was the first to choose freestyle after shooting the teen ski film Hot Dog ... The Movie! had seen.

The three brothers were accepted into the Squaw Valley Freestyle Team. At the age of 14 Jonny took part in the World Mogul Camp in Whistler-Blackcomb and met his future coach Cooper Schell. While Jeff quit competitive sports after high school, Jonny and five-year-old Rick pursued their plans and made it to the US ski team. At the age of 15 Jonny had his first major success by winning the national youth championships.

Athletic career

On January 15, 1993 Moseley made his debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Breckenridge . Although the first Olympic freestyle competitions in 1992 went without the aerials and ballet disciplines , he kept them to preserve his chances of winning the overall World Cup. In December 1993 he finished third in the combination of Tignes for the first time a World Cup podium, but still missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in Lillehammer . Brother Rick, a kind of mentor and trainer for Jonny, was also unable to qualify and ended his active career.

In the following season, Jonny Moseley was able to establish himself among the world's best. The all-rounder won the combinations of aerials, ballet and moguls in Kirchberg and Hundfjället and, thanks to three further podium placements, also prevailed in the overall freestyle World Cup. He also won the bronze medal in combination at his first world championship in La Clusaz . In his strongest individual discipline, Moguls, he finished 15th. In the winter of 1995/96 he was able to win a competition on the moguls for the first time in Lake Placid and repeat his triumph in the overall World Cup with a total of six victories this season. With a view to the Olympic Games in Nagano , he renounced the aerials and ballet disciplines from 1997 and concentrated fully on the moguls. At the World Championships in the Olympic site, however, he did not get past 12th place.

At the beginning of the 1997/98 World Cup season, Moseley won the first two Moguls races and thus safely qualified for the games in Japan. The Olympic final in Iizuna Kōgen was the absolute highlight of his career. With a double twister spread and a specially practiced 360 mute grave over the second kicker , he was crowned Olympic champion in a sovereign manner and won the first US medal at the Games. The prime-time television broadcast made him a superstar in his home country, including appearances on David Letterman and a Rolling Stone cover. In addition, at the end of the season he won the Moguls discipline in the World Cup for the first and only time, ahead of the defending champion and former Olympic champion Jean-Luc Brassard .

Moseley used the newly won fame to campaign for the FIS for permission to start at events outside of the World Cup. In 1999 he was allowed to take part in the third Winter X-Games in Crested Butte and won the silver medal in Big Air . This made him the first Olympic medalist to win precious metal at the X Games. A year later he was also victorious in Big Air at the US Open, where he showed a Flatspin 900. After two winters denied any FIS competitions and instead on the new Pro Mogul tour was launched, gave Moseley 2001 with a view to the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City his World Cup comeback. In the Olympic finals in Deer Valley , he clearly missed defending his title in fourth place because, on the one hand, he set the second-slowest final time of all 16 participants and, on the other hand , he showed his new jump dinner roll , which was not very popular with the jury.

Following the Games, Moseley ended his active career at the age of 26.

Further career

Jonny Moseley at the Ice Air 2006

Jonny Moseley had already been discovered for television during his sports career due to his relaxed personality and the visual similarity to Tom Cruise . He gained his first experience in front of the camera while shooting ski films and commercials. In a live interview from Japan shortly after his Olympic victory, he answered a question from talk show host David Letterman after his jump in a typical way:

David Letterman: “What's the deal with that move?”
Jonny Mosely: "There's no deal at all. It's a good way to check out the crowd while I'm coming down the hill."

Back in the States, he was invited to the late night show and performed the jump on a soap-smeared wooden jump outside the studio in the pouring rain. Although it ended up in a huge, inflated pillow, he later called this stunt the most dangerous thing he had ever done on skis.

In 2001 Moseley was the godfather of the PS2 game Mad Trix , the plot of which is partly set in snowy San Francisco. This first trick-based ski video game was programmed based on original recordings of the athlete. In March 2002, he was given the honor of hosting an edition of Saturday Night Live . Several engagements followed as a presenter of television programs and as a commentator for NBC and ESPN . Between 2003 and 2005 he hosted three seasons of the MTV - reality game show Real World / Road Rules Challenge , in 2012 and 2013 eight episodes of the G4 show American Ninja Warrior . At Fox Sports Net he hosted the show Snow Zone with Jonny Moseley . Apart from his TV career, Moseley took part in numerous ski films. Since 2007 he has acted as a narrator in the films of the well-known genre director Warren Miller and his production company Warren Miller Entertainment, in which he was seen several times in front of the camera.

Moseley branded its name and serves its Squaw Valley home ski resort as a promotional face as well as Chief Mountain Host. He moderates a weekly radio program on Sirius Satellite Radio and has been running the Jonny Moseley's Wildest Dreams podcast since 2017 , in which he presents various action sports.

