Stirling Hart (born June 2, 1989, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional

lumberjack Lumberjacks are mostly North American workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to loggers in the era (before 1945 in the Unite ...

. 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.

Tree climbing

Hart claimed his first world record as a tree climber in 2010, racing up and down a 100' tree in 23.3 seconds.http://www.meadowridgehometownheroes.ca/images/Posters/stirling.hart.pdf In 2013 his World record for the 90’ climb was 18.30 and his World record for the 80’ climb was 17.81 seconds.

Racing axe

In 2014 Hart switched to racing axe competition. In his first STIHL Canadian Championship he finished second in Toronto, Ontario. It was followed with a silver medal win for team Canada in Innsbruck, Austria. 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 The Stihl Timbersports Series is a series of woodsman or wood chopping competitions where the athletes compete in the use of axes and saws in manners typical for lumberjacks. It was founded in 1985, and currently includes six different disciplines, ...

World Championship in Stuttgart, Germany. Later that year in

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, 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

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by 0.48 seconds, receiving the silver medal. In May 2018 Hart won the STIHL Timbersport Champions Trophy in Marseilles, France in a time of 1.03.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Stirling 1989 births Living people Lumberjack sports players People from Maple Ridge, British Columbia Sportspeople from British Columbia