Jason Wynyard holds three gold medals in the Men's Endurance event at ESPN's Great Outdoor Games. However, two years ago, it was his brother-in-law, Dion Lane, who gave him his only semifinal defeat in the event.
Taylor's Endurance earns win
Over the past two years, the Women's Endurance title has passed back and forth between Peg Engasser and Sheree Taylor. The cycle continued this year, when the two faced each other in the gold medal round of the hotly contested event.
Mens' Endurance: All in the family gold?
The possibilities are endless in the Men's Endurance race for gold at the Great Outdoor Games. It could be an all American final or an all in the family feud. And if an American even makes the final, then that will be the big story.
Women's Endurance: Familiar foes in final
No matter how you stack it, a win is a win. And that's how it went for Peg Engasser at the Women's Endurance semifinals of the ESPN Great Outdoor Games.
Endurance pays off for Wynyard
Jason Wynyard of Auckland, New Zealand, took on 16 other lumberjacks in the Men's Endurance competition at the Great Outdoor Games in and is bringing the gold home Down Under.
Taylor has edge in Endurance
Sheree Taylor didn't know if she would be able to make the trip from New Zealand for the ESPN Great Outdoor Games because of her mother's lingering illness. Taylor did, though, and won the Women's Timber Endurance event.
Top seeds advance to Women's Endurance finals
A penalty cost Erin LaVoie a shot at a gold medal and put the top-seeded Women's Endurance timber specialists in Friday's championship at Willow Island at the Alliant Energy Center.
Athlete log, Peg Engasser
July 17, 2004 — Great Outdoor Games V is history, and I am proud to say that I brought home a silver medal in the Women's Endurance, and a Bronze in the Team Relay!
Wynyard finds redemption's golden in Men's Endurance
There was plenty of redemption floating around the Men's Endurance. At the top of the list is Jason Wynyard. Wynyard owned the event for the first two years. After loaning it out for a year, the gold is back in its rightful place.
Engasser's golden Endurance
Clutching her gold medal from the Women's Endurance at the 2003 ESPN Great Outdoor Games Friday, Peg Engasser did a quick time zone calculation and her broad smile grew even wider.
Surprise in Women's Endurance
Almost as significant as who will be in Friday's finals of the Women's Endurance is who won't be in the finals. Sheree Taylor, the two-time gold medallist from New Zealand, made a stunning exit.
Arden Cogar: Felled by a chip
In the world of lumberjacks, chips happen. Whether in a pile of sawdust or flying from an ax-hammered log, chips fly and land in all sorts of places. At least one of those has made a major mark on the timber competitions in the last year.
McKinnis: Mel Lentz, hero
I have a confession: I'm a sports junkie. I have been all my life, keeping track of all the scores, the rules and, most of all, the players. Like most sport junkies I have heroes.
Hughes: Bush league
Jason Wynyard, of New Zealand and two time champion of the Men’s Endurance event, had just lost, in the semi final round, to his brother-in-law, Dion Lane, also of New Zealand, in the most awaited match-up of the Men’s Endurance Event.
Matijevich: Bush sneaks in for Gold
My favorite Great Outdoor Games moment is the 2002 Men’s Endurance competition. In three out of the last four years, the same four competitors made the top four: Jason Wynyard, David Bolstad, Matt Bush and Dion Lane (Dion finished 6th in 2000).
Stihl TimberSport Series, Oshkosh wrap-up
Jason Wynyard is back on top of the lumberjack world
Stihl TimberSports Championship wrap-up
Wynyard takes the title… but not the way he anticipated
