Team Sweden Emerges Victorious at CopenHill's Scandinavian Team Battle

The Scandinavian Team Battle has come and gone, with Swedish freestyle maestros Emil Granbom and Jesper Tjäder taking the win for the fourth year in a row at CopenHill-- Copenhagen, Denmark's year-round ski slope.

Take a look at our select gallery from the competition below. All photos provided by The Scandinavian Team Battle.

Scandinavian Team Battle 2024

The world's best park skiers gathered at CopenHill, Denmark for one of the premier competitions of the summer.

The crowd was fired up.

Jesper Tjäder of Team Sweden lays it out for the crowd.

"Team Norway were so close to bringing it home this year but Team Sweden are just unstoppable and they basically nailed every run throughout the entire day," the event's judges noted.

As is tradition, the event was held at CopenHill, a waste-to-energy facility that doubles as a summer ski slope with artificial snow in Copenhagen, Denmark. Onlookers enjoyed bars, food stands, DJ sets, a concert, and a rooftop party alongside the freestyle skiing show.

Also tradition—competitors don't jostle for victory alone at the Scandinavian Team Battle. Instead, they pair up based on nationality, pursuing top marks in a team effort as they ski the course together. Granbom and Tjäder threw down for Sweden. Other competing nationalities included Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Innsbruck (Austria).

The course featured a smattering of rails, jumps, and—taking a note from the Unrailistic playbook—a gap over a small swimming pool. The Team Battle's competition format is simple and open-ended. Whichever pairing throws down the hardest on the course takes victory, allowing competitors to get weird and try funky team-oriented tricks.

"This format is such a sick and fun way to get creative with your teammate," said Team Denmark competitor and event organizer Jakob Ebskamp.

For instance, at one point, Granbom hopped into the swimming pool, sticking his legs and skis overhead to create a transfer rail for his teammate, Tjäder, to slide. Ebskamp got in on the fun, too, using the skis of fellow Dane Isabella Tvede as a jump. In another wacky moment, Mikkel BK of Norway aired over his teammate while holding an umbrella.

The umbrella wasn't just a schtick. The last 15 minutes of the two-hour Scandinavian Team Battle jam saw torrential rain, which prompted the announcer to make an astute observation, "More rain equals more speed!"

The weather did little to curtail the competitor's infectious energy. BK took advantage of the speed boost, launching what the event's press release called the furthest jump ever landed at CopenHill: "The fact that his knees were still functioning afterwards was impressive."

A full video recap of this year's Scandinavian Team Battle will be released next week.

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