In 2019 he opened a sports bar in Corte Madera .

Private life

In March 2006 in Telluride , Colorado , Moseley married his longtime partner, business manager Malia Rich. He lives with his wife and two sons (* 2007 and * 2010) in California. After dropping out of business and finance majoring at UC Davis in 1995 in favor of sports , he earned a BA in American Studies from UC Berkeley in 2007 . In addition to skiing, he spends his free time water skiing , wakeboarding and doing handicrafts on his '64 Pontiac Bonneville .

Style and reception

Jonny Moseley at the San Francisco Ice Air 2007

Inspired by his numerous television appearances, Jonny Moseley became one of the most popular winter sports enthusiasts in the USA and enjoys legendary status in his home country. Its influence on the further development of freestyle and especially mogul skiing is considered undisputed. After snowboarding had dominated the scene towards the end of the 1990s, freestyle skiing moved back into the public eye through Moseley. His experience in the disciplines of aerials and ballet helped him to acquire the tricks of a young generation, which called themselves "The New Canadian Air Force", and to establish them on the moguls. Because his supplier K2 had not yet developed any twintips , he took part in the X Games in 1999 with conventional mogul piste skis.

Two tricks and jumps in particular remained closely associated with his name: The 360 mute grave , also known as the iron cross or helicopter , a full turn with crossed skis and touch, became his trademark and secured him Olympic gold in 1998. He was inspired to touch the ski by a water skier and first showed the trick in the 1997 film Breeze . Because the jump was not included in the FIS rules at the time, he had to be encouraged by his trainer to show it in competition. He did that for the first time in the Breckenridge World Cup just a week before the Olympics - and won. On his second and last Olympic participation Moseley in 2002 made the leap Dinner Roll (English for bread ), an off-axis 720-degree rotation, stir. However, he had to convince the FIS beforehand , which did not allow somersaults in the Moguls disciplines , and sent those responsible a slow motion of himself. These allowed the jump, but did not give it a particularly high level of difficulty.

"I knew I was never going to get FIS to allow inverted tricks, so I filmed the jump from four different angles and sent them a video where my feet did not go above my head. I was so happy that I overlooked the low point value they had given it. "

“I knew I would never get the FIS to allow upside down tricks, so I filmed the jump from four different angles and sent them a video of my feet not going over my head. I was so happy that I overlooked the low score they gave him. "

- Jonny Moseley

Some of Moseley's comrades-in-arms criticized him for the extraordinary trick, saying that the Olympic finals were not a place for innovation or experimentation. He himself later stated, contrary to the initial euphoria and positive audience reactions, that he preferred to have won the gold medal. With the start of the 2002/03 season, the international ski association finally allowed somersaults on the mogul slope and gave the dinner roll a significantly higher rating.

The athlete Jonny Moseley also distinguished himself through new, unconventional training methods. As one of the first freestyle skiers, he rejected the classic alpine fitness program and focused on the trampoline and off-road. To do this, he dug holes in a steep mound of earth, through which he simulated waving over a mogul slope with nimble downward jumps . Before the 1996/97 season, he consulted a sports psychologist who should help him achieve his goals. He and his team spent the last days before his Olympic start in 1998, isolated from the outside world and, in addition to rap music , consumed inspiring films such as Days of Thunder .

Moseley received several awards and honors during his active career. In 1994 he was named World Cup Rookie of the Year. After his Olympic victory in 1998, Mayor Willie Brown awarded him the Key to the City of San Francisco. He was also named Athlete of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee . In 2006 the US Ski and Snowboard Association honored him with the induction into the National Ski Hall of Fame. In his home ski area, Squaw Valley, a black slope was named after him on Mount KT-22 . In 2019 the USOC nominated him for the first time for induction into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Aerials Moguls Dual moguls ballet combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1992/93 115. 3 - - - - - - 33. 24 - -
1993/94 37. 57 38. 48 22nd 216 - - 23. 192 5. 540
1994/95 1. 164 26th 196 6th 540 - - 12. 440 3. 542
1995/96 1. 203 18th 408 2. 724 3. 184 10. 472 1. 400
1996/97 16. 79 - - 5. 396 5. 320 - - - -
1997/98 2. 99 - - 1. 596 42. 4th - - - -
2000/01 37. 42 - - 19th 168 - - - - - -
2001/02 49. 33 - - 25th 196 - - - - - -

