Tom Sandberg

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Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Olympic Games
Gold 1984 Sarajevo Individual
World Championships
Gold 1982 Oslo 15 km individual
Gold 1984 Rovaniemi 3 x 10 km team
Silver 1982 Oslo 3 x 10 km team

Tom Sandberg (born August 6, 1955) is a former nordic combined skier from Mo, Norway who competed during the early 1980's.

During the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he won the 15 km individual event by 0.2 seconds over Konrad Winkler of East 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 double 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.).

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Olympic champions in nordic combined individual
1924: Thorleif Haug * 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1932: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1936: Oddbjørn Hagen * 1948: Heikki Hasu * 1952: Simon Slåttvik * 1956: Sverre Stenersen * 1960: Georg Thoma * 1964: Tormod Knutsen * 1968: Franz Keller * 1972: Ulrich Wehling * 1976: Ulrich Wehling * 1980: Ulrich Wehling * 1984: Tom Sandberg * 1988: Hippolyt Kempf * 1992: Fabrice Guy * 1994: Fred Børre Lundberg * 1998: Bjarte Engen Vik * 2002: Samppa Lajunen * 2006: Georg Hettich
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World champions in nordic combined individual
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World champions in men's team nordic combined
3 x 10 km
4 x 5 km
Preceded by
Johan Sætre		 Holmenkollen medal with Berit Aunli
1983		 Succeeded by
Lars-Erik Eriksen, Jacob Vaage, & Armin Kogler
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