Dieter Thoma (ski jumper)

Dieter Thoma
Dieter Thoma as ski jumping presenter for ARD (2015)
nation	Federal Republic of Germany Germany
birthday	19th October 1969
place of birth	Hinterzarten ,  Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
Pers. Best	211 m ( Planica 1997)
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 2 × SFWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × National medals 14 × 7 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1994 Lillehammer Normal hill gold 1994 Lillehammer team silver 1998 Nagano team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1991 Val di Fiemme team silver 1995 Thunder Bay team silver 1997 Trondheim Large hill bronze 1997 Trondheim team gold 1999 Ramsau team  Ski flying world championships gold 1990 Vikersund singles bronze 1998 Oberstdorf singles  German championships gold 1986 team gold 1987 Large hill gold 1987 team bronze 1987 Normal hill gold 1988 team silver 1988 Normal hill gold 1989 Large hill gold 1989 team silver 1989 Normal hill gold 1990 team bronze 1991 Oberstdorf team gold 1992 Oberhof team silver 1992 Oberhof Normal hill gold 1993 Oberhof Large hill gold 1993 Oberwiesenthal team silver 1995 Titisee-Neustadt Large hill gold 1996 Oberhof team gold 1997 Titisee-Neustadt Large hill gold 1997 Baiersbronn Normal hill silver 1997 Baiersbronn team gold 1998 Ruhpolding team silver 1998 Ruhpolding Large hill silver 1998 Ruhpolding Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1985
World Cup victories (individual)	12 ( details )
Overall World Cup	02. ( 1996/97 )
Ski flying world cup	06. (1997/98)
Jump World Cup	01. (1996/97)
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 1989/90 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 12 13 9  Ski flying 0 1 1  Team jumping 0 1 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	16. ( 1997 )

Dieter Thoma (born October 19, 1969 in Hinterzarten ) is a former German ski jumper and today's TV expert on the ARD ski jumping broadcasts . He was one of the world's best in his discipline in the 1990s .

Career

Thoma grew up with four siblings in Hinterzarten in a family closely related to winter sports . His father Franz, a member of the German national team as a cross-country skier himself in the 1960s, founded an alpine ski center in 1967 with the construction of three ski lifts. Dieter Thoma was not the first successful ski jumper in his family: his uncle Georg Thoma was world champion and Olympic champion in Nordic combined in the 1960s .

Dieter Thoma made his first attempts at jumping at the age of six. At the age of 16 he won the German championship title for the first time and was junior world champion. He scored his first World Cup points on January 1, 1986 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with eleventh place. At the age of only 19 he won his first World Cup in Thunder Bay . Two years later (1990) he was the first West German to triumph in the prestigious Four Hills Tournament, 30 years after Max Bolkart, and at the end of the season he was also world ski flying champion in Vikersund, Norway . Thoma then established himself among the world's best. With the development of the changeover from parallel to V-style, which began in the early 1990s, Thoma initially couldn't cope with the 1991/92 season. He was one of those jumpers who continued to seek success in the traditional jump variant. At the same time, an operation on the left lateral meniscus in March 1992 meant that he was unable to exercise much the following summer. In this phase of his career, sporting successes were largely absent.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in February 1993 , he was kicked out of the team by DSV sports supervisor Detlef Braun and national ski jumping coach Rudi Tusch because of “a lack of willingness to perform, which was also reflected in a corresponding lack of performance”. In team jumping on the K120 large hill, his team, which consisted of Christof Duffner , Jens Weißflog and Gerd Siegmund in addition to Thoma , achieved eleventh place, the worst World Championship result since the competition was introduced eleven years earlier.

Before the 1993/94 season, Dieter Thoma switched his technology from the now outdated parallel to the V style . A year later he won the gold medal in the team competition with the German team at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . He also achieved bronze on the normal hill. In total, Thoma won 10 medals at world championships and the Olympic Games. In the 1996/97 season he finished second in the overall World Cup.

After the 1998/99 season, which ended with winning the World Cup team gold medal, Thoma resigned from competitive sports due to many injuries and severe pain. A total of eight knee operations, two complicated thigh operations as well as a broken arm and some concussions were the background.

