Background
He is the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Lubomir and Marianne Hintnaus, who escaped from their home country to West Germany, but were unable to emigrate directly to the United States.
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Tomas Hintnaus
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Hintnaus attended the now closed Aviation High School in Redondo Beach, California.
Career
Although he is an American citizen, he represented his native country, Brazil, in the Olympic Games following the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. As an intermediate stop, they moved first to Brazil, where Tom was born. They moved to the United States in 1960 when he was two.
As an American citizen he qualified first in the 1980 United States Olympic Trials.
This is a former South American record. lieutenant was broken by countryfellow Fábio Gomes da Silva in 2007.
Hintnaus is also known as the first model in the underwear advertising campaign of designer Calvin Klein. The photograph by Bruce Weber of Hintnaus in white briefs, leaning against a thickly white-washed chimney on Santorini Island in Greece, became the iconic image of "male as sex object" in the 1980s.
American Photographer magazine named the photo as one of “10 Pictures That Changed America.”
Hintnaus appeared in the Hawaii Five-0 Season 4 episode, "Ha"uoli Louisiana Ho"omaika"i" as assassin Dante Barkov.
Achievements
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He won the CIF California State Meet in 1976. He won pole vault at the Olympic Boycott Games, but following the 1980 United States Olympic boycott Hintnaus represented his native country, Brazil, instead, beginning in 1983. Foreign Brazil, he finished fifth at the 1983 World Championships, won the bronze medal at the 1983 Pan American Games, and no-heighted in the final at the 1984 Olympic Games. His personal best was 5.76 metres, achieved in August 1985 in Zürich.
