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.

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