Thomas Abratis
Thomas Abratis ( born May 6, 1967 in Waldheim ) is a former German nordic combined.
Career
Abratis 1986 was the first East German champion in singles as well as with the team. He celebrated his first international success at the Junior World Championships in 1987, where he won the gold medal with the East German team. When held in the same year Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf, he was with the team in sixth. On December 17, 1988 Abratis launched for the first time in the Nordic Combined World Cup, and reached it in Saalfelden went straight to number nine and so World Cup points. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 in Lahti, he could, by winning the bronze medal in the team standings, achieving his greatest international success. After the World Cup he missed in Oslo with the fourth just under his first World Cup podium, could then reach the second place for the first time a place on the podium but in Falun, Sweden. In the following season 1989/90 he reached only top rankings, including a second place again, but this time in Oslo. At the end of the season he finished fifth in the overall World Cup standings. From 1991 Abratis started in parallel or in the B World Cup and was able to just reach podium. In February and March 1993, he also won two competitions in Oberhof and Hinterzarten.
From December 1993 he began firmly back in the World Cup, but could not build on the successes of 1989 and 1990. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he started in the individual and team competition in nordic combined. In individual he reached number 22 after he has located after jumping on rank 24. In the team competition, he reached the tenth with Thomas Dufter and Roland Brown. As of January 1995, he was also placed in the top ten in the World Cup again. Podiums were made , however. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay, he started only in the team competition and reached it with his team-mates to sixth place. At the German Championships 1996, he won the title in the individual competition. After being in the course of the year in the World Cup again was repeatedly drive under the top ten in January 1997 and finished in second place in the B- World Cup once again, he ended his playing career after the 1996/97 season. Previously, he could once again win the title with the team at the German Championships.
From 2000 to 2003 Abratis was vice-president of the VSC Klingenthal. Since 2003 he is Technical Delegate of the FIS Nordic Combined.