Ståle Sandbech

Ståle Sandbech, born 3 June 1993 in Bærum, is a Norwegian snowboarder who specialises in big air and slopestyle. He competed at the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal in the men's slopestyle at the 2014 Games in Sochi, the first year slopestyle was on the Olympic programme, which was also Norway's first medal of those Games. At the Winter X Games he won two silver medals, in 2015 and 2017, and three bronze medals in 2013 and 2014, and he took a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships. At 16 he was the youngest Norwegian to go to the Olympics since Sonja Henie in 1928, and he won the World Snowboarding Tour in freestyle in 2011-12. He competes for the club BSK Snowboard and won the Natural Selection Tour event in Revelstoke in 2025.