Knut Fineid

Lillehammer, Norway | Active Public Record: 2014-2025 | Known for: park skiing, taps, Geilo sessions, SuperUnknown XV, NTG Lillehammer coaching | Current: Jib-focused Norwegian freeski presence

Geilo Before The Season Had Snow

The rail line at Geilo looked more like a promise than a full winter. Early-season light sat flat on the shaped snow, skis scraped across metal, and Knut Fineid moved through the setup with the loose timing of someone who never needed a contest bib to ski fast.

Fineid’s public ski record lives in that space: Norwegian park laps, summer glacier crews, Breckenridge edits, SuperUnknown exposure, and later coaching work at NTG Lillehammer. He is not documented as a major X Games, World Cup, or Olympic athlete. His story is smaller, more local, and more useful for understanding the Norwegian jib scene behind the headline names.

Lillehammer On The FIS Sheet

FIS identifies Knut Fineid as a Norwegian freestyle skier from Lillehammer, born in 1997, with FIS Code 2532255. His official competition record covers slopestyle and big air starts from 2014 through 2018, including events at Skeikampen, Kirkerud, Drammen Skisenter, Oppdal, Hafjell, Hovden, Geilo, and Dombås.

The results show a skier who passed through the formal Norwegian contest system without becoming defined by it. His strongest listed FIS result is sixth in slopestyle at Drammen Skisenter in February 2015, followed by later national championship starts. After that period, the available public profile shifts away from rankings and toward edits, road sessions, and coaching.

Breck Taps In Gavin Rudy’s Cut

Newschoolers’ 2017 “On The Come Up” profile framed Fineid as a Norwegian skier who could easily be noticed in Breckenridge’s park. The article connected him to Gavin Rudy’s 2nd Cut and focused on original taps, finesse, and a style that stood apart inside a crowded online ski-media feed.

Fineid explained in that interview that 2017 was his fourth year skiing Breckenridge. He compared Colorado park maintenance with Norwegian resorts, saying he liked a mixture of both because skiing the same setup for weeks can become repetitive. That quote fits the way his clips are presented: not as training blocks, but as park play shaped by speed, friends, and feature choice.

Geilo With Bråten, Ruud, Øye, And Voll

Downdays’ Fast Laps – Geilo Preseason Shred, published in October 2016, placed Fineid in a Norwegian crew with Øystein Bråten, Robert Ruud, Bendik Øye, and Siver Voll. The edit was built around Geilo’s preseason park, where rails and shaped snow carried the session before a deeper winter base arrived.

That cast matters. Bråten would become one of Norway’s most visible slopestyle skiers, while Ruud, Øye, and Voll all sit inside the same rail-heavy Norwegian freestyle conversation. Fineid’s name appears beside them not as a podium rival, but as a jib skier whose value comes from pace, control, and the ability to keep a session moving.

Juvass Summer Laps Above Norway

In August 2017, Downdays published Fast Laps – Juvass from the Juvass summer ski center in Norway. The crew included Øystein Bråten, Fineid, Petter Ulsletten, Ferdinand Dahl, and Christian Nummedal, with Wordup Projects credited as producer. The setting was summer skiing, not a winter tour stop.

Juvass gives Fineid’s profile a clear geographic anchor. Norwegian freeskiing has long used summer snowfields and glacier parks to keep rail and jump rhythm alive outside the main season. In that context, Fineid appears as part of a technical park group working through takeoffs, landings, rail speed, switch control, and soft-snow adjustments in a compressed summer window.

The 2017 Edit Around Metal And Shaped Snow

Downdays also published Knut Fineid Ski Edit in November 2017. The description presented him as a young skier tearing through metal and shaped snow structures around home and central Europe, with SLVSH mentioned as the place to watch more battles. The language points directly to rails, tubes, takeoffs, and park architecture.

That edit is the cleanest single reference for his creative profile. It does not require a medal table to explain him. The skiing is positioned around feature use: how a rider approaches a rail, decides when to tap, keeps skis flat over metal, and uses shaped snow as more than a jump deck. Fineid’s identity sits inside that technical park vocabulary.

SuperUnknown XV And The Amateur Filter

In March 2018, Level 1 Productions listed Fineid among the 16 semi-finalists for SuperUnknown XV, presented with Winter Park Resort, Wells Lamont, and Newschoolers. The SuperUnknown format has historically worked as a discovery filter for skiers outside the established contest circuit, judging edits through style, creativity, and video impact.

Fineid’s semi-finalist selection fits the rest of his record. He had enough presence to be seen beyond Norway, but the documentation still points toward an underground park lane rather than a long sponsor-driven film career. For a skier like him, SuperUnknown is more relevant than a World Cup ranking because it rewards the kind of skiing his public edits show.

NTG Lillehammer And Teaching The Jib Line

Fri Flyt reported in July 2018 that Fineid joined NTG Lillehammer’s freeski coaching staff with PK Hunder after Espen Berg-Johnsen stepped away. The article described Fineid as a former NTG student returning to work as a coach after several years spent mainly skiing.

The same report drew a contrast between Hunder’s competition-oriented background and Fineid’s dislike of contests. Fineid said he would still ski a lot and that he had always skied mainly for fun. That coaching role turns his biography into more than an edit archive: he became part of the Norwegian development pathway for younger park skiers learning technique, video review, daily training habits, and feature confidence.

Fonna Still In The Roster

Fineid’s name still appears in recent ski-media context. Freeskier’s 2025 post on Fonna Summerpark listed him in a crew that included Siver Voll, Mike McKernan, Aleksander Kongelf, Eirik Moberg, Johan Berg, Vetle Rygh, Øystein Bråten, William Bostadløkken, Leon Jacobsen, and Mats Bjørndal.

That does not make him a headline athlete, but it confirms the continuity of his role. Fineid remains connected to the Norwegian park environment that shaped his earlier edits: glacier laps, tubes, rails, crew filming, and soft snow where technical skiers can keep refining small-feature style. His public story is best read through those sessions, not through an international medal count.

Where Fineid Fits In Norwegian Freeskiing

Knut Fineid’s profile is built from verified fragments: FIS starts, Breckenridge park commentary, Fast Laps appearances, a 2017 edit, SuperUnknown XV semi-finalist status, NTG Lillehammer coaching, and a later Fonna Summerpark roster. Together, they describe a skier rooted in jib culture rather than contest dominance.

The clean frame is Norway’s park ecosystem. Fineid sits near the riders, coaches, and film crews who make the sport visible between major events. His skiing belongs to rails, taps, summer snow, Geilo sessions, Juvass laps, and the daily process of helping the next skier understand speed, balance, pressure, and timing over metal.