Tom Sandberg

Tom Sandberg
nation	Norway
birthday	August 6, 1955
place of birth	Mo i Rana ,  Norway
size	175 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
society	Mon ski day
National squad	since 1974
status	resigned
End of career	1984
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 1 × National medals 9 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1984 Sarajevo singles  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1982 Oslo Single (NH) bronze 1982 Oslo 3 × 10 km team (NH) gold 1984 Rovaniemi 3 × 10 km team (NH)  Norwegian championships bronze 1974 Meldal singles gold 1975 Rælingen singles gold 1976 Fåvang singles gold 1977 Vang singles gold 1978 Kongsberg singles gold 1979 Steinkjer singles gold 1980 Meldal singles gold 1982 Raufoss singles gold 1983 Lillehammer singles
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	7th January 1984
World Cup victories (individual)	2 ( details )
Overall World Cup	1. ( 1983/84 )

Tom Sandberg (born August 6, 1955 in Mo i Rana ) is a former Norwegian combined and Olympic champion.

Career

Sandberg won the bronze medal in the individual Nordic combined at the Norwegian Championships in Meldal in 1974 behind Pål Schjetne and Arne Bystøl . In the same year he won the combination competition on Holmenkollen for the first time.

At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Autrans in 1974 , he won the silver medal in the individual competition behind Konrad Winkler . A year later at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Lieto in 1975 , he finally won the gold medal. In the same year he won the Norwegian Championships in Rælingen , he also won his first national title. Five more Norwegian championship titles followed in a row by 1980.

At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , he finished eighth in the individual combination. Four years later at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he improved significantly and just barely missed a medal in fourth.

At the 1982 World Cup in Oslo , he won an exciting final sprint with just 0.2 seconds ahead of Konrad Winkler . On January 7, 1984, he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Schonach in the Black Forest . As 15th he managed to win one World Cup point in his first World Cup. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , held a few weeks later , he won gold in the individual discipline.

At his first World Cup after the Games, he finished second in Falun , making his first podium. He just missed the repetition of this success as fourth in Lahti . In Oslo , however, he was back on the podium before winning team gold at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Rovaniemi in 1984 together with Geir Andersen and Hallstein Bøgseth .

After winning his last World Cup in Štrbské Pleso on March 24, 1984, he finished the 1983/84 season as the first in the overall World Cup standings. Despite this success, he did not appear in the World Cup in the following season.

successes

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
February 12, 1984	Sarajevo	Yugoslavia	singles
March 24, 1984	Štrbské Pleso	Czechoslovakia	singles

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place	2					2
2nd place	2					2
3rd place
Top 10	4th					4th
Scoring	5					5
Starts	5					5
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Awards

In 1983 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal , in 1984 with the Morgenbladet Gold Medal .

Private

Sandberg is the son of Jens Ole Sandberg and Ester Marie Krokstrand. In 1981 he married Ragnhild Monsen. After the end of his active career, Sandberg worked as a physical education teacher.

Web links

• Tom Sandberg in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Tom Sandberg in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Tom Sandberg in the store norske leksikon
• Tom Sandberg on The-Sports.org (Profile 1)
• Tom Sandberg on The-Sports.org (Profile 2)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER ( MS Word ; 2.3 MB) , 2007
2. ^ Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
3. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1974 - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
4. ^ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1975 - Men's Individual K90 / 15.0 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
5. ↑ World Ski Championships 1984 - Men's Team K90 / 3x10 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
6. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
7. ↑ Prisvinnere Aftenpostens gullmedalje ( Norwegian ) Store norske leksikon . Retrieved November 27, 2013.