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World’s top loggers are coming to Estonia with the intention to win
The World Logging Championships take place in Tartu during the Rural Fair from 19–22 April. The
best loggers from 22 countries will compete for the title.
The guests travelling the longest way to the championships in Tartu is the team of Japan. The closest
teams are our neighbours from Finland and Latvia. The teams are primarily from Europe’s most
forest-rich countries with decades-long traditions in forestry, professional skills and competitions.
The world championships bring the world’s top loggers to Estonia. In the run-up to the
championships, we asked some of them about their thoughts and expectations.
The current world champion Marco Trabert, representing Germany, says his hopes are high – his goal
is to finish in the top ten. Trabert has a good opportunity to achieve that: at the last World Logging
Championships in Norway in 2018, he set a record, scoring a total of 1678 points in five events. “No
one had ever won the world championships with such a high score, and I also hold the world record
in limbing,” Trabert described his biggest achievements so far.
Ole Harald Løvenskiold Kveseth from Norway currently holds the second place in the world in
logging. He hopes to see a world record also in Estonia, for example, in replacing the saw chain.
Kveseth has a personal connection to this discipline, having set the world record in fitting another
chain in 2010. What he is most proud of, however, is the result he achieved in limbing in front of his
home crowd at the last world championships in Norway. “Considering the pressure and the
atmosphere there, it was a result I am really satisfied with. Although I lost one second trying to fix a
higher knot,” Kveseth says.
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