Martha King of Chadds Ford won her first All-Around Lumberjill title during this year’s Lumberjack World Championships at the 60^th annual Lumberjack Bowl in Hayward, Wisconsin, writes Terrell Boettcher for Blue Mountain Eagle.

A 2016 Philadelphia Inquirer article by Dan Geringer described King as one of a small group of lumberjills who chop, saw, and chain-saw at rural, male-dominated lumberjack competitions.

“It’s not much of a girls’ sport,” King said in the Inquirer article. “So I put pressure on myself. I’m a woman, I’m strong, and I’m doing something that I love. I want to see if I can be a world champion. I want to see if I can set world records.”

The three-day international competition Aug. 1 to 3 showcased the best sawing, chopping, speed climbing, log rolling, boom-running and more.

One new world record was set at the three-day event, as Charlie Fenton from Waupaca claimed his fourth men’s boom running title in a record time of 13.09 seconds in Saturday’s finals.

Boom running involves running over a series of logs placed in the water , without falling in, competing against a second runner for the fastest time possible.

Read more about King and the Lumberjack Bowl here.

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