Jacob Tullin Thams

Jacob Tullin Thams

Thams in 1928
Personal information
Born	April 7, 1898 (1898-04-07)
Died	July 27, 1954 (1954-07-28) (aged 56)
Medal record Representing  Norway Men's ski jumping Winter Olympic Games 1924 Chamonix Individual large hill World Championships 1926 Lahti Individual large hill Men's sailing Summer Olympic Games 1936 Berlin 8-metre

Jacob Tullin "Tulla" Thams (April 7, 1898 – July 27, 1954) was a Norwegian Olympian.

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Kongsberger technique in ski jumping (along with fellow Norwegian Sigmund Ruud) that would be the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s.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.^[1]

References

• Jacob Tullin Thams at the International Ski Federation
• Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
• ISAF 1936 Summer Olympic Results