Jason Wynyard
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Sad to recieve the news of the passing of NZ Axeman and wood chopping legend Jason Wynyard who passed away peacefully this morning
My brother inlaw Pouri was the captain of the NZ Axemans team and Jason and his ex wife Karmyn were also very much part of the extended woodchopping whānau
A legend in the world of wood chopping ,he won 14 World Stihl Timbersports title between 1997 and 2017
100 World titles which is out the gate
Jason Wynyard MNZM
Me ōku whakaaro ki te whānau me ehoa me i tēnei wa pouri
Moe mai ra e rangatira 🙏🏼 -
RIP.
I used to enjoy watching the woodchopping on TVNZ back in the 1980s, it would have been Jason's Dad then though that I remember watching. Once a year televised at the Royal Easter show, I think.
The sport's visibility a victim of the sad decline of TVNZ in the 1990s when they totally gave up on everything sport once Sky got the rugby. The Ashely Forest Rally Sprint would be similar thing, not something I'd want to watch every week, but once a year. The sorts of thing TVNZ should have kept going as a 'cultural heritage', but ..... that wasn't their remit.
