Sandra NAESLUND

BEING A TEACHER DURING COVID
She stepped in as a sports teacher at a school in Umea, when a teacher at her girlfriend's school became ill. Despite the fact that she was in school for four days a week, she made sure that there was football, fireball, and frisbee golf for the students. (gp.se)

INNICHEN COURSE SCARE
After her teammate, 2014 Olympic bronze medallist Anna Holmlund was seriously injured in training on a course in Innichen, Italy (December 2016) requiring brain surgery and placed in a medically induced coma, Naeslund (who was behind her and witnessed the crash), crashed herself two days later on the same course, suffering a mild concussion and a broken nose. (aftonbladet.se, 21 Dec 2016)

FAMILY
Close to all her grandparents since her mother passed away when she was two years of age. Grandma Britta Naslund unexpectedly stepped up and gave a speech during the victory celebration of her 2017 World title. "It was fun, I was not prepared for it at all. She was in a women's club, I think, and I would get some prize from them. Then none of the other aunts dared to get up, so Grandma did it instead. It was fun that she went up on stage. It was actually awesome." (aftonbladet.se)

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OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
When she made her Olympic Winter Games ski cross debut at Sochi 2014, she was the youngest athlete on the Swedish team (17 years, 230 days). She failed to finish her semi-final, ending up in the small final, which she won, finishing fifth.

Won her semi-final to reach the big final, finishing fourth at PyeongChang 2018.

Won the gold medal in ski cross at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
In four World Championships ski cross races, she has won two gold medals (2017, 2021). She was 20 years, 255 days of age, the youngest ski cross world champion, male or female, and the first Swede to capture the world title (2017).

Won back-to-back Junior World Championships (2016, 2017) and is the 2014 silver medallist.

WORLD CUP
Her 17th World Cup victory was on 21 March 2021 in Veysonnaz (it was her 43rd podium finish).

During the 2017/18 season, she won both the skicross and the overall freestyle skiing World Cups for women (in 2020/21, she was first in ski cross, second overall).