STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® is an international extreme sports competition series. Its roots lie in Australia and New Zealand as well as in Canada and the United States. 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 chain saw) and Hot Saw (tuned, customized chain saw with up to 80 horsepower) are the sawing disciplines.
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Latest Events
Press Releases / Factsheet Pictures Pros Women Rookies Coming soon
Canada’s Andrea Hand made history by winning the first STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Women’s World Championship with a high-quality display, making two personal bests and a National Record in three of the four disciplines she contested.
New Zealand’s Jack Jordan sets another phenomenal world record winning a fourth consecutive STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Trophy in Budapest, Hungary.
International Events
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® has today revealed the axe-citing line-up of elite athletes for the 2026 World Trophy and the first ever Women’s World Championship, which touch down in Budapest, Hungary, on the weekend of 6th June.
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® is excited to announce a bumper schedule of national and international events for the 2026 season as ‘The Original Extreme Sport’ celebrates the return of the World Trophy and the introduction of the first ever Women’s World Championships.
The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® season 2025 ended with a new world champion, a record winner and several newcomers who quickly became crowd favourites and put the favourites under noticeable pressure. The international titles in competitive woodcutting went to athletes from New Zealand, Australia and Poland.
National Events
Press Releases / Factsheet Pictures Pros Women Rookies Coming soon
STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Pro Championship 2025 in Sarrebourg
Roaring chainsaws and flying axes kicked off a high-octane weekend at the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® 2025 U.S. Championships, a climactic celebration of the sport’s 40th anniversary season. Packed with fierce competition and history-making moments, the Championships saw Nate Hodges and Erin LaVoie successfully defend their national titles – each making history with world record-setting performances, with LaVoie setting two new marks and Hodges breaking one of the sport’s most elite records.