Born and raised in Bend , Oregon , Ford learned to ski when he was two years old at Mount Bachelor . His father and mother both worked there as ski instructors. He later graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . Ford contested his first FIS races in December 2004. He achieved his first major successes at the US Junior Championships in March 2006 when he won the slalom, giant slalom, Super-G and combined and was second in the downhill. From 2007 to 2009 he took part in three Junior World Championships . While his best result in 2007 was 22nd place in the slalom, in 2008 he was fourth in the giant slalom, just behind the medal ranks. At the 2009 Junior World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won silver in slalom. Ski Racing Magazine named him Junior of the Year in both 2008 and 2009 .
In the Nor-Am Cup Ford was from January 2007 at the start. In the 2007/08 season he reached his first top 10 placings and in the last race of the winter, the giant slalom on Whiteface Mountain , his first victory. In the 2008/09 season he remained without podium places, but came in a total of nine times in the top ten and thus in tenth place in the overall standings. The second victory he achieved on March 16, 2010 in the giant slalom of Waterville Valley . In the World Cup Ford debuted on 25 October 2009 at the giant slalom in Soelden . He got his first World Cup points on December 20th of the same year with 24th place in the giant slalom on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia . In March 2010 he won his first US championship title in slalom, giant slalom and combined. In the Nor-Am Cup he celebrated two victories in the 2010/11 season and came second in the giant slalom classification. As in the previous year, he was also three-time US champion in 2011, this time in super-G, giant slalom and combined.
In the 2011/2012 World Cup season , Ford was among the top 20 in four giant slaloms, with a twelfth place in Bansko being his best result of the season. In Nor-ammonium and in the European Cup , he won this winter ever a giant slalom. At the end of winter he won another two US championship titles in slalom and combined. While skiing freely in La Clusaz , France , in mid-January 2013 he broke his thighbone in his right leg and had to undergo an operation. Because of this serious injury, she was unable to race for over a year and a half. He only returned to the World Cup towards the end of the 2014/15 season and was twice among the top 30. The 2015/16 season was marked by numerous failures, his best World Cup result was a twelfth place. It was enough for him to finish 13th in the 2016/17 season
Gradually, Ford felt its way to the top of the world. At the end of the 2017/18 World Cup season , he was twice in the top ten, and after a six-year break he again won a US championship title. In the 2018/19 World Cup , four more top 10 placements were added; best result was 5th place in Alta Badia. Ford made the final breakthrough in the giant slalom discipline in the 2019/20 World Cup : after finishing fourth at the season opener in Sölden , he drove somewhat surprisingly to his first World Cup victory on December 8, 2019 in Beaver Creek . He confirmed this result two months later with third place in Naeba .
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