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.
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.
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.Winter Olympics 2026: Daniela Maier claims freestyle skiing women’s ski cross gold. Sandra Näslund wins bronze olympics.com. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
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 SeasonDateLocation 2016–2017 2 victories14 January 2017 Watles, Italy11 February 2017 Idre, Sweden 2017–2018 7 victories7 December 2017 Val Thorens, France12 December 2017 Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland22 December 2017 Innichen, Italy13 January 2018 Idre, Sweden14 January 2018 Idre, Sweden20 January 2018 Nakiska, Alberta, Canada4 March 2018 Sunny Valley, Russia 2018–2019 3 victories22 December 2018 Innichen, Italy16 February 2019 Feldberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany17 February 2019 Feldberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 2019–2020 3 victories6 December 2019 Val Thorens, France18 January 2020 Nakiska, Alberta, Canada26 January 2020 Idre, Sweden 2020–2021 2 victories19 February 2021 Reiteralm, Austria21 March 2021 Veysonnaz, Switzerland 2021–2022 11 victories27 November 2021 Secret Garden, China11 December 2021 Val Thorens, France12 December 2021 Val Thorens, France19 December 2021 Innichen, Italy20 December 2021 Innichen, Italy14 January 2022 Nakiska, Alberta, Canada15 January 2022 Nakiska, Alberta, Canada22 January 2022 Idre, Sweden23 January 2022 Idre, Sweden13 March 2022 Reiteralm, Austria19 March 2022 Veysonnaz, Switzerland 2022–2023 9 victories8 December 2022 Val Thorens, France9 December 2022 Val Thorens, France12 December 2022 Arosa, Switzerland21 December 2022 Innichen, Italy22 December 2022 Innichen, Italy21 January 2023 Idre, Sweden22 January 2023 Idre, Sweden16 February 2023 Reiteralm, Austria17 February 2023 Reiteralm, Austria 2023–2024 2 victories7 December 2023 Val Thorens21 December 2023 Innichen 2025–2026 11 victories11 December 2025 Val Thorens12 December 202516 December 2025 Arosa 21 December 2025 Innichen, Italy23 January 2026 Veysonnaz, Switzerland27 February 2026 Kopaonik, Serbia28 February 202612 March 2026 Montafon, Austria22 March 2026 Craigleith, Canada28 March 2026 Gällivare, Sweden29 March 2026
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
References
External links
Sandra Naeslund at Milano Cortina 2026