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Thorsten Schmitt (born 20 September 1975 in
Thorsten Schmitt (born 20 September 1975 in Villingen-Schwenningen
Villingen-Schwenningen (; Low Alemannic: ''Villinge-Schwenninge'') is a city in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in southern Baden-Württemberg, in south-western Germany. It had 89,743 inhabitants as of September 2024.
History
In the Middle Ages, ...
, Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...
) is a German nordic combined
Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics in ...
skier who has been competing since 1998. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 took place February 18 – March 1, 2003 in Val di Fiemme, Italy for a second time (1991). The ski jumping team normal hill held in 2001 was not held at this championships while the women's 30 km re ...
in Val di Fiemme
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Schmitt competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events ...
in Nagano, finishing sixth in the 4 x 5 km team event.
Schmitt's lone individual victory occurred in 1998 in a 15 km individual event in Germany
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.
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* * * 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Villingen-Schwenningen Skiers from Freiburg (region) Nordic combined skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics German male Nordic combined skiers FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined 20th-century German sportsmen {{nordic-skiing-bio-stub