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Toby Dawson Inducted into Skiers’ Hall of Fame

April 7, 2014
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Toby Dawson won two world champion medals in 2003 and served seven years on the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team. (Yonhap)

Toby Dawson, a Korean American athlete who won a bronze medal in men’s mogul skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics, has become the first man of Korean parentage to be inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

The retired mogul skier, along with Montana native Scot Schmidt, Kris “Fuzz” Fedderson and Aspen native John Clendenin, was inducted into the hall of fame on Saturday at a ceremony in Park City, Utah.

Dawson was orphaned in 1981, about three years after his birth in Busan, Korea. He was adopted by an American family in Colorado, where he first started skiing.

He made the U.S. Ski Team at age 19, and has since become “one of the great mogul skiers of his generation,” according to a description on the hall of fame website.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, he snagged a bronze, and in 2005, became the world champion in dual moguls. He won two world champion medals in 2003 and served seven years on the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team.

Dawson is currently a coach for the Korean national freestyle skiing team.