Sandra Keith (born 11 December 1980) is an

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

biathlete 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 ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

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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 The National Sport School (NSS) is a public high school (secondary school) in Calgary, Alberta which teaches grades 9 through 12. In partnership with Winsport Canada, the school was created to support student athletes with Olympic potential. Dev ...

(located in Calgary ) to compete in the 2006 games. She is a student at

Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public research 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 ...

, working on her Bachelor of Commerce 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 gold ...

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