Joshua Casey Thompson (born in Lawrence, Kansas on February 28, 1962^[1]) is a retired American biathlete and pilot. He was educated at Colorado Rocky Mountain School and Western State Colorado University, attending the latter on an athletic scholarship and leading them to a national collegiate cross-country title. He initially enjoyed success at junior level as a cross-country skier before switching to biathlon after first coming across the sport while competing at the junior national cross-country championships in 1980.^[2] His silver at the 20 km race of the Biathlon World Championships 1987 was the best place a US biathlete had achieved at that point.^[3][4] He never won an Olympic medal^[5] but finished sixteenth at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, which was a good showing for Americans at that time.^[6] As the sport was not popular in the US at that time he was said to be better known in Europe than in his homeland.^[7] He has since become a pilot in Gunnison, Colorado.^[8]

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