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Near sellout at World shears champs in Invercargill
Thursday, 9 February 2017, 4:00 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World shearing and woolhandling championships organisers have just announced a near sell-out of the last two nights on Fridayand Saturday in Invercargill. More >>
Shearing - Results
Thursday, 9 February 2017, 9:48 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
February 8, 2017 Results from the opening day second day programme for the World shearing and woolhandling championships being held at ILT Stadium Southland, Invercargill, NZ, on February 8-11, 2017: More >>
World Champs: More’s gone right than wrong
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 12:52 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The 40th anniversary World shearing and woolhandling championships start today in Invercargill with organising committee chairman and former champion shearer Tom Wilson balancing the odds firmly in the favour of success over the next four days. More >>
Kiwi World champs hope Oldfield wins blades title at Reefton
Monday, 6 February 2017, 7:42 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Kiwi World champs hope Oldfield wins blades title at Reefton Geraldine bladeshearer Phil Oldfield had an important win ahead of this week’s World shearing and woolhandling championships when he beat an international field to regain the Reefton Shears bladeshearing ... More >>
Kamura’s Marton double: Hey bartend, can yer shear as well?
Monday, 6 February 2017, 7:41 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Kamura’s Marton double: Hey bartend, can yer shear as well? Marton woolhandler, barman, now shearer Logan Kamura reckons Saturday was the best day of his life, with two winning ribbons at home-town show the Rangitikei Shearing Sports’ North Island ... More >>
World Shearing Champs
Saturday, 4 February 2017, 2:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
February 3, 2017 New national woolhandling representative Mary-Anne Baty has scored a confidence-boosting win at the Dannevirke A and P Show before heading south for a bid to win a World championship in Invercargill next week. More >>
Bladies cut a track for Reefton Shears
Friday, 3 February 2017, 9:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A mini unofficial World championship is in the offing for the Reefton Shears tomorrow (Saturday) as some of the best in the ancient craft of wool clipping sharpen the blades ahead of official event in Invercargill next week. More >>
War memorial hall becomes a shearing in world champs prelude
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 5:21 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Organisers of the Otago Shears which start tomorrow (Friday) are bringing in extra sheep to cope with increased entries in the final shakedown before next week’s World championships in Invercargill. More >>
New Zealand hopes start in World shears buildup
Sunday, 22 January 2017, 10:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand hopes start in World shears buildup New Zealand team members Nathan Stratford and Joel Henare starred in a big weekend of shearing sports in Southland at the weekend as the buildup started ahead of the World sheariong and woolhandling championships ... More >>
Shearing record smashed in Hawke’s Bay
Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 8:59 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three shearers gathered from around New Zealand have smashed a World record by 264 sheep despite the heat, the pumiced sheep of inland Hawke’s Bay and a year’s wool weighing an average of over 3.5kg a sheep. More >>
Shearing record is being smashed in hot Hawke’s Bay woolshed
Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 11:05 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Sheep shearers James Mack, Eru Weeds and Luke Mullins are heading towards adding up to 170 sheep to a World shearing record as they battle the tough conditions of heat and well-wooled pumiced sheep in a Hawke’s Bay woolshed. More >>
Shearing record on target
Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 9:13 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing record on target Shearing record hopefuls James Mack, from Waikato, Roxburgh shearer Eru Weeds and Luke Mullins, of Cambridge but from Taihape, are comfortably on track for a new World three-stand record after just two hours of the attempt in ... More >>
Welsh help break shearing record in New Zealand
Thursday, 12 January 2017, 9:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two Welshmen have today become the first from their country break a World shearing record in New Zealand. More >>
Welsh rare bid on shear record in NZ
Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 8:29 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two Welsh shearers and a Kiwi have this morning in a New Zealand woolshed begun a bid to break a World record that has stood for more than 18 years. More >>
Shearing record broken in King Country woolshed
Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 8:28 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A crowd packed into a King Country woolshed had to wait till the last moments of a 480-minutes day before seeing a World ewe-shearing record broken by just two sheep this afternoon. More >>
Green light for shearing record bid today
Tuesday, 10 January 2017, 8:32 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
World Sheep Shearing Records Society judges have given the green-light for an attempt by two shearers on an eight-hour strong wool ewes record in a King Country woolshed today. More >>
A tall order as shearing pair challenge ewes record
Sunday, 8 January 2017, 7:37 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A big week of shearing in the central North Island kicks-off on Tuesday (January 10) with an attack on a record set six years ago by Northland and Hawke’s Bay gun Rowland Smith on the road to becoming one of the World’s greatest shearers. More >>
Gearing-up for Peninsula Shears
Sunday, 8 January 2017, 7:29 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
With a World shearing championships in the South Island for the first time less than a month away Peninsula Shears organiser Phil Bremner faces a dilemma in not knowing how many more competitors he can expect for his show next Saturday (January ... More >>
Three shearing records in January
Sunday, 18 December 2016, 7:28 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Three World shearing records will be attempted within eight days in the Central North Island next month. More >>
Shearing Champs
Monday, 28 November 2016, 10:54 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Te Kuiti shearer Mark Grainger had a confidence-boosting pre-Christmas win when he downed former World and Golden Shears champion Gavin Mutch in the final of the Stratford A and P Show’s shearing championships yesterday. More >>
