Sandra Näslund
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![]() Sandra Näslund during February 2016 World Cup competitions in Idre Fjäll, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1996-07-06) 6 July 1996 (age 28) Kramfors, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Kramfors Alpina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 12 – (2012–present) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starts | 103 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 1 – (2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 4 – Ski cross (2018, 2020, 2022, 2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 28 February 2023. |
Sandra Catrin Näslund (born 6 July 1996) is a Swedish freestyle skier, specializing in ski cross and alpine skiing.[1][2] She is the 2022 ski cross Olympic champion, the 2017, 2021 and 2023 ski cross World Champion, winner of the 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023 ski cross World Cups, and the overall winner of the 2018 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup.
Career
Näslund made her Freestyle World Cup debut in March 2012. As of the 2021–22 season, she has won the Ski cross World Cup three times and has won a total of 28 individual World Cup races.[1]
Näslund competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Sweden. She finished 10th in the seeding run for the ski cross event. In the first round, she won in her heat, advancing. In the quarterfinals, she finished second, again advancing. She failed to finish her semi-final, ending up in the B final, which she won, to secure 5th place.[3][4]
She became Sweden's first world champion in ski cross when she won the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada.[5]
During the 2017–2018 season, she won both the skicross and the freestyle skiing world cups for women.[6]
Näslund injured her right knee during practice, in November 2020, before the World Cup season premiere in Arosa. She spent the following eleven weeks rehabilitating her injury, before making her season debut at the World Championships in Idre.[7] Näslund placed second in the qualification run and three days later she won each of the elimination heats, including the big final, to claim her second World Championships gold medal.
Näslund won a gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics, where she won the qualification run and each of the following elimination heats, including the big final, becoming the first Swedish skier to win the Ski cross event. Näslund also dominated the Ski cross World Cup over the 2021–22 season, winning eleven out of twelve races.
Personal life
Näslund is openly lesbian.[8]
World Cup results
Season titles
5 titles (1 overall, 4 ski cross)
Season | |
Discipline | |
2017–18 | Overall |
Ski cross | |
2019–20 | Ski cross |
2021–22 | Ski cross |
2022–23 | Ski cross |
Season standings
Season | ||||
Age | Overall | Ski cross | Cross Alps Tour | |
2011–12 | 15 | 169 | 44 | N/A |
2012–13 | 16 | 122 | 26 | N/A |
2013–14 | 17 | 22 | 5 | N/A |
2014–15 | 18 | 89 | 21 | N/A |
2015–16 | 19 | 14 | 4 | N/A |
2016–17 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
2017–18 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2018–19 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
2019–20 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2020–21 | 24 | N/A | 8 | injured: did not compete |
2021–22 | 25 | N/A | 1 | 1 |
2022–23 | 26 | N/A | 1 | 1 |
Ski cross individual victories
- 37 wins
- 63 podiums
Season | ||
Date | Location | |
2016–2017 2 victories | 14 January 2017 | ![]() |
11 February 2017 | ![]() | |
2017–2018 7 victories | 7 December 2017 | ![]() |
12 December 2017 | ![]() | |
22 December 2017 | ![]() | |
13 January 2018 | ![]() | |
14 January 2018 | ![]() | |
20 January 2018 | ![]() | |
4 March 2018 | ![]() | |
2018–2019 3 victories | 22 December 2018 | ![]() |
16 February 2019 | ![]() | |
17 February 2019 | ![]() | |
2019–2020 3 victories | 6 December 2019 | ![]() |
18 January 2020 | ![]() | |
26 January 2020 | ![]() | |
2020–2021 2 victories | 19 February 2021 | ![]() |
21 March 2021 | ![]() | |
2021–2022 11 victories | 27 November 2021 | ![]() |
11 December 2021 | ![]() | |
12 December 2021 | ![]() | |
19 December 2021 | ![]() | |
20 December 2021 | ![]() | |
14 January 2022 | ![]() | |
15 January 2022 | ![]() | |
22 January 2022 | ![]() | |
23 January 2022 | ![]() | |
13 March 2022 | ![]() | |
19 March 2022 | ![]() | |
2022–2023 9 victories | 8 December 2022 | ![]() |
9 December 2022 | ![]() | |
12 December 2022 | ![]() | |
21 December 2022 | ![]() | |
22 December 2022 | ![]() | |
21 January 2023 | ![]() | |
22 January 2023 | ![]() | |
16 February 2023 | ![]() | |
17 February 2023 | ![]() |
Ski cross mixed team victories
- 1 win
- 2 podiums
Season | |||
Date | Location | Teammate | |
2021–2022 | 15 December 2021 | ![]() | David Mobärg |
World Championship results
Year | |||
Age | Ski cross | Team Ski cross | |
2013 | 16 | 14 | |
2015 | 18 | injured: did not compete | |
2017 | 20 | 1 | |
2019 | 22 | 9 | |
2021 | 24 | 1 | |
2023 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
Olympic results
Year | ||
Age | Ski cross | |
2014 | 17 | 5 |
2018 | 21 | 4 |
2022 | 25 | 1 |
References
- ^ a b FIS Profile – Freestyle
- ^ FIS Profile – Alpine
- ^ "Sports Reference Profile". Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ "Sochi2014.com profile". 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014.
- ^ Erik Nilson (18 March 2017). "Dubbla svenska VM-guld i skicross". Dagens nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ Camilla Westin (17 March 2018). "Sandra Näslund vinner världscupen i skicross och freestylecupen" (in Swedish). Örnsköldsviks allehanda. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Samuel Abrahamsson, Björn Becksmo (12 February 2021). "Sandra Näslund: "Är här för att slåss om medaljerna"" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- ^ "At least 36 out LGBTQ athletes in Beijing Winter Olympics, a record". Outsports. 26 January 2022.
External links
Media related to Sandra Näslund at Wikimedia Commons
- Sandra Näslund at FIS (alpine)
- Sandra Näslund at FIS (freestyle)
- Sandra Näslund at Olympics.com
- Sandra Näslund at Olympedia
- Sandra Näslund at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
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