Dieter Thoma

Dieter Thoma

Personal information
Born	(1969-10-19) 19 October 1969 (age 56) Hinterzarten, West Germany
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country	West Germany (1985-90)   Germany (1990-1999)
Sport	Skiing
World Cup career
Seasons	1986–1999
Indiv. starts	202
Indiv. podiums	36
Indiv. wins	12
Team starts	7
Team podiums	4
Four Hills titles	1 (1990)
JP titles	1 (1997)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	211 m (692 ft) Planica, 22 March 1997
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Team LH 1998 Nagano Team LH 1994 Lillehammer Individual NH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 Ramsau Team LH 1995 Thunder Bay Team LH 1997 Trondheim Individual LH 1991 Val di Fiemme Team LH 1997 Trondheim Team LH Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1990 Vikersund Individual 1998 Oberstdorf Individual
Updated on 10 February 2016

Dieter Thoma (born 19 October 1969) is a West German/German former ski jumper.

Career

During that time he was the second best German ski jumper after Jens Weißflog. Thoma was not the first known ski jumper in the family: his uncle Georg Thoma was both world and Olympic champion in the nordic combined. Thoma won his first competition in 1990 when he won the Four Hills Tournament. He also won Ski-flying World Championships in Vikersund at the end of the 1989-90 season. Before the start of the 1993-94 season, Thoma changed his technique from jumping with parallel skis to the V-style, and was a part of the German team who won the team competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He also won a bronze medal in the individual normal hill in Lillehammer, then won a silver medal in the team large hill competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Thoma also won a bronze in the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1998 in Oberstdorf.

Thoma won five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, including one gold (Team large hill: 1999), two silvers (Team large hill: 1995, Individual large hill: 1997), and two bronzes (Team large hill: 1991 and 1997).

Thoma retired after the 1998/99 season.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT	JP
1985/86	58	81	N/A	N/A	N/A
1986/87	—	111	N/A	N/A	N/A
1987/88	15	26	N/A	N/A	N/A
1988/89		4	N/A	N/A	N/A
1989/90	4		N/A	N/A	N/A
1990/91			9	N/A	N/A
1991/92	42	14	—	N/A	N/A
1992/93	42	20	—	N/A	N/A
1993/94	11	8	—	N/A	N/A
1994/95	18	13	22	N/A	N/A
1995/96	25	11	—	N/A	25
1996/97			17	10
1997/98	8	6	28	31	7
1998/99	10	10	21	22	10

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	1988/89	3 December 1988	Thunder Bay	Big Thunder K89	NH
2		30 December 1988	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115	LH
3	1989/90	3 December 1989	Thunder Bay	Big Thunder K120	LH
4		30 December 1989	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115	LH
5		12 January 1990	Harrachov	Čerťák K120	LH
6	1990/91	16 December 1990	Sapporo	Ōkurayama K115	LH
7		12 January 1991	Oberhof	Hans-Renner-Schanze K120	LH
8	1996/97	30 November 1996	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken K120 (night)	LH
9		29 December 1996	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115	LH
10		6 January 1997	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120	LH
11		19 January 1997	Sapporo	Ōkurayama K120	LH
12	1997/98	29 November 1997	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken K120 (night)	LH

Invalid ski jumping world record

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
22 March 1997	Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185	Planica, Slovenia	213	699

  Not recognized! Crash at world record distance.

References

• Dieter Thoma at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation