Tobiasz Szyndler

Poland | Active: 2023-2026 public FIS record | Known for: Szczyrk rail events, Winter Universiade finals, Polish freeski titles, Urlaub street movie | Current: KS Alpino / Silesian University of Technology / Academic Representation of Poland

Szczyrk Metal Under Festival Light

The Szczyrk rail line sat under festival light, cold metal cutting through a spring-night crowd while Tobiasz Szyndler set his skis flat for the first feature. Polish freeskiing does not produce many international start-list names, so the home event mattered. Szyndler’s public record is still compact, but it has a clear shape: rail events in Szczyrk, a student-athlete chapter at the Winter Universiade, and a street-film credit that connects him to a wider European crew. His skiing sits between official competition and urban-style rail culture, with enough verified results to mark him as one of Poland’s more visible current freeski riders.

KS Alpino On The FIS Sheet

FIS lists Szyndler as a Polish freestyle skier born on June 3, 2000, affiliated with KS Alpino and active under FIS Code 2539594. The public FIS trail begins late compared with many academy-developed slopestyle athletes, with results appearing from 2023 onward. That makes his profile different from a teenage prospect moving through a national pipeline. Szyndler appears more like a rider who reached the international database after building a Polish freeski base through domestic events, instruction, student sport and rail-focused competition. His disciplines are slopestyle, big air and freeski rail event, but the strongest results so far come on metal rather than jump-only formats.

Zakopane Before The Rail Results

The first FIS result on his profile came at Zakopane Gubałówka in March 2023, where he placed fourth in the Polish National Championships freeski slopestyle event. The big air entry the next day is listed as DNS, so the useful information is the slopestyle result itself. Zakopane gives his record a domestic starting point before the Szczyrk rail events became more visible. Slopestyle requires a fuller run: rail section, jump timing, speed management, grab control, landing precision and the ability to connect features without stopping the rhythm. That fourth place showed a national-level contest base before the later podiums.

Skalite Szczyrk And The First FIS Win

The clearest early breakthrough came at Skalite Szczyrk on March 2, 2024. FIS lists Szyndler first in the men’s freeski rail event with a score of 165.67, ahead of Szczepan Karpiel and Stanisław Solik. The field was Polish, but the result still matters because it shows his strongest format. Rail events reward a different skill set from slopestyle: lock-in quality, switch-ups, balance over kinks, controlled exits, surface changes and the ability to repeat tricks under quick pressure. Szyndler’s public trajectory became more specific after that win. He was not only a slopestyle entrant; he was a rail-event skier with a home-country result to build from.

Bardonecchia And The Student-Athlete Moment

In January 2025, Szyndler represented Poland at the Winter Universiade in Turin, with the freeski events held at Bardonecchia. The Silesian University of Technology identified him as a fifth-year preschool and early-school pedagogy student and part of Poland’s Academic Representation. Snowfest later summarized his event results: sixth in slopestyle qualification, seventh in the final, tenth in big air qualification and ninth in the big air final. FIS confirms the slopestyle final result at Bardonecchia, where he scored 65.50 for seventh. For a Polish freeskier without a large World Cup résumé, reaching both Universiade finals gave his profile an international student-sport marker.

The Bigger Event Without The Bigger Pressure

The university interview adds a useful personal angle. Szyndler described the Universiade as a large event and said he had chosen freestyle skiing partly to avoid pressure and expectations, focusing on enjoying the ride and completing his best run. That statement fits the way his public record reads. He is not presented as a heavily marketed pro athlete or a federation centerpiece. He appears as a student, instructor and competitor moving through the sport with a practical relationship to skiing. The same article notes that he was the only Polish athlete entered in freestyle skiing at the Games, which makes the Bardonecchia results stand out more inside Poland’s small freeski field.

European Cup Rails At Home

The 2025 Szczyrk European Cup rail event gave Szyndler his strongest FIS points result. On March 8, 2025, he placed second behind Jakub Koula of the Czech Republic and ahead of Eliasz Kiszka, earning 97.80 FIS points and 80 cup points. One year later, FIS lists him third at Szczyrk in another European Cup men’s freeski rail event, behind Tyler Nicholls-Stubbington and Štěpán Hudeček. Those two podiums show consistency in the same discipline and location. They also place him among Czech, Irish, Latvian, Slovak and Polish riders, a regional European rail scene that sits below the X Games spotlight but keeps competitive freeski active in smaller nations.

Urlaub And The Street-Skiing Detour

Szyndler’s record is not only official competition. Prime Skiing listed him in Urlaub, a 2023-24 European full street movie built around Christian Gander, Christian Moser, Simon Geminiani, Tim Krey and Szyndler. That credit gives his profile a different texture. Street skiing asks for patience that contests do not always show: finding rails, shaping run-ins, dealing with concrete landings, waiting for snow, carrying equipment through cities and trying tricks where nothing is designed for skiing. For Szyndler, Urlaub connects the Polish rail-event record to a broader European urban crew language, where feature choice and filming matter as much as ranking.

Pedagogy, Coaching And The Polish Freeski Role

WooBooDooBoo’s team page describes Szyndler as a pedagogy student with experience as an independent educator and instructor. The same page calls him a Polish Ski Association freeski big-air champion and slopestyle runner-up, although it does not attach dates to those titles. That detail is useful because it matches the rest of the record: athlete, student and instructor rather than only one-dimensional competitor. In a smaller freeski country, those roles often overlap. A skier can compete, teach, travel with younger riders, explain tricks, build confidence and help keep a community alive while still chasing his own starts.

The Next Polish Start List

Szyndler’s current profile is best read as a developing European rail and slopestyle skier with a narrow but coherent archive. The strongest verified markers are fourth at the 2023 Polish slopestyle nationals, the 2024 Skalite Szczyrk rail-event win, 2025 Universiade finals in slopestyle and big air, second at the 2025 Szczyrk European Cup rail event, third at the 2026 Szczyrk European Cup rail event, and a role in Urlaub. The next step is measurable: more European Cup rail podiums, deeper international starts outside Poland, and street footage that shows whether his rail-event control can travel beyond home venues.