Jacob Tullin Thams

Jacob Tullin Thams

Jacob Tullin Thams in 1928
Personal information
Nationality	Norway
Born	7 April 1898 (1898-04-07) Krisitiania, Sweden-Norway
Died	27 July 1954 (1954-07-28) (aged 56) Oslo, Norway
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Sport	Ski jumping, Sailing
Club	Idrettsforeningen Ready
Medal record Men's ski jumping Representing Norway Winter Olympic Games 1924 Chamonix Individual LH World Championships 1926 Lahti Individual large hill Men's sailing Summer Olympic Games 1936 Berlin 8-metre

Jacob Tullin "Tulla" Thams (7 April 1898 – 27 July 1954) was a Norwegian Olympian, who competed in ski jumping and sailing.

Career

He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924, and became the third person (after Gillis Grafström who competed in one sport only and boxer/bobsleigh crew member Eddie Eagan) to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936 as a member of the silver medal-winning Norwegian 8-metre sailing team.

Thams also won the individual large hill at the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1926 (the first true ski jumper to do so), and would develop the Kongsberger technique in ski jumping (along with fellow Norwegian Sigmund Ruud) that would be the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s. Thams is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.

Ski jumping world records

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
18 February 1928	Olympiaschanze	St. Moritz, Switzerland	73	240

  Not recognized! Crash at world record distance.

External links

• Jacob Tullin Thams at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2007) (in Norwegian)
• ISAF 1936 Summer Olympic Results at the Wayback Machine (archived March 24, 2006)
• Jacob Tullin Thams at Olympics.com
• Jacob Tullin Thams at Olympedia (archive)