Nicola Thost

Nicola Thost
Full name	Nicola Thost
nation	Germany
birthday	3rd May 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	Pforzheim , Germany
Career
discipline	Halfpipe , snowboard cross
National squad	since 1997
status	not active
End of career	2003
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1998 Nagano halfpipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup January 19, 1997  World Cup victories 4th
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 4th 2 1
TTR World Snowboard Tour
TTR debut May 4, 2009 last change: April 18, 2018

Nicola Thost (born May 3, 1977 in Pforzheim , Baden-Württemberg ) is a former German professional snowboarder who won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics .

Career

Nicola Thost started snowboarding at the age of 14 and only four years later she won the World Youth Championships in Poland. In 1996 she recorded her first successes with two titles at the Junior World Championship. After graduating from high school in 1996 at Reuchlin-Gymnasium , she devoted herself entirely to snowboarding and became a professional.

1998 Winter Olympics

In 1998 she won the Nagano Olympic Games in the halfpipe . Participation in her second Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 , for which she qualified at the FIS World Cup in Valle Navado in Chile, was endangered by a compressed broken spoke on her forearm. Nevertheless, she was able to participate and took eleventh place. When Thost tore her cruciate ligament again in 2003, the then 26-year-old declared her professional career over.

In her first comeback during the "Burton European Open" in 2009 she surprisingly came in fifth.

In August 2012 she finished fourth at the Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon in a team with Markus Schairer and Tobias Jenny .

Nicola Thost has been back in the World Cup as a snowboard freerider since 2015 . She lives in Munich . In February 2016 she took part in the VOX show " Ewige Helden ".

Others

In March 2002, a photo series with Nicola Thost was published in the German edition of Playboy magazine. Since 2009, she has been active in talent scouting and promoting young snowboarders with her non-profit project Sprungbrett and acted as an athlete role model for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck .

In 2010 she founded her own talent development program "Springboard - from Local to Hero". With various stops in Austria, she is looking for young talents between the ages of 5 and 15 to promote them.

Awards

• In 2007 she was awarded the “Most featured Girls Rider” award by Pleasure Snowboard Magazine .

Sporting successes

Awards:

• 1998 Award "Best Freestyle Rider, female" - European Snowboard Awards
• 1998 Silver bay leaf
• 1999 Award "Best Halfpipe Rider, female" - Transworld Riders Poll
• 1999 Award "Snowboarder of the Year" - European Snowboard Awards
• 2000 Award "Best Halfpipe Rider, female" - USA Transworld Riders Poll
• 2000 Award "Best female snowboarder" - Nea Awards

Web links

Commons : Nicola Thost  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nicola Thost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Nicola Thost website at nicolathost.com
• Nicola Thost in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Injury bad luck for Nicola Thost on faz.net
• Interview with Nicola Thost: The Halfpipe Queen helps young talents on skiinfo.de
• Athlete: THOST Nicola on data.fis-ski.com
• Nicola Thost on spolix.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eternal heroes: Nicola Thost writes sports history (January 8, 2016)