Anton Thelander: From Slopestyle Phenom to Burnout & Finding the Love Again
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
Swedish mountain bike royalty Anton Thelander is on the podcast! On this episode of The Ride Companion Anton talks about going from local skateparks and Sweden's MTB school to Red Bull Phenom, a 4th place at Joyride and a Rampage debut before suffering the effects of burnout.
In this brutally honest conversation Anton opens up about Martin Söderström's mentorship, Canyon signing, that first Red Bull helmet reveal and the tough years. Anton opens up about depression, losing contracts, moving back home, and how he started rebuilding with therapy, movement, a new toolbox for his mind, and finally rediscovering riding during covid.
Anton also talks about being back involved in slopestyle with a healthier relationship to the bike and a new purpose as a judge. He shares what judging actually looks like (the silhouette rule), why the trick economy is like learning Excel plus much more...
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| 0:00.0 | And again, I'm kind of mindfully of not like throwing anyone on the bus or whatever. |
| 0:03.9 | But like, you know when you get the Red Bull contract? |
| 0:06.6 | Yep. |
| 0:07.5 | That seems like something that a lot of athletes have forever, |
| 0:11.1 | whether they go through bad moments, come back. |
| 0:13.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:14.2 | There's not many examples of people not having it. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, yeah. Of people not having it. |
| 0:32.6 | All right, welcome back, ladies gentlemen, and on today's episode, we are joined by Swedish Mountain Bike Royalty, Anton Thielander. |
| 0:35.9 | Oh, thanks. Did I say it right? Tailander, it's good. That's right, isn't it? Yeah, I think so, yeah. The Cleanlander. Clean lander. In Swedish would be Tealander. Teland. Oh, that's way nicer. Tehrander. Dude, Swedish words sound so nice. You can say some Swedish words, can you? Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | I think so. |
| 0:56.0 | Can we hear a couple? |
| 0:57.0 | One, just like. |
| 0:59.0 | Uh, orah. |
| 1:00.0 | Nice. |
| 1:01.0 | Nice. |
| 1:02.0 | Really nice pronunciation. |
| 1:03.0 | Little role, little role. |
| 1:04.0 | I was going to go in another one, but then I backed off, you know, because of our previous conversation. |
| 1:08.0 | I even went there and I had so many difficult conversations like, I'm trying to get to... Ah. Ah. It's A-R-E. Yeah. A-R-E. A-R-A-R-H. I want to go there. Just so... Do you know, that actually reminds me of... My mum and dad can both speak French. Yep. My mum speaks it with an accent. |
| 1:28.5 | My dad very much doesn't. |
| 1:30.2 | And it sounds awful. |
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