On New Year's Eve 1999/2000 he finally ended his career as a ski jumper at exactly midnight with a "millennium jump" or "millennium jump" from the ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . On December 31, 1999 at 11:59:50 p.m., he jumped from the Great Olympic Hill to land on January 1, 2000 at 0:00 a.m. in the year 2000.

Activity on television

When the private television broadcaster RTL secured the transmission rights to selected jumping competitions at the beginning of the new millennium, Thoma was hired as an expert. For many years he moderated the RTL ski jumping broadcasts together with Günther Jauch , with whom he was also nominated twice for the German TV Prize. For his work as an expert, Thoma won two media awards with the Golden Victoria and in 2002 with the Bavarian TV Prize.

Dieter Thoma 2005

After RTL withdrew from broadcasting further competitions in the summer of 2007, Thoma switched to ARD as an expert in ski jumping broadcasts at the beginning of the 2007/08 season . Here he moderated first with Monica Lierhaus and later with Valeska Homburg , since the 2011/12 season he can be seen together with Matthias Opdenhövel .

Among other things, Thoma works on various projects (golf / ski jumping) and passes on his knowledge from 15 years of high-performance sport and years of television moderation as a speaker at seminars, incentives, conferences and sports courses under the motto: "If you hold on to the past with one hand, you only have one free for the future. "

Further commitment

Together with Harry Bodmer, Thoma organizes benefit tournaments for a good cause. The proceeds from this will go to Spielend Helfen eV He is also a keynote speaker and lecturer and gives presentations on the subjects of motivation, sport and success.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	country
1.	3rd December 1988	Thunder Bay	Canada
2.	December 30, 1988	Oberstdorf	Germany
3.	3rd December 1989	Thunder Bay	Canada
4th	December 30, 1989	Oberstdorf	Germany
5.	January 12, 1990	Harrachov	Czech Republic
6th	December 15, 1990	Sapporo	Japan
7th	January 12, 1991	Oberhof	Germany
8th.	November 30, 1996	Lillehammer	Norway
9.	December 29, 1996	Oberstdorf	Germany
10.	January 6, 1997	Bischofshofen	Austria
11.	January 19, 1997	Sapporo	Japan
12.	November 29, 1997	Lillehammer	Norway

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1985/86	58.	0005
1987/88	15th	0056
1988/89	03.	0167
1989/90	04th	0206
1990/91	03.	0201
1991/92	41.	0010
1992/93	42.	0010
1993/94	11.	0350
1994/95	18th	0240
1995/96	25th	0249
1996/97	02.	1208
1997/98	08th.	0921
1998/99	10.	0555

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Lake Placid	United States	121.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	December 10, 1988	1999
Vikersund	Norway	171.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 25, 1990	February 18, 1995
Engelberg	Switzerland	126.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 15, 1995	January 15, 1995
innsbruck	Austria	120.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	4th January 1997	January 3, 2001
Sapporo	Japan	132.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 19, 1997	January 23, 1999
Trondheim	Norway	129.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 27, 1997	March 13, 1998
Oberstdorf	Germany	203.5 m ( HS : 225 m)	January 25, 1998	January 25, 1998
Oberstdorf	Germany	209.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	January 25, 1998	March 1, 2001
Sapporo	Japan	135.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 23, 1999	January 24, 1999
Bischofshofen	Austria	136.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 23, 1999	February 23, 1999

Private life

In 1995 Thoma married the German- Ghanaian Manuela Adofo, with whom he has a son and a daughter. The separation took place in 2000 and the divorce in 2001. In 2000 Thoma met his current wife, with whom he has a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Dieter Thoma  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dieter Thoma in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Literature by and about Dieter Thoma in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dieter Thoma in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Autographs", Sport-Bild from December 29, 1992, p. 21
2. ↑ Ski jumper Mr leaves: "He has definitely gambled away his credit". In: faz.net. February 18, 2006, accessed February 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Paths will part. In: neue-deutschland.de. February 25, 1993. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
4. ^ "Results without national leagues", Sport-Bild from March 3, 1993, p. 49
5. ↑ Notice board on the Olympic hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2013
6. ↑ http://www.spielendhelfen.de/home/content,4,dieter_thoma.html
7. ↑ nd of August 7, 1995
8. ↑ shortnews of August 8, 2000
9. ^ Thoma wife wanted to die, Abendblatt.de, May 23, 2001
10. ^ The black-red-hot night , bild.de of November 5, 2017