# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-litz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:21:14.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-litz"
name: "Thomas Litz"
slug: "thomas-litz"
description: "Thomas Litz is a retired American figure skater. He won the gold medal at the 1963 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed sixth at the 1964 Winter Olympics. Litz is credited as being the first skater to land the triple toe loop jump, a feat he accomplished at the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships."
tagline: "Figure skater"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Litz_1962.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.59
  momentum:             1.375
  historical:           5.003276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Litz"
    title: "Thomas Litz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Litz"
    title: "Thomas Litz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Litz"
    title: "Thomas Litz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Litz"
    title: "Thomas Litz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%A8%B8%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A6%AC%EC%B8%A0"
    title: "토머스 리츠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2425844"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump