Sandra Keith (born 11 December 1980) is an

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biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

for

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. She was part of Canada's team in the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics (), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter O ...

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. Keith retired after the 2009–10 season.

Personal life

Sandra Keith was one of about 20 alumni of the National Sport School (located in Calgary ) to compete in the 2006 games. She is a student at

Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first Canadian ...

, working on her

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degree. She was married to Norwegian biathlon star

Halvard Hanevold Halvard Hanevold (3 December 1969 – 3 September 2019) was a Norwegian biathlete. Career Hanevold won medals in biathlon events at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics by winning his first Olympic gold followed by another go ...

from 2011 until his death in 2019. She was part of a group of five athletes who posed for the Bold Beautiful Biathlon calendar.

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AU student competes at the OlympicsSandra Keith on Real ChampionsNude calendar fund raiser for the 2010 games
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keith, Sandra Living people Canadian female biathletes Olympic biathletes for Canada Skiers from Ottawa 1980 births Athabasca University alumni Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics 21st-century Canadian sportswomen