2024-03-06 12:58:39
France is hosting for the first time the Stihl Timbersports World Sports Logging Championships on November 8 and 9, 2024 at the Zénith Toulouse Métropole, which will bring together the 120 best sports lumberjacks in the world for team and individual events.
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For two days, more than 120 athletes from all over the world will make the pink city vibrate to the sounds chainsaws, axes and saws, under the watchful eye of the emblematic personalities of Stade Toulousain, official partner of these 2024 world championships in France. “ Sport logging is a discipline that clearly promotes the values of perseverance, team spirit, respect and conviviality; values also deeply rooted in the rugby culture in France and at Stade Toulousain », Explains Didier Lacroix, president of Stade Toulousain. “ These are the reasons why we are delighted to host these world championships on our land and to support the French sports loggers vying for the podium! »
This event is a unique opportunity to highlight the know-how of professional loggers that Stihl daily support, through competition as technical as it is entertaining
Organized since 2005 for individual events, and since 2010 for team events, these championships are the premier competition in sporting logging and bring together more than 13,000 spectators and hundreds of thousands of television viewers each year in France alone. Using techniques based on traditional logging methods, athletes compete in a series of extremely physically and technically demanding events, combining precision and speed, in the handling of saws, axes, and chainsaws.. More than 2,000 practitioners, divided into the Pro, Women and Rookie categories, promote this atypical, intense and spectacular sport every year.
During these 2 days of extreme competitions in Toulouse, the 120 best sports loggers in the world will come together for team and individual events.
The individual competition will bring together the 2024 national champions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States as well as the eight best national champions in Europe. In this format, athletes will compete in two events with chainsaws, three with axes, and one with saws. Classic ax events include the Springboard, Underhand Chop and Standing Block chop. As for the saw and chainsaw competitions, these are the Single Buck (all-purpose saw), the Stock Saw (stock chainsaw) and the Hot Saw (ultra powerful chainsaw with up to 80 horsepower, prepared especially for the competition).
The “team” format, in which the French team will participate among around twenty teams, is a competition during which the four athletes from the same team compete in relays during elimination duels. on four events: the Stock Saw, the Underhand Chop, the Single Buck and the Standing Block Chop.
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