Ferry Svan

Ferry Svan (born 2 October 1996) is a Swedish professional woodchopper and logging sportsman, and the son of champion skier Gunde Svan. He is the first Swedish person to compete in a World Championship in logging sports, the first Swede to win a World Championship, and the youngest person to compete in logging sports as a Senior athlete. He has previously held four Swedish national records. He competes in the Stihl Timbersports Series. He participated as a celebrity dancer in Let's Dance 2025 broadcast on TV4.

Logging sports Junior career Svan was introduced to woodchopping as a sport when he was in high school, he had also spent time working on his father's "farm" — tending to 1000 hectares of forest — before he began it as a sport. In 2014 he went to his first Nordic games for logging sports, where he took gold as a junior, repeating this feat in 2016. It was at this point that Svan took up logging full-time, returning to his parents' farm to train. He said that full-time training is hard, but pays off, and that doing it alone he spends more time preparing his timber than he does actually practising chopping. His aim for 2017 was to become a professional logging athlete; though the sport has about 500 "active athletes" regularly competing, only a few of these can actually make money from it. He explained his reason for moving home was mostly financial, but did add that his father has good experience in training regimens that would be helpful. He also expressed an interest in attending training camps around the world to learn from pros.

In 2017 he qualified for the World Junior Championship, which was held in Hamburg, Germany. also becoming the first Swede to win a World Championship. Before the competition, he had said he was hoping to place in the top 5.

In summer 2017 he again competed in the Nordic championship, now as a senior, and placed second. He was the youngest person to ever compete in the sport as a senior. but also was able to take an automatic wild card spot because of his World Championship title. The Champions Trophy competition, held in Marseille, France, was in late May 2018, 6–7 weeks later. However, he still managed to compete. At this competition he also became the youngest person to compete as a senior in an international competition.

In the first round of the Champions Trophy, Svan competed against Andrea Rossi, who ended up disqualified. In the quarterfinals, he competed against Martin Komarek, who beat his time, with Svan ultimately placing eighth. In each stage of this competition, he broke his own personal best. in the heat he lost, he attained what was a new Swedish national record.

Svan's performance at the 2019 Timbersports Champions Trophy competition, in Kungsbacka, saw him set a new personal best, but missing out on his target of a top-5 placement, losing to Michal Dubicki in the quarter finals.

Competitions

Statistics As of December 2019, Svan's statistics are: