The country’s top axeman, Jack Jordan, is also a triple world-title holder but there’s one title he’s chasing this week that’s so far eluded his swing – the World Championship.

Jordan achieved the sport’s first-ever three-peat last year in winning the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Trophy – held annually in Europe and described as the 20/20 cricket of international wood chopping. It’s a quick fire event with four disciplines back to back (no rest in between) suited to competitors with superior fitness and endurance as they make their way through knockout stages to the final showdown.

But this weekend Jordan is back in Europe in Toulouse, France trying to knock off the elusive STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship - the more traditional, long-form format across six different wood-chopping and sawing disciplines.