Jacob Tullin Thams

Medal record

Thams in 1928
Men's ski jumping
Competitor for  Norway
Olympic Games
Gold 1924 Chamonix Individual large hill
Men's sailing
Silver 1936 Berlin 8-metre
Men's ski jumping
World Championships
Gold 1926 Lahti Individual large hill

Jacob Tullin "Tulla" Thams (April 7, 1898 – July 27, 1954) was a Norwegian Olympian. 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Kongsberger technique in ski jumping (along with fellow Norwegian Sigmund Ruud) that would be the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s.

References

1924: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) * 1928: Alf Andersen (NOR) * 1932: Birger Ruud (NOR) * 1936: Birger Ruud (NOR) * 1948: Petter Hugsted (NOR) * 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR) * 1956: Antti Hyvärinen (FIN) * 1960: Helmut Recknagel (EUA) * 1964: Toralf Engan (NOR) * 1968: Vladimir Belussov (URS) * 1972: Wojciech Fortuna (POL) * 1976: Karl Schnabl (AUT) * 1980: Jouko Törmänen (FIN) * 1984: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1988: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1992: Toni Nieminen (FIN) * 1994: Jens Weißflog (GER) * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) * 2002: Simon Ammann (SUI) * 2006: Thomas Morgenstern (AUT) * 2010: Simon Ammann (SUI)

1925: Willen Dick (TCH) • 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) • 1927: Tore Edman (SWE) • 1929: Sigmund Ruud (NOR) • 1930: Gunnar Andersen (NOR) • 1931: Birger Ruud (NOR) • 1933: Marcel Reymond (SUI) • 1934: Kristian Johansson (NOR) • 1935: Birger Ruud (NOR) • 1937: Birger Ruud (NOR) • 1938: Asbjørn Ruud (NOR) • 1939: Josef Bradl (GER)
World War II
1950: Hans Bjørnstad (NOR) • 1954: Matti Pietikäinen (FIN) • 1958: Juhani Kärkinen (FIN) • 1962: Helmut Recknagel (GDR) • 1966: Bjørn Wirkola (NOR) • 1970: Gariy Napalkov (URS) • 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach (GDR) • 1978: Tapio Räisänen (FIN) • 1982: Matti Nykänen (FIN) • 1985: Per Bergerud (NOR) • 1987: Andreas Felder (AUT) • 1989: Jari Puikkonen (FIN) • 1991: Franci Petek (YUG) • 1993: Espen Bredesen (NOR) • 1995: Tommy Ingebrigtsen (NOR) • 1997: Masahiko Harada (JPN) • 1999: Martin Schmitt (GER) • 2001: Martin Schmitt (GER) • 2003: Adam Małysz (POL) • 2005: Janne Ahonen (FIN) • 2007: Simon Ammann (SUI) • 2009: Andreas Küttel (SUI) • 2011: Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT)