{"id":493623,"date":"2025-10-12T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493623\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:04:21","slug":"three-from-powys-to-represent-team-gb-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493623\/","title":{"rendered":"Three from Powys to represent Team GB at world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Rachel Ferrington, from Hay-on-Wye, will be the first woman to represent Team GB in the event, which takes place later this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She will compete alongside Glen Penlington from Knighton and Rowan Luxton from Llandrindod Wells, both of whom have secured their spots in the six-strong British team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The championship will be held at the Allianz Cloud Arena in Milan on October 24 and 25.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The team will face off against the world&#8217;s best in the sport&#8217;s elite team competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event features four demanding disciplines: the Stock Saw, Underhand Chop, Single Buck, and Standing Block Chop, all in a fast-paced relay format.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rachel&#8217;s selection follows a record-breaking season on the British stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Martin Lewis advice to mobile phone users &#8216;everybody do this now&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ombudsman has nine separate investigations into conduct of Powys councillors<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Powys council launches &#8216;easy&#8217; recruitment process for HGV drivers<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She set a new Women&#8217;s World Record in the Stock Saw, cutting two perfect discs in just 8.82 seconds, the fastest time of the entire British Championship weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Four-time British Champion Glen Penlington earned automatic qualification after dominating the domestic season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rookie athlete Rowan Luxton impressed with his precision and composure in the British Rookie Championship, securing his first national title.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The trio have been training together through a series of intensive national camps, honing their teamwork.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They aim to help Great Britain improve on last year\u2019s 13th-place finish.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The full competition can be watched live on the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS YouTube channel from 7pm on Friday, October 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Ferrington, from Hay-on-Wye, will be the first woman to represent Team GB in the event, which takes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-493623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115361341025493659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}