Georg Thoma
Georg Thoma ( born August 20, 1937 in Hinterzarten ) is a former German ski jumpers and Nordic combined. His nephew is the former ski jumper Dieter Thoma. The Olympic Training Center Freiburg, Black Forest was named after him.
Career
Thoma visited the elementary school and then worked as a logger until he was appointed to the Mittenwalder mountain troops. After the Mittenwalder mountain troops, he worked at Hinterzarten post. He mastered his work in the summer with the bike and in the winter with all-path boards. Even as a child began with the Thoma Skiing on, enters the age of 14 his first skiing competitions and opted for the Nordic Combined. He was also an excellent ski jumper and cross-country skiers.
In 1953 he came with the District Youth Skiing on the Feldberg for the first time with an organized competitive sport in touch. The Youth Officer of the Black Forest Ski Association recognized his talent made the Federation Board Dr. Stober attention to him. Even in winter 1953/54, he was sent on his first Springer course to feet, and was for the first time German Youth Champion in Nordic Combined in Onstmettingen. A season later, German Youth Champion was back in the combination and fourth in ski jumping on the big Hochfirstschanze in Titisee -Neustadt. In 1956 he defeated at the Feldberg at the German Youth Championships already the entire German junior in cross country skiing, ski jumping and in combination. In 1957 he won for the third time the German youth title in the combination and jumping in Winterberg, but in the long run he was beaten by Rudolf Maier. In 1958 he went for the first time with the national team at the Nordic World Ski Championships Lahti, where he was 16th in the Nordic combined and ski jumping 27.
After an iron training, he was nominated for the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley and was Olympic champion in the Nordic combined. 1960, 1961 and 1963 Thoma was three times German champion in ski jumping. In 1963 to 1965 he was winner at Holmenkollen. In his second Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck, he was able to win the bronze medal once again. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1966, he became world champion in the Nordic combined.
After his playing career, he stayed true to the skiing and competed in several fun runs. He participated six times in the Vasaloppet in Sweden. When Vasaloppet in March 1980, he finished almost 12,000 runners the 79th Place. A year later, he made a run time of 4:32:66 hours. With 45 years he was the Black Forest Champion in 15 -km cross-country skiing. He also jumped on smaller hills 60 meters and on flying hills up to 130 meters. Later, he was also a TV commentator.
Private
Thoma has been married to his wife Anne Marie and has a grown daughter, Marie - Louise. In his spare time he is in the summer on the bike, on skis go. In the great cycle race like the Giro d'Italia or Tour de France, it moves the stages from with. Thoma was eight senior world champion at the mountain classics. In his home Hinterzarten he built a ski museum with up and made himself guides.