Sandra Näslund

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.^[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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[8][9] Näslund also dominated the Ski cross World Cup over the 2021–22 season, winning eleven out of twelve races.^{[citation needed]}

She won the bronze medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.^[10]

Näslund is openly lesbian.^[11]