Jacob Tullin Thams

Jacob Tullin Thams
nation	Norway
birthday	April 7, 1898
place of birth	Oslo ,  Norway
job	Deep sea nematrose
date of death	July 27, 1954
Place of death	Oslo ,  Norway
Career
discipline	Ski jumping sailing
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1924 Chamonix Large hill  Olympic games silver 1936 Berlin Sailing 8 m class  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1924 Chamonix Large hill gold 1926 Lahti Large hill

Jacob Tullin Thams (born April 7, 1898 in Oslo ; † July 27, 1954 there ) was a Norwegian ski jumper , cross-country skier and sailor . With ski jumping gold in 1924 and sailing silver in 1936, he is one of only six athletes who have won a medal at both the Winter and Summer Olympics. The others are Gillis Grafström , Edward Eagan , Christa Luding-Rothenburger , Clara Hughes and Lauryn Williams .

Career

Thams was a deep sea sailor by trade.

At the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , he won the gold medal in ski jumping. Since the Nordic World Ski Championships were held this year as part of the Olympic Games, he was also world champion with his Olympic victory. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1926 he was again world champion, in the same year he received the Holmenkollen Medal .

At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he could have repeated his 1924 victory. After the first jump he was in fifth place, in the second run he jumped the world record distance of 73 meters, but fell on landing and was only 28th because of the bad posture marks. Before that, Thams had complained to the Swiss jury that the The run-up was chosen too long and therefore mediocre jumpers would be given an advantage, but the good jumpers could reach dangerous distances.

At the 1936 Summer Olympics sailing competitions held in the Kiel Fjord , Thams won a silver medal as a team member in the Norwegian boat of the 8mR class Silja .

Web links

• Jacob Tullin Thams in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jacob Tullin Thams in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )