Jacob Tullin Thams

Jacob Tullin Thams, nicknamed Tulla, was a Norwegian Olympian who competed in ski jumping and sailing, born in Oslo on 7 April 1898 and died there on 27 July 1954. He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924, and in 1936 he won a silver medal as a member of the Norwegian 8-metre sailing team, which made him the third person to win medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympics, after Gillis Grafström and Eddie Eagan. He won the individual large hill at the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1926 as the first true ski jumper to do so, and with Sigmund Ruud developed the Kongsberger technique, which stayed the standard in ski jumping until the Daescher technique replaced it in the 1950s.