toulouse to welcome the globe’s best woodchoppers as STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship gears up for France debut
toulouse to welcome the globe’s best woodchoppers as STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship gears up for France debut
6th February 2024 – STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® is axe-cited to announce the dates for the 2024 TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship, which will see the season highlight contested in France for the first time. On Friday 8th and Saturday 9th November 2024, the world’s elite logger sports athletes will take to the stage at Toulouse’s famed Zénith Toulouse Metropole arena.
The TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship will showcase the finest athletes, as 120 woodchoppers from over 20 nations, battle across two days of adrenaline-fuelled axe-tion. The host city of Toulouse is widely recognised for its devoted sports fans and notoriously successful rugby club, Stade Toulousain; an enthusiastic crowd is anticipated to pack out the spectacular Zénith Toulouse Metropole arena for two of the most prestigious competitions in the TIMBERSPORTS® Series.
The 2024 Team World Championship will open an intense weekend of high-octane TIMBERSPORTS® action on Friday 8th November. The national teams will go head-to-head against each other in a knockout format with four athletes from each nation completing the renowned four TIMBERSPORTS® disciplines: Stock Saw, Single Buck, Underhand Chop and Standing Block Chop.
The 2024 Individual World Championship will take place on Saturday 9th November and see the world’s top 12 athletes stand to their timbers in all six TIMBERSPORTS® disciplines in a three-round elimination format. In each discipline, the competitors will accumulate points based on the time it takes them to slash through their blocks, with the lowest ranked athletes eliminated at the end of each round. After the three rounds, the athlete with the most points will be proclaimed the 2024 Individual World Champion.
