SO AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU AXED?

❱ More than 110 athletes from 10 countries including Sweden, Germany and the UK and seven states competed at the DoubleBit Axe Throwing World Championship.

❱ The prize money was €35,000, the biggest purse in double-bit axe-throwing history.

❱ The axe-throwing industry has a total revenue of €208m.

❱ The world record for the furthest axe throw was broken in July by an Alaskan native, who threw 27 metres.

❱ One of the oldest tools used by mankind, the axe was created in the Stone Age around 30,000BC and copper blade axes appeared in Egypt around 4,000BC.

❱ The first axe throwing competitions were held by frontiersmen in North America and among Celtic tribes.