OTS - STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship 2017/Extreme sports athlete Jason Wynyard is world champion again - New Zealanders dethrone Australia in team competition
2017. November 06. 12:40
Lillehammer/Waiblingen, 6 November, 2017 (APA/OTS) - The STIHL
TIMBERSPORTS® world championship is over: On November 3 in the
Hákons Hall in Lillehammer New Zealand won the team world
championship ahead of Poland and Australia. On Saturday New
Zealand's Jason Wynyard successfully defended his title in the
single competition. More than 5,500 spectators followed the world
championship live in the arena. In 2018 Liverpool will host the
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship.
After 2012 Lillehammer again hosted the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS®
world championship. The best logger sports athletes of the world
battled in front of 5,500 spectators in the H?kons Hall in
top-class competitions. At the end of the electrifying single
competition Jason Wynyard from New Zealand secured his ninth world
championship title and relegated Australia's Brad De Losa and
Canada's Mitch Hewitt to second and third place. From the very
beginning, Wynyard showed a strong performance and fought his way
through the leading group. He took the lead by setting the day's
record in his showpiece discipline Single Buck. Wynyard took
advantage of his lead and didn't let go of it until the very end.
"The title means a great deal to me. At the end it all comes down
to the Hot Saw and here the smallest details matter", said Wynyard.
On Friday the New Zealanders took the title in the team
competition. The "Kiwis" led by Jason Wynyard defeated the Polish
team in the final and grabbed their fourth title. The big favourite
from Australia surprisingly lost against Poland in the semi-final,
because they received a time penalty due to an early start.
Meanwhile the Poles fought the competition of their lives causing a
major upset. The Australians defeated the Canadians in the small
final and finished third.
World Championship 2018 in Liverpool
In 2018 the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship will for the
first time take place in Liverpool, England. On October 19 and 20
the best athletes from across the globe will compete for the
Individual and Team titles.
About STIHL TIMBERSPORTS®
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® is an international extreme sports
competition series. Its roots lie in Canada, the United States,
Australia and New Zealand, where workers in the timber industry
would hold competitions to determine who was the fastest in a range
of wood chopping and sawing disciplines that closely simulated
their everyday work. These logging disciplines evolved with time
into a series of sporting disciplines that require tremendous
athleticism, strength, precision and power. Today the world's best
athletes compete in national and international events featuring
three axe disciplines and three sawing disciplines. Springboard,
Underhand Chop and Standing Block Chop are the classic axe
disciplines; Single Buck (single-man cross-cut saw), Stock Saw
(standard chainsaw) and Hot Saw (tuned, customized chainsaw with up
to 80 horsepower) are the sawing disciplines. For more information
visit: www.stihl-timbersports.com
Pictures: http://www.presseportal.de/pm/111314/3779131
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