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Thorsten Schmitt (born September 20, 1975 in Villingen-Schwenningen,
Thorsten Schmitt (born September 20, 1975 in Villingen-Schwenningen, Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a 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 inhabitants across a ...
) 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 ever 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympic ...
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 in Val di Fiemme 300px, Location of the Fiemme Valley in Trentino.
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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 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...
in Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
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, 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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* * * 1975 births Living people People from Villingen-Schwenningen Sportspeople 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 {{nordic-skiing-bio-stub