Vincent Froiants wins Sweden parkour title in tense Karlstad final

Vincent Froiants won Sweden’s parkour title at SM-veckan in Karlstad, taking the final at Sandgrund after the top six had their scores reset for one last run. Oliwer Johansson took silver and Anton Berglund earned bronze, with Froiants prevailing by only a small margin.

That is what decided the championship in competition terms: not the spring video qualification, where 18 athletes earned places from 20 available slots, but the final itself, where the leaderboard was wiped clean and execution under pressure mattered most. The federation had set the event for Saturday, June 27, 2026, from 10.00 to 12.00, and its invitation said the course would be 3D printed with wooden details, with athletes allowed to test it during the week before competition. The same invitation opened the title race to anyone turning 13 during 2026, and boys and girls competed together.

Froiants’ win carried extra weight because the reigning Swedish champion and international star Elis Torhall withdrew only days before the event. That changed the shape of the final and gave the Karlstad field a different kind of tension, even if Froiants had already shown he could reach the top of Swedish parkour before, with a previous national title in 2023. It also marked a sharp turnaround from 2025 in Norrköping, where Froiants was ninth in qualifying with 352 points while Torhall won the final and Johansson finished second.

The broader competitive picture says as much about Sweden’s parkour hierarchy as the medal table does. Froiants did not emerge from nowhere, but he did return to the top after a season in which Torhall looked like the benchmark. That makes the Karlstad result feel less like a total surprise than a reminder that parkour titles are decided by who handles the final, not by who carries the biggest reputation into it.

SM-veckan also gave the sport a stage larger than a single championship. Karlstad hosted the summer edition for the first time, with SVT reporting expectations of about 4,000 participants, leaders and officials across roughly 30 sports, plus around 70,000 visitors during the week. Against that backdrop, parkour’s national final sat alongside a much wider public festival, and the start list reflected the sport’s spread across the country, from Velox Freerun and Karlstad Parkour to clubs in Kungsbacka, Jönköping, Stockholm, Malmö, Göteborg and Värmland.