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Thorsten Schmitt (born September 20, 1975 in
Villingen-Schwenningen,
Baden-Württemberg
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) is a German
nordic combined
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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
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Schmitt competed in the
1998 Winter Olympics
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in
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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
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