snowboard
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er, who specialises in Big Air, and Slopestyle. He has participated at the
2010
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2014
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2018
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, and
2022 Winter Olympics
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and won a silver medal in the Men's slopestyle in 2014. Sandbech has also competed at several
Winter X Games
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, winning 2 Silver medals in 2015 and 2017 and 3 bronze medals in 2013 and 2014, and a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.
Career
Sandbech comes from
Rykkinn
Rykkinn is a commuter town in the north-west of Bærum, Akershus county, Norway with 9217 inhabitants (2022).BSK Snowboard. He started snowboarding at the age of eight and, in 2007, was invited to the rookie-competition of The Arctic Challenge. The organizer of TAC
Terje Håkonsen
Terje Håkonsen (born 11 October 1974) is a Norwegian professional snowboarder. He is considered one of the most influential snowboarders in the history of the sport. In the book ''The way of the snowboarder'', Rob Reed wrote that "Haakonsen took ...
said Sandbech was the best 13-year-old snowboarder in Norway at the time.
Sandbech represented Norway at the
2010 Winter Olympics
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in
Vancouver
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, becoming the youngest Norwegian to go to the Olympics since
Sonja Henie
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represented Norway at the
1928 Winter Olympics
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82 years earlier. Sandbech won the
World Snowboarding Tour
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in freestyle in 2011–12.
Sandbech won a bronze medal in Big Air at the 2013 Winter X Games, where his countryman
Torstein Horgmo
Torstein Horgmo (born 18 February 1987) is a Norwegian professional snowboarder. Horgmo has competed, and medalled in, a variety of slopestyle and big air snowboarding competitions. He rides regular stance.
Personal
Horgmo grew up in Trondhe ...
won gold. Four Norwegians qualified for the Big Air final in the 2014 games, with Sandbech placing the highest and winning the bronze medal. The next day, he won another bronze medal in slopestyle.
At the
2014 Winter Olympics
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, Sandbech participated in
slopestyle
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, the first time it was included in an Olympic program. He tried a triple cork in his first run but failed to land it. He had a successful second run, and with 91.75 points, he placed second behind
Sage Kotsenburg
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. It was Norway's first medal in the 2014 Olympics. Former snowboarder and Norwegian TV 2 commentator,
Andreas Wiig
Andreas Ygre Wiig (born 5 March 1981) is a Norwegian professional snowboarder. He rides regular.
Andreas was born in Oslo and grew up in Asker. He made a name for himself when he won two gold medals at the 2007 and 2008 Winter X Games ...
, and the Swedish slopestyle competitor,
Sven Thorgren
Sven Thorgren (born 4 October 1994) is a Swedish snowboarder who competes in slopestyle.
He started snowboarding when he was seven years old. He practiced every day after school on a small mountain called Väsjöbacken. Thorgren qualified for t ...
, both stated that Sandbech should have won the gold as he performed better than Kotsenburg in their opinions.
Sandbech competed in the 2015 Winter X Games in
Aspen, Colorado
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, where he placed 5th in Men's
BigAir
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and earned a silver medal in
Slopestyle
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. The following year during the 2016 Winter X Games, Sandbech placed 5th in BigAir and 7th in Slopestyle.
During the 2017 Winter X Games, he placed 5th in Big Air and just off the podium of Slopestyle in only 4th place with a score of 85.66. While Sandbech did compete during the 2019 Winter X Games, he did not make it into any finals.
During the
2018 Winter Olympics
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, Sandbech competed in Big Air and slopestyle, where he finished just outside the podium i 4th At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Sandbech qualified in 4th for the slopestyle final, where he finished 11th. In the big air event, Sandbech placed 16th in the qualifier and did not advance to the final competition.Qualification results /ref>
Sandbech placed 2nd with a score of 80.43 at the 202 LAAX Open earning himself a silver medal.