Sandra Näslund
Sandra Näslund during February 2016 World Cup competitions in Idre Fjäll, Sweden
Country	Sweden
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)
Indiv. starts	103
Indiv. podiums	63
Indiv. wins	37
Team starts	2
Team podiums	2
Team wins	1
Overall titles	1 – (2018)
Discipline titles	4 – Ski cross (2018, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Medal record Women's freestyle skiing Representing  Sweden Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Ski cross World Championships 2017 Sierra Nevada Ski cross 2021 Idre Ski cross 2023 Bakuriani Ski cross 2023 Bakuriani Mixed team ski cross Junior World Championships 2016 Val Thorens Ski cross 2017 Chiesa in Valmalenco Ski cross 2014 Chiesa in Valmalenco Ski cross
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.

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.

Näslund is openly lesbian.^[8]

5 titles (1 overall, 4 ski cross)

• 37 wins
• 63 podiums

Season
	Date	Location
2016–2017 2 victories	14 January 2017	Watles, Italy
	11 February 2017	Idre, Sweden
2017–2018 7 victories	7 December 2017	Val Thorens, France
	12 December 2017	Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland
	22 December 2017	Innichen, Italy
	13 January 2018	Idre, Sweden
	14 January 2018	Idre, Sweden
	20 January 2018	Nakiska, Alberta, Canada
	4 March 2018	Sunny Valley, Russia
2018–2019 3 victories	22 December 2018	Innichen, Italy
	16 February 2019	Feldberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
	17 February 2019	Feldberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
2019–2020 3 victories	6 December 2019	Val Thorens, France
	18 January 2020	Nakiska, Alberta, Canada
	26 January 2020	Idre, Sweden
2020–2021 2 victories	19 February 2021	Reiteralm, Austria
	21 March 2021	Veysonnaz, Switzerland
2021–2022 11 victories	27 November 2021	Secret Garden, China
	11 December 2021	Val Thorens, France
	12 December 2021	Val Thorens, France
	19 December 2021	Innichen, Italy
	20 December 2021	Innichen, Italy
	14 January 2022	Nakiska, Alberta, Canada
	15 January 2022	Nakiska, Alberta, Canada
	22 January 2022	Idre, Sweden
	23 January 2022	Idre, Sweden
	13 March 2022	Reiteralm, Austria
	19 March 2022	Veysonnaz, Switzerland
2022–2023 9 victories	8 December 2022	Val Thorens, France
	9 December 2022	Val Thorens, France
	12 December 2022	Arosa, Switzerland
	21 December 2022	Innichen, Italy
	22 December 2022	Innichen, Italy
	21 January 2023	Idre, Sweden
	22 January 2023	Idre, Sweden
	16 February 2023	Reiteralm, Austria
	17 February 2023	Reiteralm, Austria

• 1 win
• 2 podiums

Season
	Date	Location	Teammate
2021–2022	15 December 2021	Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland	David Mobärg

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 the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
• Sandra Näslund at Olympedia