Red Bull TV “Winter Heroes” Episode Follows Swedish Freeskier Jesper Tjäder As He Fights Back From Injury Ahead Of The Winter Season 2026

Red Bull TV “Winter Heroes” episode follows the inventive Swedish freeskier as he fights back from injury ahead of the winter season 2026

In this 14-minute film, Swedish freeskier Jesper Tjäder, who just qualified to compete on the world’s biggest winter stage, shares his world with viewers – one where the joy of creating always comes before medals and results.

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The film follows Tjäder as he recovers from an ACL injury sustained in January 2025, taking the viewers through his rehabilitation and back on the path toward peak form ahead of Italy – all while exploring the creative drive that has made him one of the most unique figures in the world of skiing.

Tjäder has completed several acclaimed film projects in recent years, reaching hundreds of millions of views worldwide. His spectacular Open Loop rail slide was released in April 2024 – an open-loop concept he sketched and developed for nine years before it finally became reality. In 2022, in Åre, Sweden, he also broke the world record for the longest rail ever skied at 154.5 meters, a project that required 127 attempts before success.

“I’m a skier who just wants to have fun,” he says. “Medals aren’t the reason I started skiing – they’re just a bonus.”

For Swedish freeski head coach Oscar Wester, it’s Tjäder’s creativity that’s the key to his success. “He has always had ideas that stand out. That’s what has made him so successful in competition and what has led to such strong project and film concepts.”

Watch Jesper Tjäder’s “Winter Heroes” on Red Bull TV: https://www.redbull.com/int-en/episodes/winter-heroes-s1-e15

The short-documentary series Winter Heroes, released on Red Bull TV, offers an intimate look at the journeys of elite athletes as they prepare for the world’s biggest winter stage. The series follows 15 Red Bull athletes – from legends to rising prodigies – including Eileen Gu, Marcel Hirscher, Anna Gasser, Ryōyū Kobayashi and Kjeld Nuis, across snowboarding, ski jumping, speed skating, alpine skiing and ski mountaineering.

Produced by Red Bull Media House, every Winter Heroes episode runs 10 to 15 minutes and is narrated in the athlete’s native language, with burnt-in subtitles in English, plus subtitled versions available in seven other languages: FR, DE, IT, JP, PL, ES (Castellano), CH (Simplified).