World Cup victories

Moseley achieved 29 podium places in the World Cup, of which 15 wins:

date place country discipline
February 24, 1995 Kirchberg Austria combination
March 10, 1995 Hundfjället Sweden combination
5th January 1996 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 13, 1996 Blackcomb Canada Moguls
January 20, 1996 Breckenridge United States combination
January 25, 1996 Mont Tremblant Canada combination
January 28, 1996 Mont Tremblant Canada combination
March 9, 1996 Hundfjället Sweden combination
December 13, 1996 La Plagne France Moguls
December 19, 1997 La Plagne France Moguls
December 20, 1997 La Plagne France Moguls
January 30, 1998 Breckenridge United States Moguls
March 9, 1998 Hundfjället Sweden Moguls
March 14, 1998 Altenmarkt - Zauchensee Austria Moguls
January 11, 2002 Saint-Lary France Moguls

More Achievements

Filmography

Ski films

  • 1998: A Fistful of Moguls
  • 1998: Freeriders
  • 1998: Uprising
  • 1999: Fifty
  • 2000: There's Something About McConkey
  • 2008: Children of Winter
  • 2009: Dynasty
  • 2010: Winter Convention
  • 2011: ... Like There's No Tomorrow
  • 2011: Like a Lion
  • 2012: Flow State
  • 2014: No Turning Back
  • 2014: Snowman
  • 2015: Chasing Shadows
  • 2015: Dog Days of Winter
  • 2016: Here, There & Everywhere
  • 2017: Line of Descent
  • 2019: Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story
  • 2019: On Thin Ice

Television (selection)

  • 1998: Extreme World Records (TV movie)
  • 1999: The Superstars (TV movie)
  • 2002: Saturday Night Live (TV show, episode 27x13)
  • 2003–2005: Real World / Road Rules Challenge (TV show)
  • 2010: Skating with the Stars (TV show)
  • 2012–2013: American Ninja Warrior (TV show)
  • 2012–2014: The Challenge: After Show (TV show)
  • 2013: American Dad (TV series, episode 9x19)
  • 2013: Undercover Boss (TV show, episode 4x11)
  • since 2017: Jonny Moseley's Wildest Dreams (Podcast)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jonny Moseley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ken Castle: Here's Jonny! In: Ski. September 1998, pp. 160-164 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Graham Bell: Meet Jonny Moseley, the man who made freestyle skiing cool again. The Telegraph , December 14, 2016, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b George Vecsey: A Triumph by Moseley in Freestyle Moguls Gives US First Medal. The New York Times , February 11, 1998, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ About Jonny. Jonny Moseley, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ John Crumpacker: Dinner Rolls satisfy Moseley / Despite finishing 4th, Tiburon skier happy his move succeeded. SF Gate, February 13, 2002, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Liz Clarke: Lahtela Not Fans' Choice. The Washington Post , February 13, 2002, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Erik West: Trix Aren't Just for Kids. In: Skiing. December 2001, p. 58 (English).
  9. ↑ a b Chris Santella: Squaw Valley USA. Recommended by Jonny Moseley. In: Fifty Places to Ski & Snowboard Before You Die. Abrams Books, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1617690549 (English).
  10. ↑ a b # 117 - Jonny Moseley - Skiing Legend. Low Pressure Podcast, December 20, 2018, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Chelsea Davis: Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley Is Now In the Sports Bar Biz. Forbes , June 26, 2019, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  12. ^ Ulrica Wihlborg: Olympian Jonny Moseley Marries. People , March 25, 2006, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Most Influential Mogul Skier Jonny Moseley. Outside TV / YouTube , December 31, 2018, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Jonny Moseley Biography. AAE Speakers, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Olympic Gold Medal Run 1998. Jonny Moseley / YouTube , accessed on January 12, 2020 (English).
  16. ^ Mary Firestone: Extreme Downhill Skiing Moves. Capstone High-Interest Books, Mankato 2004, ISBN 0-7368-2153-8 , p. 5 (English).
  17. ↑ Ashish Gupta: Jonny Moseley Outacks Them All: First to Win Olympic Gold, Now to Inspire Olympic Hopefuls. Bugcrowd, July 6, 2018, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Moseley Finalist for USOPC Hall of Fame Class of 2019. US Ski & Snowboard, August 12, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  19. ^ A b Hollis Brooks: US Freestyle Team - Jonny Moseley In: Skiing. November 1995, p. 115 (English).
  20. ^ Warren Miller - Jonny Moseley. Warren Miller, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Jonny Moseley. Internet Movie Database , accessed January 18, 2020 .
  22. ^ Jonny Moseley's Wildest Dreams. Visit California, accessed January 18, 2020 .
  23. ↑ a b 2017 US Ski & Snowboard Awards Manual. (PDF) US Ski & Snowboard, accessed on February 4, 2020 (English).
  24. ↑ Jonny Moseley - Hall of Fame Class of 2006. US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, accessed on January 18, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Moseley, Jonny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moseley, Jonathan William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH San Juan (Puerto Rico)