Timbersport Rookie World Championship 2026

What: Stihl Timbersports Rookie World Championship

When: Friday 5th June 2026

Where: Városligeti Műjégpálya (City Park) Budapest, Hungary

Full results:
1. Mathew Gower, New Zealand (66 points)
2. Awatea Moore Barrett, Australia (59 points)
3. Kamiel Van Raemdonck, Belgium (48 points)
4. Daniel Miner, USA (46 points)
5. Antoine Estelon, France (34 points)
6. Adam Urban, Hungary (32 points)
7. Jeffrey Hubscher, Switzerland (24 points)
8. Miroslav Vetrovec, Czech Republic (22 points)
9. Rowan Luxton, Great Britain (9 points)
10. Matthew Budd, Canada (8 points)
11. Simon Oberzaucher, Austria (8 points)
12. Mikolaj Groenwald, Poland (7 points)

Stihl Timbersports is an international extreme sports competition series. Its roots lie in Australia and New Zealand as well as in Canada and the United States. Today the world’s best athletes compete in national and international events featuring three axe disciplines and three sawing disciplines. Springboard, Underhand Chop and Standing Block Chop are the classic axe disciplines; Single Buck (single-man cross-cut saw), Stock Saw (standard chain saw) and Hot Saw (tuned, customized chain saw with up to 80 horsepower) are the sawing disciplines. Athletes compete against each other and the clock. 

INFO: Stihl Timbersports