Georg Thoma

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Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Olympic Games
Gold 1960 Squaw Valley Individual
Bronze 1964 Innbruck Individual
World Championships
Gold 1966 Oslo Individual

Georg Thoma (born August 20, 1937 in Hinterzarten) is a former German nordic combined skier. He won two Winter Olympic medals in the nordic combined with gold in 1960 and bronze in 1964.

Thoma also won the gold in the individual event at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.

Thoma's strength in the Nordic combined was jumping. He was three times German champion in ski jumping (1960, 1961, and 1963). Additionally, he won the nordic combined at the Holmenkollen ski festival from 1963 to 1966. For his Nordic combined successes, Thoma was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1964 (Shared with Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, and Halvor Næs.)

Georg Thoma is the uncle of the jumper Dieter Thoma, winner of the Four Hills Tournament and a World champion in ski flying.

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Preceded by
Alevtina Kolchina, Pavel Kolchin, Astrid Sandvik, & Torbjørn Yggeseth
Holmenkollen medal with Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, & Halvor Næs
1964
Succeeded by
Arto Tianen, Bengt Eriksson, & Arne Larsen