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Thomas Wassberg
Thomas Wassberg in December 2013
CountryThomas Wassberg Sweden
Full nameLars Thomas Wassberg
Born (1956-03-27) 27 March 1956 (age 68)
Årjäng, Sweden
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Ski clubÅsarna IK
World Cup career
Seasons7 – (1982–1988)
Starts44
Podiums18
Wins6
Overall titles0 – (2nd in 1982, 1984, 1987)
Medal record
Men's cross-country skiing
Representing Thomas Wassberg Sweden
International nordic ski competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 4 0 0
World Championships 3 3 1
Total 7 3 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1980 Lake Placid 15 km
Gold medal – first place 1984 Sarajevo 50 km
Gold medal – first place 1984 Sarajevo 4 × 10 km relay
Gold medal – first place 1988 Calgary 4 × 10 km relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1982 Oslo 50 km
Gold medal – first place 1987 Oberstdorf 30 km classical
Gold medal – first place 1987 Oberstdorf 4 × 10 km relay
Silver medal – second place 1985 Seefeld 15 km
Silver medal – second place 1987 Oberstdorf 15 km classical
Silver medal – second place 1987 Oberstdorf 50 km freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1985 Seefeld 4 × 10 km relay

Lars Thomas Wassberg (born 27 March 1956) is a Swedish former cross-country skier. A fast skating style – push for every leg – is still called "Wassberg" after him in several countries. Wassberg's skiing idols when growing up were Sixten Jernberg and Oddvar Brå. He has described his mental strength and physical fitness as his greatest abilities as a skier, with his main weakness being a lack of sprinting ability.[1]

Wassberg won four Olympic gold medals: in 15 km (1980), 50 km (1984), and the 4 × 10 km relay (1984, 1988), and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Sweden in 1988.[2] At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he earned three golds (50 km: 1982, 30 km: 1987, and 4 × 10 km relay: 1987), three silvers (15 km: 1985, 1987; 50 km (1987), and one bronze (4 × 10 km relay: 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).[3]

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 ski race in Olympic history. Wassberg subsequently suggested to Mieto that the gold medal should be split between them "as one one-hundredth of a second is nothing in a 15-kilometer race". This incident led the International Ski Federation (FIS) to change their timing to the nearest one-tenth of a second. It also resulted in an apocryphal urban legend that Wassberg and Mieto's medals were cut in half and re-welded into half-gold, half-silver medals.[4] At the 1984 Winter Olympics, Wassberg beat out fellow Swede Gunde Svan by 4.9 seconds in the 50 km, the closest margin of victory ever in that event until Giorgio Di Centa edged out Yevgeny Dementyev by 0.8 seconds at the 2006 Winter Olympics though the 2006 event was a mass start event while the 1984 event was an interval start event.

He won the World Cup in 1977, and in 1980 was awarded the Holmenkollen medal. For some reason his teammate Sven-Åke Lundbäck did not receive the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1978. In protest to this decision Wassberg refused to accept his Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1980.[3][5]

According to Bengt Erik Bengtsson, Chief of the Nordic Office of the FIS from 1984 to 2004, Wassberg was the first to suggest in 1984 the splitting of the sport of cross country skiing into classic and freestyle disciplines. This was subsequently implemented by FIS in 1986.[6]

After retiring from competitions Wassberg worked as a sports reporter for Swedish Radio and a cross-country skiing coach for his club Åsarna IK. In 2009 he appeared on Swedish television in the show contests Mästarnas mästare, and in 2016 participated in Let's Dance 2016 which was broadcast on TV4.[7] In the 2010s he oversaw the preparation of ski tracks for Åsarna IK, organized bird hunting events for tourists and worked as a forester.[3]

  1. ^ "Cross Country Legend Thomas Wassberg (SWE) in Interview". Fischer Sports. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. ^ Sweden. sports-reference.com
  3. ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Thomas Wassberg". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  4. ^ Perman, Cindy (2013). New York Curiosities, 2nd: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 151. ISBN 9780762774968.
  5. ^ Thomas Wassberg. Swedish Olympic Committee
  6. ^ Bengt Erik Bengtsson (2010). "Cross country skating: how it started". Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Deltagare i Let's dance – tv4.se". tv4.se. Retrieved 1 April 2016.

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