Jason Wynyard

Jason Wynyard MNZM is a champion woodchopper from New Zealand who has won over a hundred world titles in the sport.

Wynyard in 2017
At the Lumberjack World Championship in 2011

Wynyard has won the individual world championship nine times.[1][2] He holds the world record for Single Buck (with assistant) with a time of 9.39 in 2007.[3]

Wynyard won the Stihl Timbersports Series 14 times. He won the title in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

In the 2017 New Year Honours, Wynyard was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the sport of wood chopping.[4]

Wynyard is the father of former Kentucky University men's basketball player Tai Wynyard.[5]

References
  1. Hutching, Gerard (7 November 2017). "Kiwi Jason Wynyard best in world at chopping, sawing timber". Stuff. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  2. "Jason WYNYARD - STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Database". data.stihl-timbersports.com. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  3. "Records - STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Database". data.stihl-timbersports.com. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  4. "New Year honours list 2017". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. Medcalf, Myron (1 February 2017). "'The Michael Jordan of lumberjacks' motivates his son, a Kentucky reserve". ESPN.com. Retrieved 31 December 2020.


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