Stirling Hart
{{Short description|Canadian professional lumberjack}}
Stirling Hart (born June 2, 1989, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional lumberjack.
Hart is a record holder and a World record holder in tree climbing and Springboard chop. He was the 2018 winner of the STIHL Timbersport Champions trophy.{{cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canadian-stirling-hart-wins-stihl-timbersports-champions-trophy-in-marseille-france-683852301.html|title=Canadian Stirling Hart Wins STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Champions Trophy in Marseille, France|website=www.newswire.ca}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-lumberjack-powers-to-world-title-1.4680744|title=Vancouver lumberjack powers to world title|last=Larsen|first=Karin|date=May 28, 2018|work=CBC News}}
Tree climbing
Hart claimed his first world record as a tree climber in 2010, racing up and down a 100' tree in 23.3 seconds.http://www.meadowridgehometownheroes.ca/images/Posters/stirling.hart.pdf {{Dead link|date=March 2022}} In 2013 his World record for the 90’ climb was 18.30https://lumberjackworldchampionships.com/pdf/Current-World-Records-2018-5.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} and his World record for the 80’ climb was 17.81 seconds.
Racing axe
In 2014 Hart switched to racing axe competition. In his first STIHL Canadian Championship {{Cite news|url=https://www.mapleridgenews.com/sports/hart-wins-timbersports-title/amp/|title=Hart wins Timbersports title|date=June 25, 2014|work=Maple Ridge New}} he finished second in Toronto, Ontario. It was followed with a silver medal win for team Canada in Innsbruck, Austria.{{cite web|url=https://en.stihl.ca/stirling-hart.aspx|title=Stirling Hart|website=STIHL}}
In 2017 Hart won his first World Record title as an axemen in the Springboard competition with a time of 35.67 seconds at the Stihl Timbersports Series World Championship in Stuttgart, Germany.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/more/stirling-harts-world-record-springboard-chop/|title=Stirling Hart's World Record Springboard Chop|date=October 8, 2017|website=SN News (Sports Net)}} Later that year in Hamburg, Germany, at the World's Champions Trophy where the athletes compete in a 4-event, back-to-back and head-to-head competition consisting of Stock Saw, Underhand Chop, Single Buck and Standing Block Chop, Hart lost to Brad De Losa by 0.48 seconds, receiving the silver medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/stihl-timbersports-champions-trophy-2017-in-hamburg-australias-brad-de-losa-wins-the-worlds-toughest-logger-sports-competition-623451774.html|title=STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® Champions Trophy 2017 in Hamburg: Australia's Brad De Losa Wins the World's Toughest Logger Sports Competition|last=Borghorst|first=Christopher|date=May 21, 2017|website=Newswire}}
In May 2018 Hart won the STIHL Timbersport Champions Trophy in Marseilles, France in a time of 1.03.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4727633|title=2018 Timbersports champion Stirling Hart brings win to Canada|date=July 1, 2018|website=CBC News}}{{Cite web|url=https://en.stihl.ca/canadian-stirling-hart-wins-world-championship.aspx|title=Canadian Stirling Hart Wins Champions Trophy in Marseille|last=Rozo|first=Gerry|date=May 26, 2018|website=Stihl Timbersports}}
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