Tara Geraghty-Moats

Tara Geraghty-Moats
nation	United States
birthday	April 12, 1993
place of birth	West Fairlee , Vermont ,  USA
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping biathlon
society	Lebanon Outing Club
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
National Medals (SP) 1 × 3 × 0 × National Medals (NK) 2 × 0 × 0 ×
US championships silver 2015 Park City Normal hill gold 2016 Lake Placid Normal hill silver 2018 Park City Large hill silver 2018 Park City Normal hill  US championships gold 2014 Park City Single NK gold 2018 Park City Single NK
Ski jumping Debut in the World Cup 05th December 2014 Debut in the Continental Cup August 28, 2007 Overall World Cup 28. ( 2015/16 ) Summer Grand Prix 19. ( 2017 ) Continental Cup 54th ( 2007/08 ) Blue Bird Tour 41st ( 2019 )
Nordic combination Debut in the Continental Cup December 14, 2018 Grand Prix victories (individual) 04 ( details ) Continental Cup victories 15 ( details ) Grand Prix 01. ( 2018 ) Continental Cup 01. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix singles 4th 1 0  Continental Cup Singles 13 1 0  Continental Cup mass start 2 1 0
last change: March 12, 2020

Tara Geraghty-Moats (born April 12, 1993 in West Fairlee , Vermont ) is an American winter athlete who is active as a ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete and has also been a biathlete in between .

Career

Ski jumping

Geraghty-Moats started skiing and Nordic combined as a teenager. At the age of 12 in October 2005, she was nominated for the Ski Jumping Continental Cup for the first time , but did not take part in Lake Placid . Two years later, in August 2007, it started and immediately achieved the points with 18th place. She was also successful in the second competition one day later. However, it took another year until she competed again in international competitions. In December 2008 she started in Park City and reached 27th place twice, with which she reached 75th place overall at the end of the season. This was her last international appearance as a special jumper for a long time.

At the US Ski Jumping Championships in 2014, she was 5th on the normal hill. At the US Championships in 2015, she reached 4th place on the normal hill and 2nd place on the large hill.

Her best result so far in the Women's Ski Jumping World Cup she achieved on February 8, 2015 on the Trambulina Valea Cărbunării normal hill in Râșnov, Romania, with ninth place. She then finished 18th at the 2015 World Championships in Falun, Sweden . In 2015/16 she was 28th in the overall World Cup ranking, which is her best overall ranking in ski jumping so far.

At the US Championships in 2016, Geraghty-Moats became champion of the normal hill of the MacKenzie Intervale Ski Jumping Complex in Lake Placid . Two years later, she was able to take second place behind Nita Englund on both the large hill and the normal hill at the 2018 US Championships in Park City .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld , Geraghty-Moats took tenth place together with Logan Sankey , Nina Lussi and Nita Englund in the women's team competition, which was held for the first time. At the end of the season, Geraghty-Moats announced that she would now concentrate on Nordic combined, which is why she is no longer in the ski jumping squad for the 2019/20 season. Contrary to contrary claims, she started the 2019/20 World Cup in Lillehammer , where she did not make any competition jumps after a fall in qualification. Due to a small number of competitions in her main discipline, she started in Villach in the FIS Cup in mid-February 2020 , where she reached the points.

Nordic combination

On October 13, 2014, Geraghty-Moats became the first US female champion in Nordic combined. Besides Gabby Armstrong, she was only one of two athletes.

At the Grand Prix on August 18, 2018 in Oberwiesenthal , Geraghty-Moats started for the first time in an FIS competition in Nordic Combined . With the second place behind the Russian Stefanija Nadymowa she reached the podium directly. A day later, she was able to win the second competition ahead of the Russian, which she and Nadymova won the overall ranking of the Grand Prix.

At the beginning of the second edition of the Women's Continental Cup in Nordic Combined, Geraghty-Moats competed in this series for the first time on December 14, 2018. She won the first competition of the new 2018/19 season in the local Steamboat Springs . She was also able to dominate the rest of the competitions with one exception. With ten wins in eleven competitions, Geraghty-Moats won the overall ranking of the Continental Cup by a clear margin.

