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Tara Geraghty-Moats

American nordic combined skier and ski jumper, biathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ13564364 ↗
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Tara Geraghty-Moats (born April 12, 1993) is an American ski jumper, Nordic combined and biathlete skier. In ski jumping she has competed at World Cup level since the 2014/15 season, with her best individual result being ninth place in Râșnov on February 8, 2015; her best team finish is seventh in Zaō on 20 January 2018.

In Nordic combined, she won the 2018/19 Continental Cup season with ten consecutive wins out of eleven competitions. In December 2020 she won the first ever Nordic combined women’s World Cup competition.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2014, 2015, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-04-12. The account is most persuasive where Tara, Geraghty-Moats and American can be independently traced.
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