Gundolf Thoma

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Gundolf Thoma

Gundolf Thoma (born March 20, 1965 in Hinterzarten ) is a former German ski racer .

Life

Thoma was born as the son of the ski instructor Ottmar Thoma. The Olympic base in Freiburg-Black Forest was named after his uncle Georg Thoma . Gundolf Thoma successfully competed in ski jumping until he was twelve , but then decided to go into alpine racing . As the best Black Forest youth runner, he was German youth champion in slalom in 1983 . From 1982 to 1990 Thoma was a member of various DSV cadres. In 1986 and 1987 he was part of the World Cup team, where he finished 25th in 1986 in Kitzbühel .

In 1986 and 1988, Thoma was third in the German Slalom Championship. Serious knee problems did not allow a more successful career. Nevertheless, between 1985 and 1990 he won several international FIS races and came fourth twice in the so-called CISM World Championship.

Before the 1990/91 season, Thoma accepted an offer to start on the US Pro Ski Tour and the Japan Pro Ski Tour. The parallel ski races, in which man against man and in a knockout system, were run by Thoma, he was "Rookie of the year 1991" in Japan. In the first race of the US Pro Tour season 91/92 in Schladming he was so injured that until 1993 he only took part in a few professional ski races. Thoma was also a very respected ski demonstrator in Japan and starred in several successful ski films for the Japanese TV station Wowow before he returned to his homeland, the Black Forest . There he took over the cross-country skiing school of his uncle Georg Thoma in Hinterzarten and founded other ski and snowboard schools on the Feldberg in the Black Forest. Thoma was a sports soldier from 1984 to 1992 . First four years with the sports group in the Black Forest barracks and then four years in Sonthofen.

Thoma is the originator of the CarveDuell, a ski race that does not involve poles, but buoys, and man against man without sticks. This format was also used for the FIS Carving Cup .

Thomas's ski history is documented in the ski museum in Hinterzarten, which was initiated by his uncle.

Thoma founded the winter sports school Thoma am Seebuck in 1995 and Schneesport Thoma in Feldberg-Grafenmatt in 2004 . Around the year 2000, Thoma developed a new teaching method (“Ski in a Day-by Gundi Thoma”), with which the ski course was adapted to the fast-moving zeitgeist of the 2000s.

Private

Thoma is married and has two grown daughters.

From 2008 to 2014 he was a member of the board of a local ski club.

Thoma volunteers as an ambassador for the Federal Children's Hospice Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official results list Hahnenkamm 1986. Accessed on July 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Overview of results at www.sport-komplett.de
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: Ski museum is growing - Hinterzarten - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on October 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Schwarzwälder Skimuseum Hinterzarten eV
  5. ^ Badische Zeitung: New faces on the board - Feldberg - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on October 21, 2018]).
  6. ^ Bundesverband Kinderhospiz eV - 52 weeks - Gundolf Thoma. Retrieved October 22, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Thoma, Gundolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinterzarten