David Kelvin Bolstad (12 May 1969 – 19 November 2011) was a New Zealand representative woodchopper. He was

Stihl Timbersports Series The Stihl Timbersports Series is a series of woodsman or wood chopping competitions where the athletes compete in the use of axes and saws in manners typical for lumberjacks. It was founded in 1985, and currently includes six different disciplin ...

champion five times between 2001 and 2008. His father Sonny Bolstad was also a New Zealand representative axeman. David Bolstad died suddenly in 2011 after winning a competition in the town of

Waiuku Waiuku is a rural town in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the Waiuku River, which is an estuary, estuarial arm of the Manukau Harbour, and lies on the isthmus of the Āwhitu Peninsula, which extends to th ...

.World champion axeman passes away
''TV3 News,'' 23 November 2011

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David Bolstad remembered
at stihltimbersports.us
David Kelvin Bolstad
NZ Herald obituary *Hartevelt, A.
Axeman David Bolstad dies suddenly
" ''Rotorua Daily Post'' 23 November 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2012. 1969 births 2011 deaths New Zealand woodchoppers People from Manawatū-Whanganui 20th-century New Zealand people 21st-century New Zealand people {{NewZealand-sport-bio-stub