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New Shearing Record Holder Has Been Stacking Up The Numbers Since The Age Iof Seven
Tuesday, 19 September 2023, 12:40 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australian shearer Ethan Harder has set the pace for a new World records season by adding 20 to a merino lambs record set less than a year ago. From Bruce rock in inland West Australia,Harder put together the experience of more than a decade of ... More >>
National Shearing Circuit - A "cool" Competition To Be In
Friday, 1 September 2023, 10:36 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Entries are now open for the 2023-2024 PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit. The series incorporates the McSkimming Memorial Triple Crown which was first presented after a three-round series in 1972-1973, starting at the New Zealand Merino Shearing ... More >>
New Zealand Shearers Shape-up For Big Match At Royal Welsh Show
Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 10:17 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Wools of New Zealand Shearing Sports New Zealand team is closing in on the last stages of its 2023 UK tour with hopes of scoring its first win in the last two tests against Wales. Brothers-in-law Paerata Abraham and David Gordon, of Masterton, were ... More >>
Women In Four Shearing Record Bids
Wednesday, 19 July 2023, 4:09 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Champion King Country shearer Catherine Mullooly is turning her focus to a challenge for a World Record. According to an application received by the World Sheep Shearing Records Society, Mullooly is targeting the solo women’s eight-hours strongwool ... More >>
A Kiwi Family Affair At Lochearnhead Shears
Monday, 3 July 2023, 4:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A small loch-side village became not only a test-match venue but also a Wairarapa of the north as the Wools of New Zealand Shearing Sports New Zealand team and supporters invaded the Lochearnhead Shears in Scotland on Saturday. While it didn’t bring ... More >>
New Zealand Misses Out On Shears Champs Silverware
Monday, 26 June 2023, 5:50 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
History has been made at the Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Scotland with New Zealand failing to win a single title for the first time in the 19 events since the first championships in 1977. In a day of stunning reversals, ... More >>
A New Zealand Resident From Germany Flies The Flag For Downunder
Friday, 23 June 2023, 10:58 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
South Island-based German shearer Robin Krause got her four days at the 2023 golden shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships off to a good start with a first-day finals placing in the Royal Highland Show Junior Championship today. ... More >>
Shears Excitement As World Champs Start In Scotland
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 5:08 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At least 18 New Zealand competitors will be in action in open-entry events kicking-off the four-day 2023 Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships starting today at the Royal Highland Show in Scotland. Taking part in the show’s annual ... More >>
World Shears Champs In Masterton In 2026
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 10:30 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand will hold the 20th Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships at the home of Golden Shears in Masterton in 2026. Confirmation came at the Golden Shears World Council meeting in Edinburgh on the eve of the 2023 championships at ... More >>
New Zealand To Defend Proud Record At World Shears Champs
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 12:04 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The Wools of New New Zealand Shearing Sports New Zealand team will be defending a proud Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling record when this year’s championships take place at the Royal Highland Show in Scotland this week. There are 29 countries ... More >>
Of Course Shearing Is A Sport!
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 4:44 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
The 2023 Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Scotland this week seem certain to reignite a regular debate about whether shearing and woolhandling competition should be an Olympic Games sport. But it’s an open question for Wools ... More >>
Champions' Shakedown Before World Shears
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 8:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearer Rowland Smith has had a confidence-boosting win over reigning World champion Welsh shearer Richard Jones in the last competition before the 2023 Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships. The win came on Sunday ... More >>
Kiwi Shears Guns On Show Before World Champs
Sunday, 11 June 2023, 9:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
New Zealand shearers Rowland Smith and Leon Samuels have made a spectacular start to their preparations in the UK for next week’s Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhamdling Championships in Scotland. They were first and third respectively in ... More >>
NZ Shearers' Back-breaking Day Of Records In WA Woolshed
Sunday, 23 April 2023, 5:26 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Australia-based Taumarunui shearers and brothers Floyde Neil (left) and Levi Neil (right) pictured during their record-breaking day on Saturday at Rockliffe, about 280km south-southeast of Perth. Photo / Taesa Brown. The back wasn’t the best, ... More >>
Record Bid On Saturday For Kiwi Bros In West Australia
Friday, 21 April 2023, 6:59 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Taumarunui brothers and shearers Floyde (left) and Levi Neil in the Rockliffe woolshed south of Kojonup on Friday, ahead of the Saturday 5am start of their World merino ewes record bid. Photo / Supplied A New Zealand shearer tackling a World ... More >>
Samuels Wraps-up Season With Lambs Win - Next Stop, Scotland
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 10:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Southland shearer Leon Samuels capped his biggest season with victory in the national lambshearing championships Open final at the Mackenzie Shears in Fairlie on Monday. The win in the last event of the 2022-2023 Shearing Sports New Zealand season, by ... More >>
RESULTS from the NZ Shears shearing & woolhandling championships at Te Kuiti on Thursday-Saturday, March 30-April 1
Sunday, 2 April 2023, 4:06 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Shearing: Wools of New Zealand Series (20 sheep): New Zealand (Rowland Smith 16min 6.41sec, 57.171pts, 1; Leon Samuels 15min 39.77sec, 57.239pts) 114.41pts beat Wales Development Gethin Lewis 15min 40.65sec, 61.283pts; Dylan Jones 16min 20.47sec, 67.474pts) ... More >>
Big win for Gore shearer Emma Martin at Shears champs in Te Kuiti
Friday, 31 March 2023, 7:01 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
A Southland shearer today became the first female to win the New Zealand Shears Junior shearing championship in Te Kuiti in 13 years since what has become one of the more memorable of Junior shearing wins – because of who won it. The 27-year-old ... More >>
Woolhandlers Take The Honours On First Day Of New Zealand Shears
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 9:53 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Two woolhandlers from different ends of the competition spectrum claimed the first titles at the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti today(Thursday). Cat Christey, who calls herself a general hand who does-all sorts on a farm near Waitomo, has barely competed ... More >>
Women's Shears Event Attracts 15
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 2:13 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
At least 15 shearers from across the competition grades of Open to Junior will contest the women’s shearing event at the New Zealand Shears which open in Te Kuiti tomorrow(Thursday) and end on Saturday. But while the field comprises most of those who have shorn successfully ... More >>