In summer 2019 Geraghty-Moats won three of the four competitions of the 2019 Grand Prix . In the last competition she was disqualified, so that she only found herself in second place in the overall standings. She continued to lead the field at the start of the Continental Cup and won all three competitions on the opening weekend in Park City. At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne , Geraghty-Moats supported the participating Nordic combined women as a role model and symbolic figure. There she caught a cold, which prevented her from starting the second competition weekend in Rena . On her return to Eisenerz , she had to fight for the first time in a Continental Cup race and be satisfied with second place behind Anju Nakamura . With a total of five wins this season, Geraghty-Moats finally defended the overall victory.

biathlon

In 2010 Geraghty-Moats switched to biathlon as part of a school exchange in Sweden . There she was a student at the Sollefteå biathlon high school . At the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě she reached 66th place in singles, 58th place in sprint, 57th place in the pursuit and ranked 13th with the relay. A year later at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2012 in Kontiolahti she was able to rank 44 in the individual, rank 18 in the sprint and rank 52 in the pursuit achieve a significant improvement. However , she was never nominated for a place in the biathlon world cup . At the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2013 in Obertilliach , Geraghty-Moats achieved 62nd place in the individual and sprint. As an American who trains with the Swedes, she started in the open competitions of the Biathlon European Championships 2013 in Bansko . She was 40th in the individual and 37th in the sprint. She was lapped in the pursuit. With the season she reached the tenth place.

Her only success in biathlon was in 2013 when she became Swedish Junior Champion. After the 2013/14 season, she no longer competed in biathlon in international competitions.

successes

Nordic combination

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	19th August 2018	Oberwiesenthal	Gundersen normal hill
2.	August 25, 2019	Oberwiesenthal	Gundersen normal hill
3.	August 28, 2019	Klingenthal	Gundersen middle hill
4th	August 31, 2019	Oberhof	Gundersen normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	December 14, 2018	Steamboat Springs	Gundersen middle hill
02.	15th December 2018	Steamboat Springs	Gundersen middle hill
03.	19th December 2018	Park City	Gundersen normal hill
04th	5th January 2019	Otepää	Gundersen normal hill
05.	January 6, 2019	Otepää	Gundersen normal hill
06th	16th February 2019	Rena	Gundersen normal hill
07th	17th February 2019	Rena	Gundersen normal hill
08th.	March 8, 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Gundersen normal hill
09.	March 9, 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Mass start normal hill
10.	March 10, 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Gundersen normal hill
11.	December 13, 2019	Park City	Gundersen normal hill
12.	December 14, 2019	Park City	Mass start normal hill
13.	15th December 2019	Park City	Gundersen normal hill
14th	15th December 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Gundersen normal hill

statistics

Ski jumping

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2014/15	30th	0073
2015/16	28.	0092
2016/17	40.	0052

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2017	19th	0036
2018	40.	0011

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2007/08	54.	0021st
2008/09	75.	0008th
2013/14	16.	0048
2014/15	22nd	0075

Nordic combination

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2018	001.	0180
2019	002.	0300

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2018/19	001.	1000
2019/20	001.	0660

Web links

Commons : Tara Geraghty-Moats  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tara Geraghty-Moats in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Nordic Combined)
• Tara Geraghty-Moats in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (ski jumping)
• Tara Geraghty-Moats in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (cross-country skiing)
• Tara Geraghty-Moats in the IBU database (English) (biathlon)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rhoads and Geraghty-Moats US champions in ski jumping. In: berkutschi.com. October 10, 2016, accessed February 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ "I'm in this sport for the long run!" In: fis-ski.com. April 9, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Lillehammer: Maren Lundby wins season opening qualification. In: fis-ski.com. December 6, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Results of the US Nordic Combined Championships from October 13, 2014 (PDF), accessed on February 21, 2019
5. ↑ Gretchen Burkholder: Tara Geraghty-Moats, the Undefeated Women's Nordic Combined Pioneer. In: fasterskier.com. January 10, 2019, accessed February 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Athletes of the Week: Tara Geraghty-Moats (USA) & Jakob Lange (GER). In: fis-ski.com. December 17, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Geraghty-Moats selected as Youth Olympic Games Athlete Role Model. In: fis-ski.com. October 14, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
8. ^ COC-M / W: Norway remains undefeated on home ground in Rena. In: fis-ski.com. January 26, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Chelsea Little: Now a Swedish National Champion, Geraghty-Moats Says She's 'Still the American,' Plans Return . FasterSkier.com. May 10, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.