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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Kongsberger technique in ski jumping (along with fellow Norwegian Sigmund Ruud) that would be the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s. Thams is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.
Jacob (later given the name Israel) is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites. According to the Book of Genesis, Jacob (/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב Standard Yaʿakov) was the third Hebrew progenitor with whom God made a covenant. He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.
Jacob's twelve sons, named in Genesis, were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. His only daughter mentioned in Genesis is Dinah. The twelve sons became the progenitors of the "Tribes of Israel".
As a result of a severe drought in Canaan, Jacob and his sons moved to Egypt at the time when his son Joseph was viceroy. After 17 years in Egypt, Jacob died and Joseph carried Jacob's remains to the land of Canaan, and gave him a stately burial in the same Cave of Machpelah as were buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, and Jacob's first wife, Leah.
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. Unlike the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics feature sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, was held in Chamonix, France. The original five sports (broken into nine disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol,cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating). The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and was again held every four years. Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, but in accordance with a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer and Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 was in 1994.
Simon Ammann (born 25 June 1981) is a Swiss ski jumper and double Olympic Champion at both the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Ammann made his debut as a 16-year-old unknown during the 1997–1998 Ski jumping World Cup season. Ammann qualified for the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, where he finished 35th.
Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, he crashed and suffered injuries. Despite this, he won the gold medal in both the Individual Normal Hill and Individual Long Hill events, only the second person to accomplish this feat. (The first was Matti Nykänen in 1988). Following the games, Ammann became a star in Switzerland and also made appearances on American talk shows, such as the Late Show with David Letterman (on 20 February 2002).
Ammann also won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 2002 and 2007. This earned him the Holmenkollen medal in 2007 (shared with Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, King Harald V, and Queen Sonja of Norway).
The men's ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics took place at the 70-meter (230 ft) Olympiaschanze in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on 18 February. Thirty-eight competitors from thirteen nations competed, with the event being won by Norway's Alf Andersen ahead of countryman Sigmund Ruud and Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Burkert. Norway sent a strong contingent with four jumpers able to win the event, including reigning Olympic and world champion Jacob Tullin Thams. Andersen had won all eight Norwegian qualification events. World record holder Nels Nelsen from Canada was not permitted to participate due to financial problems. Japan participated in an international ski jumping competition for the first time, also becoming the first Asian country to do so. After the first jump, three Norwegians were ...
Did you know that 4 athletes have managed to win medals in both Winter and Summer Olympic Games!? Here are some interesting facts about Winter Olympics that you probably didn't know! Subscribe to be amongst the first to see our future facts: http://bitly.com/factxtract Spoilers (Content of the video)! 5. Sochi is the warmest city to host Winter Olympics! Sochi is a subtropical resort town with palm trees and beaches! Its average temperature in February is 8.3 °C (42.8 °F). This makes it the warmest city to have ever hosted Winter Olympic Games! 4. Only 4 Athletes Have Won Medals in Both Winter and Summer Olympic Games Eddie Eagan (USA) in Boxing & Bobsleigh Jacob Tullin Thams (Norway) in Sailing & Ski jumping Christa Luding (East Germany) in Cycling & Speed Skating Clara Hughes (...
Cześć! Siema! Witam was bardzo serdecznie na kanale Ski Jumpin TV! W dzisiejszym odcinku zajmiemy się mistrzami olimpijskimi. Niektórych materiałów nie posiadam. Oto lista mistrzów olimpijskich: 1924, Chamonix (FRA): Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) 1928, Sankt Moritz (SUI): Alf Andersen (NOR) 1932, Lake Placid (USA): Birger Ruud (NOR) 1936, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER): Birger Ruud (NOR) 1948, Sankt Moritz (SUI): Petter Hugsted (NOR) 1952, Oslo (NOR): Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR) 1956, Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA): Antti Hyvaerinen (FIN) 1960, Sqaw Valley (USA): Helmut Recknagel (DDR) 1964, Seefeld (AUT): Veikko Kankkonen (FIN) 1964, Innsbruck (AUT): Toralf Engan (NOR) 1968, Saint-Nizier (FRA): Jiri Raska (TCH) 1968, Saint-Nizier (FRA): Władimir Biełousow (USR) 1972, Sapporo (JPN): Yukio Kasaya (JPN) 1972,...
The men's ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics took place at the 70-meter (230 ft) Olympiaschanze in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on 18 February. Thirty-eight competitors from thirteen nations competed, with the event being won by Norway's Alf Andersen ahead of countryman Sigmund Ruud and Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Burkert. Norway sent a strong contingent with four jumpers able to win the event, including reigning Olympic and world champion Jacob Tullin Thams. Andersen had won all eight Norwegian qualification events. World record holder Nels Nelsen from Canada was not permitted to participate due to financial problems. Japan participated in an international ski jumping competition for the first time, also becoming the first Asian country to do so. After the first jump, three Norwegians were ...
Did you know that 4 athletes have managed to win medals in both Winter and Summer Olympic Games!? Here are some interesting facts about Winter Olympics that you probably didn't know! Subscribe to be amongst the first to see our future facts: http://bitly.com/factxtract Spoilers (Content of the video)! 5. Sochi is the warmest city to host Winter Olympics! Sochi is a subtropical resort town with palm trees and beaches! Its average temperature in February is 8.3 °C (42.8 °F). This makes it the warmest city to have ever hosted Winter Olympic Games! 4. Only 4 Athletes Have Won Medals in Both Winter and Summer Olympic Games Eddie Eagan (USA) in Boxing & Bobsleigh Jacob Tullin Thams (Norway) in Sailing & Ski jumping Christa Luding (East Germany) in Cycling & Speed Skating Clara Hughes (...
Cześć! Siema! Witam was bardzo serdecznie na kanale Ski Jumpin TV! W dzisiejszym odcinku zajmiemy się mistrzami olimpijskimi. Niektórych materiałów nie posiadam. Oto lista mistrzów olimpijskich: 1924, Chamonix (FRA): Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) 1928, Sankt Moritz (SUI): Alf Andersen (NOR) 1932, Lake Placid (USA): Birger Ruud (NOR) 1936, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER): Birger Ruud (NOR) 1948, Sankt Moritz (SUI): Petter Hugsted (NOR) 1952, Oslo (NOR): Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR) 1956, Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA): Antti Hyvaerinen (FIN) 1960, Sqaw Valley (USA): Helmut Recknagel (DDR) 1964, Seefeld (AUT): Veikko Kankkonen (FIN) 1964, Innsbruck (AUT): Toralf Engan (NOR) 1968, Saint-Nizier (FRA): Jiri Raska (TCH) 1968, Saint-Nizier (FRA): Władimir Biełousow (USR) 1972, Sapporo (JPN): Yukio Kasaya (JPN) 1972,...