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Tom Sandberg

Tom Sandberg

Tom Sandberg in March, 1978
Personal information
Born	6 August 1955 (1955-08-06) (age 68) Mo i Rana, Norway
Sport
Sport	Nordic combined
Club	Mo Skilag
Medal record Men's Nordic combined Representing  Norway Olympic Games 1984 Sarajevo Individual World Championships 1982 Oslo 15 km individual 1984 Rovaniemi 3 × 10 km team 1982 Oslo 3 × 10 km team

Tom Sandberg (born 6 August 1955) is a former nordic combined skier from Mo i Rana, Norway who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

During the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he won the 15 km individual event by 0.2 seconds over Konrad WinklerofEast Germany. Sandberg also earned two medals in the team event at the world championships as well (gold: 1984, silver: 1982 – tied with Finland). His greatest year was 1984, when he became Olympic champion and won the World Cup. Sandberg also won nine national championships during his career.

Sandberg also won the Nordic combined event the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1974. Nine years later, he earned the Holmenkollen medal (Shared with Berit Aunli.).

He has his education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.^[1]

• Tom Sandberg at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)

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