Thorsten Schmitt

This article is about the skier Thorsten Schmitt. For other people see Thorsten Schmidt .

Thorsten Schmitt
Thorsten Schmitt during the Oslo World Cup 2006
nation	Germany
birthday	20th September 1975
place of birth	Villingen-Schwenningen ,  Germany
size	179 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
society	SC Furtwangen
Trainer	Albert Wursthorn Ralf Rombach
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 × 5 km team (NH)  German championships bronze 1998 Ruhpolding singles
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 18, 1998
Overall World Cup	18th ( 2005/06 )
Sprint World Cup	20th ( 2002/03 , 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  team 0 3 0

Thorsten Schmitt (born September 20, 1975 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a former German Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Schmitt, who started for SC Furtwangen , started with Nordic combined in 1988 . When he was 14, he went to the Furtwangen boarding school / Otto Hahn Gymnasium Furtwangen . Since 1990 he has also been practicing the sport on a national level and since 1997 on an international level. Until 1995 he was part of Frank Erlbeck's C-Combined team, then moved up to Hermann Weinbuch's prospective Olympic team for Nagano in 1998 . Shortly before the games on January 18, 1998, Schmitt made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Chaux-Neuve and achieved his first World Cup points with 12th place. At the Olympic Games he started in the team competition and finished in sixth place together with Matthias Looß , Ronny Ackermann and Jens Deimel . Shortly after the Olympics, Schmitt was diagnosed with testicular cancer. After an operation and several chemotherapies, however, Schmitt was able to start again in the next season. From January 2000 he was back in the World Cup squad and reached the points again towards the end of the month in Liberec . In February he took part in the team competition in the B World Cup in Baiersbronn and was second on the podium for the first time with the team.

At the Summer Grand Prix in August 2000, Schmitt surprised with fifth place in Klingenthal , but could not build on that in Stams and Berchtesgaden , which is why he did not get past 27th place overall. After he came into the World Cup squad in January 2001 in the 2000/01 season and remained without great success, Schmitt first started in the B World Cup at the beginning of the 2001/02 season. He achieved his second podium with third place in the sprint race in Taivalkoski . At the end of December Schmitt switched back to the World Cup. In January he achieved his best individual World Cup result of his career with fifth place in Liberec. As a result, Schmitt was found in the points at almost every World Cup race. In the Sprint World Cup he was able to celebrate his best result so far in the 2002/03 season with rank 20 overall. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , he won the team silver medal together with Georg Hettich , Björn Kircheisen and Ronny Ackermann.

Almost a year later, in February 2004, he and the team finished second on the podium for the first time at an A World Cup at the Team World Cup in Oberstdorf . He repeated this success with the team on February 11, 2005 in Pragelato . In the overall individual World Cup, he finally achieved his best result in the 2005/06 season with 18th place overall. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin he was part of the German squad, but was the only combined skier not to be used.

On January 31, 2007, he announced the end of his career. The reason for the decision is the non-nomination for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan . Before that, he was able to win World Cup points again with 16th place in the sprint at the World Cup in Seefeld in Tirol and finally finished the 2006/07 season 31st in the overall standings.

successes

B-World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 8, 1998	Klingenthal	Gundersen normal hill

statistics

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place					3	3
3rd place
Top 10	3	1			4th	8th
Scoring	33	41	10		4th	88
Starts	40	47	12		4th	103
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Private

Thorsten Schmitt is the older brother of the famous ski jumper Martin Schmitt . He lives near Freiburg im Breisgau . With his friend Christoph Graf, he ran the internet company Smaitec .

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Schmitt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thorsten Schmitt in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Thorsten Schmitt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )