Jesper
Tjäder
Sweden
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Freeskiing
Date of birth | 22 May 1994 |
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Place of birth | Östersund, Sweden |
Age | 30 |
Nationality | Sweden |
Career start | 2011 |
Disciplines | Freeskiing Big Air / Freeskiing Street |
Jesper Tjäder started to ski when he was around four years old, and since then he's been pushing himself to learn all sorts of new tricks on skis. "I always try to push the sport and come up with tricks that no one has ever done before, or maybe only a few have done," says Tjäder. "Then I also try to push film and competition skiing with all these new and crazy tricks."
Tjäder has stacked up a bunch of awards – he picked up the IF3 Rookie of the Year in 2011, and both the 2011 Best Rail Skier of the Year and 2012 Park Shredder of the Year awards from the Transition Winter Awards. Always a crowd favourite, he stomped a huge double backflip at the 2015 Jon Olsson Invitational and secured a well-earned People's Choice award.