Tasmania’s best timbersport athletes battled it out at the Australian Champions Trophy in a thrilling knockout competition that set Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter alight.
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Leading the state charge in the battle to chop and saw through four blocks of wood in the one-man relay format was Kody Steers, of Sheffield, who followed up his second place in the 2017 event at Agfest by finishing fifth.
Queenslander Mitch Argent took the title and will compete for the world champions trophy on May 26 in Marseille.
Daniel Gurr, 21, of Deloraine, finished tenth in his first timbersports competition but will also compete in France in the rookie world championship having qualified by winning the Australian championship last year and will be one of the favourites to win the title.
Daniel’s father Matthew, 52, showed he’s still one of the best athletes in the series making it to the quarter-finals to place seventh.
Hundreds of sports fans packed out Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter to catch all of the action across four of the disciplines one after the other.
