Tom Sandberg

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. At the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he won the 15 km individual event by 0.2 seconds over Konrad Winkler of East Germany, and he added two world championship team medals, a gold in 1984 and a silver in 1982 that was tied with Finland. His greatest year was 1984, when he became Olympic champion and won the World Cup. He won the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1974, and nine years later he earned the Holmenkollen medal, shared with Berit Aunli. Sandberg also won nine national championships during his career and was educated at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.