Hot Saw Redemption Wins First Ever World Championship For Jordan

The country’s top axeman, Jack Jordan, has just won the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship individual event in Milan, Italy (Sunday morning NZ time) for the first time.

Jordan went one better than his frustratingly close second place finish at last year’s event.

In the 12-strong field, Jordan was jostling for the top spot in a battle for first and second with legendary Australian Brayden Meyer right up until the last of six disciplines, the volatile Hot Saw (super-powered chainsaw).

It was a Hot Saw hiccup that cost Jordan the title last year – but this time, under immense pressure, he calmed his nerves and the high-powered machine to perform a personal best time (6.30 seconds) on the saw and win his first individual world championship crown.

“It was tough all day – a dog fight all day. But I knew it was going to be. And leading up to this competition I didn’t train too much on the chopping events, I just focussed on my weaker events and they were the three events that I won today, so really happy that the targeted training paid off and yeah, came away with the gold!” says Jordan.

It was the 28 year-old King Country farmer’s third appearance at an individual World Championship - the more traditional, long-form format across six different wood-chopping and sawing disciplines. Jordan has already won the faster-format STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Trophy competition (knock-out format over four disciplines) three consecutive times.

Jordan joins the sports illustrious company of Jason Wynyard and David Bolstad as the only other Kiwi to ever win the coveted Timbersports World Championship individual title.

Jordan finished the competition just four points ahead of Meyer with Poland’s Szymon Groenwald third.

Jordan earned the right to be the sole New Zealand representative in the individual competition at these World Championships after he topped a 10-strong field at the NZ National STIHL Timbersports finals in March this year.

The New Zealand team (listed below) finished just out of the medals in 4th place in a 15-strong field at the same event a day before Jordan’s individual competition. Australia, Sweden and Poland finished 1st , 2nd and 3rd respectively, which was also a seventh consecutive team victory for the ‘Chopperoos’.

New Zealand last won the World Championship teams title in 2017.

The team event involves teams battling against each other in a knockout format across four disciplines: Stock Saw, Single Buck, Underhand Chop and Standing Block Chop.

NZ Stihl Timbersports World Championship Team 2025:

• Jack Jordan Taumarunui
• Cleveland Cherry Tokoroa
• Quintin Fawcett Masterton

Chris Lord Otorohanga

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