Paul David Tierney will enter the fourth round of the Cinch Timed Event Championship with an 11.4-second lead on second-place Thomas Smith, giving the two-time champ momentum entering the final 10 head of the 2024 edition of the Lazy E event.

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Tierney, 34, won the event in 2014 and 2016. The Oklahoma City transplant, originally from Oral, South Dakota, has won $3,000 in go-round money so far, adding to the $284,500 he’s won in his 12 previous appearances. He’s 191.9 on 15 head.

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“I’ve overdone myself and tried to do too much the last few years,” Tierney said. “And this year I really told myself we’re backing it off and who cares? We win second, we win third, we win fourth. We are not going fast.”

Tierney has the Cinch Timed Event Championship record of 267.9 seconds on 25 head that he set in 2016—a bar that the strong cattle won’t allow anyone to reach in 2024.

Tierney’s brother Jess, another Cinch Timed Event Champion who’s won $192,500 in his career at the Ironman, won Round 3 outright with a time of 56.3 seconds on five head, worth $3,000. Jess is eighth in the average with a time of 240.6 on 15.

2024 Cinch Timed Event Championship Results

Round One Results

1. Clayton Hass, 55.7 seconds $3,000
2. Kolton Schmidt, 66 seconds $2,000
3. Dylan Hancock, 68.5 seconds $1,000
4. Thomas Smith, 69.5 seconds
5. Nelson Wyatt, 71.9 seconds
6. Paul David Tierney, 75.3 seconds
7. Russell Cardoza, 75.8 seconds
8. Blane Cox, 75.9 seconds
9. Erich Rogers, 80.5 seconds
10. Cody Doescher, 90.1 seconds
11. Billy Good, 91.3 seconds
12. Cade Rice, 96.7 seconds
13. Jess Tierney, 106.7 seconds
14. Roger Nonella, 110.2 seconds
15. Seth Hall, 110.4 seconds
16. Tyler Pearson, 110.6 seconds
17. Riley Wakefield, 119.1 seconds
18. Justin Thigpen, 120.5 seconds
19. Eli Lord, 125.3 seconds
20. K.C. Jones, 137.4 seconds
21. Colby Lovell, 137.8 seconds
22. Brushton Minton, 141.8 seconds
23. Jake Clay, 144 seconds
24. Marcus Theriot, 158.5 seconds
25. Cole Patterson, 160.3 seconds

Round Two Results (total on five head)

1. Cody Doescher, 57.7 seconds, $3,000
2. Paul David Tierney, 58.7 seconds, $2,000
3. Brushton Minton, 61.5 seconds, $1,000
4. Nelson Wyat, 66 seconds
5. Russell Cardoza, 70.4 seconds
6. Marcus Theriot, 71.1 seconds
7. Erich Rogers, 72 seconds
8. Thomas Smith, 72.8 seconds
9. Dylan Hancock, 73.6 seconds
10. Cole Patterson, 74.6 seconds
11. K.C. Jones, 75.8 seconds
12. Jess Tierney, 77.6 seconds
13. Tyler Pearson, 79.2 seconds
14. Blane Cox, 80.7 seconds
15. Cade Rice, 83.7 seconds 
16. Seth Hall, 112.5 seconds
17. Jake Clay, 113.9 seconds
18. Roger Nonella, 114.5 seconds
19. Billy Good, 114.7 seconds
20. Eli Lord, 116.5 seconds
21. Colby Lovell, 118.2 seconds
22. Justin Thigpen, 136.2 seconds
23. Clayton Hass, 146.2 seconds
24. Kolton Schmidt, 154.3 seconds
25. Riley Wakefield, 154.7 seconds

Contestants Not Advancing to Round 3

21. Eli Lord, 241.8 seconds
22. Colby Lovell, 256 seconds
23. Justin Thigpen, 256.7 seconds
24. Jake Clay, 257.9 seconds
25. Riley Wakefield, 273.8 seconds

Round Three Results (total on five head)

1. Jess Tierney, 56.3 seconds, $3,000
2. Erich Rogers, 57.1 seconds, $2,000
3. Paul David Tierney, 57.9 seconds, $1,000
4. Thomas Smith, 61 seconds
5. Marcus Theriot, 61.1 seconds
6. Blane Cox, 66.5 seconds
7. Nelson Wyatt, 73.8 seconds
8. Russell Cardoza, 74.2 seconds
9. Seth Hall, 74.8 seconds
10. Cody Doescher, 79.1 seconds
11. K.C. Jones, 94.7 seconds
12. Clayton Hass, 97.7 seconds
13. Roger Nonella, 105 seconds
14. Tyler Pearson, 105.2 seconds
15. Dylan Hancock, 108.7 seconds
16. Brushton Minton, 113.3 seconds
17. Billy Good, 116.1 seconds
18. Kolton Schmidt, 146.3 seconds
19. Cole Patterson, 156.5 seconds
20. Cade Rice, 192. 6 seconds

Aggregate After Round 3 (total on 15 head)

1. Paul David Tierney, 191.9 seconds
2. Thomas Smith, 203.4 seconds
3. Erich Rogers, 209.6 seconds
4. Nelson Wyatt, 211.7 seconds
5. Russell Cardoza 220.4 seconds
6. Blane Cox, 223.1 seconds
7. Cody Doescher, 226.9 seconds
8. Jess Tierney, 240.6 seconds 
9. Dylan Hancock, 250.8 seconds
10. Marcus Theriot, 290.7 seconds
11. Tyler Pearson, 295 seconds
12. Seth Hall, 297.7 seconds
13. Clayton Hass, 299.6 seconds 
14. K.C. Jones, 307.9 seconds
15. Brushton Minton, 316.6 seconds
16. Billy Good 322.1 seconds
17. Roger Nonella, 329.7 seconds
18. Kolton Schmidt, 366.6 seconds 
19. Cade Rice, 373 seconds
20. Cole Patterson, 391.5 seconds