Sandra Näslund

Sandra Catrin Näslund (born 6 July 1996) is a Swedish freestyle skier, specializing in ski cross and alpine skiing. She is the 2022 ski cross Olympic champion, the 2017, 2021 and 2023 ski cross World Champion, winner of the 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026 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 2025–26 season, she has won the Ski cross World Cup five times and has won a total of 50 individual World Cup races.

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.

During the 2017–2018 season, she won both the skicross and the freestyle skiing world cups for women.

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. 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.

She won the bronze medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Personal life Näslund is openly lesbian.

World Cup results Season titles 6 titles (1 overall, 5 ski cross) SeasonDiscipline 2017–18 Overall Ski cross 2019–20 Ski cross 2021–22 Ski cross 2022–23 Ski cross 2025–26 Ski cross

Season standings SeasonAgeOverallSki crossCrossAlps 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: didnot compete 2021–22 25 N/A 1 1 2022–23 26 N/A 1 1 2023–24 27 N/A 11 N/A 2024–25 28 N/A 30 N/A 2025–26 29 N/A 1 N/A

Ski cross individual victories 50 wins 78 podiums

Ski cross mixed team victories 1 win 2 podiums SeasonDateLocationTeammate 2021–202215 December 2021 Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland David Mobärg

World Championship results YearAgeSki crossTeam Ski cross 2013 16 14 2015 18 injured: didnot compete 2017 20 1 2019 22 9 2021 24 1 2023 26 1 1 2025 28 injured: didnot compete injured: didnot compete

Olympic results YearAgeSki cross 2014 17 5 2018 21 4 2022 25 1 2026 29 3