Thomas Wassberg
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1980 Lake Placid | 15 km | |
| Gold | 1984 Sarajevo | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1984 Sarajevo | 4 x 10 km | |
| Gold | 1988 Calgary | 4 x 10 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1982 Oslo | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1987 Oberstdorf | 30 km | |
| Gold | 1987 Oberstdorf | 4 x 10 km | |
| Silver | 1985 Seefeld | 15 km | |
| Silver | 1987 Oberstdorf | 15 km | |
| Silver | 1987 Oberstdorf | 50 km | |
| Bronze | 1985 Seefeld | 4 x 10 km | |
Thomas Wassberg (born March 27, 1956) was a Swedish cross country skier.
He won the World Cup in 1977. In 1980 he received Bragdmedaljen, an award given to the best Swedish sportsman/sportswomen each year. He did however refuse to accept the award in protest to an earlier decision by the award committee.
Wassberg won four gold Medals at the Winter Olympics in 15 km (1980), 50 km (1984), and the 4 x 10 km relay (1984, 1988). At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he earned three golds (50 km: 1982, 30 km: 1987, and 4 x 10 km: 1987), three silvers (15 km: 1985, 1987; 50 km (1987), and one bronze (4 x 10 km: 1985). Additionally, Wassberg won the 50 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival three times (1980, 1982, and 1987) and the 15 km twice (1979, 1985).
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Wassberg edged out Finland's Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the 15 km, the closest cross country skiing race in Olympic history. This incident led the FIS to change their timing to the nearest one-tenth of a second. At the 1984 Winter Olympics, Wassberg beat out fellow Swede Gunde Svan by 4.9 seconds in the 50km, the closest margin of victory in that event until Giorgio Di Centa (Italy) edged out Eugeni Dementiev (Russia) by 0.8 seconds at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Wassberg was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1980.
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| Olympic champions in men's 15 km cross country |
| As 18km - 1924: Thorleif Haug | 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten | 1932: Sven Utterström | 1936: Erik August Larsson | 1948: Martin Lundström | 1952: Hallgeir Brenden |
| As 15km - 1956: Hallgeir Brenden | 1960: Haakon Brusveen | 1964: Eero Mäntyranta | 1968: Harald Grønningen | 1972: Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1976: Nikolay Bazhukov | 1980: Thomas Wassberg | 1984: Gunde Svan | 1988: Mikhail Devyatyarov | 2002: Andrus Veerpalu | 2006: Andrus Veerpalu |
| Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross country |
| 1924: Thorleif Haug | 1928: Per Erik Hedlund | 1932: Veli Saarinen | 1936: Elis Wiklund | 1948: Nils Karlsson | 1952: Veikko Hakulinen | 1956: Sixten Jernberg | 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1964: Sixten Jernberg | 1968: Ole Ellefsæter | 1972: Pål Tyldum | 1976: Ivar Formo | 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1984: Thomas Wassberg | 1988: Gunde Svan | 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1994: Vladimir Smirnov | 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie | 2002: Mikhail Ivanov | 2006: Giorgio Di Centa |
| World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing |
| 1926: Matti Raivio | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1962: Eero Mäntyranta | 1966: Eero Mäntyranta | 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1974: Thomas Magnusson | 1978: Sergey Savelyev | 1982: Thomas Eriksson | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Thomas Wassberg | 1989: Vladimir Smirnov | 1991: Gunde Svan | 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1995: Vladimir Smirnov | 1997: Alexey Prokourorov | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Andrus Veerpalu | 2003: Thomas Alsgaard |
| World champions in men's 50 km cross country |
| 1925: Frantisek Donth | 1926: Matti Raivio | 1927: John Lindgren | 1929: Anselm Knuutila | 1930: Sven Utterström | 1931: Ole Stensen | 1933: Veli Saarinen | 1934: Elis Wiklund | 1935: Nils-Joel Englund | 1937: Pekka Niemi | 1938: Kalle Jalkanen | 1939: Lars Bergendahl | 1950: Gunnar Eriksson | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Sixten Jernberg | 1962: Sixten Jernberg | 1966: Gjermund Eggen | 1970: Kalevi Oikarainen | 1974: Gerhard Grimmer | 1978: Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1982: Thomas Wassberg | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Maurilio De Zolt | 1989: Gunde Svan | 1991: Torgny Mogren | 1993: Torgny Mogren | 1995: Silvio Fauner | 1997: Mika Myllylä | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Johann Mühlegg | 2003: Martin Koukal | 2005: Frode Estil |
| Preceded by: Ingemar Stenmark, Erik Håker, & Raisa Smetanina |
Holmenkollen medal 1980 |
Succeeded by: Johan Sætre |
Categories: 1956 births | Competitors at the 1980 Winter Olympics | Competitors at the 1984 Winter Olympics | Competitors at the 1988 Winter Olympics | Holmenkollen medalists | Holmenkollen winners | Living people | Swedish cross-country skiers | Olympic competitors for Sweden | Winter Olympics medalists | Multiple Olympic gold medalists
