Britt Strandberg

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Medal record
Women's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold	1960 Squaw Valley	3 x 5 km
Silver	1964 Innsbruck	3 x 5 km
Silver	1968 Grenoble	3 x 5 km
World Championships
Silver	1962 Zakopane	3 x 5 km
Bronze	1966 Oslo	3 x 5 km

Britt Strandberg (born March 31, 1934). is a former Swedish cross country skier who competed in the 1960's. She won three Winter Olympic medals in the 3 x 5 km with a gold in 1960 and silvers in 1964 and 1968.

Sandberg also won 3 x 5 km medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver in 1962 and a bronze in 1966.

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• Swedish skiing medalists 1924-2006 (Swedish)
• FIS Profile

Olympic champions in women's cross country skiing 4 x 5 km relay

(As 3 x 5 km) 1956 Finland Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, & Siiri Rantanen 1960 Sweden Irma Johansson, Britt Strandberg, & Sonja Ruthström-Edström 1964 Soviet Union Alevtina Kolchina, Yevdokiya Mekshilo, & Klavdija Bojarskikh 1968 Norway Inger Aufles, Babben Enger Damon, & Berit Mørdre Lammedal 1972 Soviet Union Lyubov Mukhacheva, Alevtina Olyunina, & Galina Kulakova (As 4 x 5 km) 1976 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, & Galina Kulakova 1980 East Germany Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Schmidt, & Barbara Petzold 1984 Norway Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Brit Pettersen, & Berit Aunli 1988 Soviet Union Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Tamara Tikhonova, & Anfisa Reztsova 1992 Unified Team Yelena Välbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larisa Lazutina, & Lyubov Yegorova 1994 Russia Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk, & Lyubov Yegorova 1998 Russia Nina Gavrilyuk, Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, & Larisa Lazutina 2002 Germany Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel, & Evi Sachenbacher 2006 Russia Natalia Baranova-Masolkina, Larisa Kurkina, Julija Tchepalova, & Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova