What is Lothar Thoms?
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S0826-0022, Lothar Thoms.jpg|thumb|Lothar Thoms in 1959]] '''Lothar Thoms''' (18 May 1956 – 5 November 2017) was an [[East German]] [[track cyclist]]. He represented his native country at the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in [[Moscow, Russia]]. He won the gold medal in the [[Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 1 km time trial|men's 1,000m time trial]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/lothar-thoms-1.html|title=Archived copy|access-date=2018-04-01|archive-date=2020-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418023003/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/lothar-thoms-1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1981 he was elected [[German Sportspersonality of the year|East German Sportspersonality of the year]]. Thoms was born in [[Guben]], [[Brandenburg]]. He died in [[Berlin]] at the age of 61.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bdr-medienservice.de/nachrichten/trauer-um-lothar-thomas |title=Trauer um Lothar Thoms |date=2017-11-07 |website=BDR Medienservice |language=de |access-date=2017-11-08}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat}} * {{IOC profile|lothar-thoms}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Thoms, Lothar}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:German cyclists]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for East Germany]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Brandenburg]] {{sports-bio-stub}}