About Debi Thomas
Debra Janine Thomas is an American figure skater and physician. She is the 1986 World champion, the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, and a two-time U.S. national champion. Her rivalry with East Germany's Katarina Witt at the 1988 Calgary Olympics was known as the Battle of the Carmens. Thomas placed fifth in the World Championships in 1985 and won gold in 1986. Thomas had also won the U.S. national title besides the World Championship that year; these achievements earned Thomas the ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year award that year. The eighteen-year-old won the short program and landed four triple jumps to place second in the long program, enough to win the overall competition.
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