Stirling Hart
Stirling Hart (born June 2, 1989, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional lumberjack.
Hart is a record holder and a World record holder in tree climbing and Springboard chop. He was the 2018 winner of the STIHL Timbersport Champions trophy.[1][2]
Tree climbing
[edit]Hart claimed his first world record as a tree climber in 2010, racing up and down a 100' tree in 23.3 seconds.[3] In 2013 his World record for the 90’ climb was 18.30[4] and his World record for the 80’ climb was 17.81 seconds.[3]
Racing axe
[edit]In 2014 Hart switched to racing axe competition. In his first STIHL Canadian Championship [3][5] he finished second in Toronto, Ontario. It was followed with a silver medal win for team Canada in Innsbruck, Austria.[6]
In 2017 Hart won his first World Record title as an axemen in the Springboard competition with a time of 35.67 seconds at the Stihl Timbersports Series World Championship in Stuttgart, Germany.[7] Later that year in Hamburg, Germany, at the World's Champions Trophy where the athletes compete in a 4-event, back-to-back and head-to-head competition consisting of Stock Saw, Underhand Chop, Single Buck and Standing Block Chop, Hart lost to Brad De Losa by 0.48 seconds, receiving the silver medal.[8]
In May 2018 Hart won the STIHL Timbersport Champions Trophy in Marseilles, France in a time of 1.03.[1][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Canadian Stirling Hart Wins STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Champions Trophy in Marseille, France". www.newswire.ca.
- ^ Larsen, Karin (May 28, 2018). "Vancouver lumberjack powers to world title". CBC News.
- ^ a b c http://www.meadowridgehometownheroes.ca/images/Posters/stirling.hart.pdf [dead link]
- ^ https://lumberjackworldchampionships.com/pdf/Current-World-Records-2018-5.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Hart wins Timbersports title". Maple Ridge New. June 25, 2014.
- ^ "Stirling Hart". STIHL.
- ^ "Stirling Hart's World Record Springboard Chop". SN News (Sports Net). October 8, 2017.
- ^ Borghorst, Christopher (May 21, 2017). "STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Champions Trophy 2017 in Hamburg: Australia's Brad De Losa Wins the World's Toughest Logger Sports Competition". Newswire.
- ^ "2018 Timbersports champion Stirling Hart brings win to Canada". CBC News. July 1, 2018.
- ^ Rozo, Gerry (May 26, 2018). "Canadian Stirling Hart Wins Champions Trophy in Marseille". Stihl Timbersports.