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STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® ATHLETES

All athletes taking part in TIMBERSPORTS® events have attended a number of training camps, and have demonstrated that they can perform the required disciplines safely. The contests require the competitors to use every ounce of strength, precision, technique, and nerve if they want to be in with a chance of winning titles.

More information about all German and international competitors can be found in our database.

Brad De Losa (left) and Stirling Hart at the 2017 Champions Trophy final in Hamburg

STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® ATHLETES

Only the world’s best competitive lumberjacks compete in the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Series. All athletes taking part in TIMBERSPORTS® events have attended a number of training camps, and have demonstrated that they can perform the required disciplines safely. Europe currently has around 500 athletes attending training camps and taking part in STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Series events; the figure worldwide is around 2,000. Many of the overseas competitors come from a long line of lumberjacks who have been devotees of the sport for generations.

Single Buck discipline at the TIMBERSPORTS® Rookie World Championship

Athletes aged 25 and under have “rookie” status and may take part in junior contests. From the age of 26 they are classed as “intermediates” until they safely master all six disciplines; once that’s achieved, a competitor qualifies to enter national championships and is considered an active “pro”.

Competitors at the Individual World Championships in 2018 ranged in age from 23-year-old Canadian Nathan Cumberland, to nine-time world champion Jason Wynyard from New Zealand, was the oldest athlete at 45.The reigning world champion from 2019, Brayden Meyer from Australia, is 24 years old.

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Top-ranked competitors in Germany

The top-ranked competitors in Germany are Danny Martin, Robert Ebner, and Dirk Braun.

Danny Martin has been an elite domestic athlete for years: he has been a consistent member of the German World Championship squad since 2012 and he won his first German title in 2019,

dethroning six-time national champion Robert Ebner. Ebner was also runner-up at the 2010 STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship.

Dirk Braun has not won a national title since 2016, but is nonetheless considered a living legend. Braun is a German record holder with eight titles under his belt; he holds national records in five of the six STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® disciplines, and is a world record holder in the Hot Saw event for racing chainsaws.

Dirk Braun in the Standing Block Chop STS discipline

But it is not only male athletes who are bringing TIMBERSPORTS® world records home to Germany, as Nadine Münzenmaier can attest.In 2019, she set an incredible time of 10.49 seconds in the Stock Saw discipline, smashing the previous women’s world record. At the 2019 German Championship she was beaten into third place by two of her rivals,

one of whom was Alrun Uebing.A TIMBERSPORTS® athlete since 2017, Uebing has quickly won her stripes,with six podium finishes to date – though she hasn’t managed to get the big win.

Nina Pokoyski is the reason for that:with more than ten years of experience in the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® series, Pokoyski is the longest-serving active athlete. She secured her first national title at the German Championship in 2019, edging out Alrun Uebing by just a single point.

Yolanda Hagmann and Svenja Bauer celebrate victory at STIHL TIMBERSPORTS®

More information about all German and international competitors can be found in our database.