Thomas Sykora (born 18 May 1968) is a former alpine skier from Austria.

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Thomas Sykora

Personal information
Born	(1968-05-18) 18 May 1968 (age 55) Tulln, Austria
Occupation	Alpine skier
Skiing career
Disciplines	Slalom
World Cup debut	30 November 1991
Olympics
Teams	1
Medals	1
World Championships
Teams	3
World Cup
Wins	9
Podiums	21
Discipline titles	2
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Representing  Austria Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Slalom

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Thomas comes from a sporting family: his father Ernst Sykora was a ski instructor, and his aunts Liese Prokop and Maria Sykora were both successful athletes. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal at the latter.^[1]

Sykora won the 1996/97 and 1997/98 Slalom World Cups. Before winning these 2 World Cups, he finished second of the competition in 1994 in Lech. After finishing first in the first round, he eventually was beaten by Alberto Tomba by 2 hundredths of a second after the second round. In total, Thomas won nine World Cup races. At the Olympic Games 1998 in Nagano, he won the bronze medal in slalom. In 1996 and 1999 he also became Austrian slalom champion.

After numerous knee injuries, Thomas Sykora was forced to quit his career and became an ORF commentator. He started commenting on women's races in 2000. Later, he served as commentator in important men's slaloms (Kitzbühel, Schladming). On most of the races he comments, Thomas wears a helmet with a camera to show the spectators the different routes of the slalom, and their difficulties.

After the end of his active career as an athlete, he decided to study mental coaching in Bregenz; he then graduated with an MBA.