Anna Hiruth Katarina Sandström Borglund (born 20 March 1974 in

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) is a

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and

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. She has several times been nominated for and won awards for best news anchor and for best spoken Swedish on television. She has led the evening news broadcast ''

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'' on SVT since 2000. In parallel with work on ''Rapport'', Sandström also has participated in major events such as the SVT broadcasts from the

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, ''One year with the Royal Family'' (annual broadcast with the

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on New Year's Eve) and ''National election coverage'' in 2006. She has previously worked on the radio news broadcast Dagens Eko ("Echo of the day") and newspaper ''Västerbotten Folkblad'', a local newspaper for northern Sweden.

Personal life

She grew up in the northern Swedish town of

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with her brother and twin sister, all born in

. In May 2004, she married Tommy Borglund in the Västerbacka chapel in Tavelsjö.

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