Lothar Thoms

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Lothar Thoms (born May 18, 1956 in Guben , Cottbus district , GDR ; † November 5, 2017 in Forst (Lausitz) ) was a German cyclist .

Life

Thoms was a German track cyclist from the GDR who had his greatest successes in the 1000-meter time trial : in 1980 he won the Olympic Games in Moscow (world record: 1: 02.995 minutes on July 22nd). From 1977 to 1981 he won the world title four times in a row, a success that only the Frenchman Arnaud Tournant could repeat in the 1000 m time trial from 1998 to 2001. In 1981, Thoms was voted the world's best cyclist by the Union Cycliste Internationale, the world cycling association, as well as GDR athlete of the year . For winning the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1984 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1982 he was second (behind Fredy Schmidtke , Federal Republic ) and in 1983 third in the world championships.

Thoms started for SC Cottbus and trained with Gerd Müller.

Professional

After the end of his sports career in 1985 he worked as a sports functionary and after the end of the GDR as an administrative clerk in his hometown and after qualification as a physiotherapist .

Thoms died after a long and serious illness on November 5, 2017 in the Forst Clinic.

Private

Thoms had a lifelong close friendship with his training mate Jens Glücklich.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lothar Thoms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stayer.de: "The devil was going on in Wünsdorf"
  2. ^ New Germany , August 22, 1980, p. 3
  3. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  4. ↑ Jan Lehmann: Olympic champion Lothar Thoms has died. In: lr-online.de. November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Mourning for Lothar Thoms. In: bdr-medienservice.de. November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Jens Glücklich: Happy's busy life . Recia-Verlag, 2012, p. 56 .
personal data
SURNAME Thoms, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben , Cottbus district , GDR
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2017
Place of death Forst (Lausitz)