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Shearing Sports New Zealand looks forward to the new competition season which starts with the New Zealand Merino Championships at Alexandra on October 1-2. About 60 competitions will be staged throughout the country through to the end of the season in April 2011, during which many of the Worlds top shearers and woolhandlers will be seen in action, including New Zealand's new World Champions, listed below. We congratulate the following winners at the 14th Golden Shears World Championships, held in Wales in July.
| MACHINE SHEARING: | Individual: Cam ferguson (New Zealand)
Teams: New Zealand (Cam Ferguson/David Fagan) |
| WOOLHANDLING: | Individual: Bronwen Tango (Wales)
Teams: New Zealand (Sheree Alabaster/Keryn Herbert) |
| BLADES SHEARING: | Individual: Elliot Ntsombo (Lesotho)
Teams: South Africa (Mayenzeke Shweni/Bangani Joel) |
Events for this Month:
Media Releases:
- Kiwis crush Welsh in shears tour swansong - July 26, 2010
- The New Zealand shearing and woolhandling team has ended its World Championships tour in the UK with a cleansweep of the six major events at the Corwen Shears in North East Wales during the weekend.
- Kiwi young guns miss-out on shears finale - July 23, 2010
- The black singlet slipped quietly out of the limelight on the last day of the Royal Welsh Show as two of the supporting events to the World shearing and woolhandling championships were left to the locals.
- Young Kiwi shearers tackle Welsh show cleansweep - July 23, 2010
- A number of young New Zealand shearers have started a successful bid to complete a Kiwi cleansweep of machine shearing titles at the Royal Welsh Show where their older idols won three of the six titles in the World shearing and woolhandling championships yesterday.
- Kiwi wins shears test - July 23, 2010
- The World champion new Zealand shearing team has this morning sewn-up another test series against Wales, going up 3-0 with one test to go.
- Fagan beaten by teammate as Kiwis skim the gold at World Shears - July 22, 2010
- Waipawa shearer Cam Ferguson culminated one of the most dramatic rises to stardom in sheep shearing when he beat hot-favourite and New Zealand teammate David Fagan to win the World individual machines title in Wales early today.
- Golden Shears World Champs Results - July 22, 2010
- RESULTS from the 14th Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships which ended today at the Royal Welsh Show at Llanelwedd, Buith Wells, in Mid-Wales.
- Kiwis Win - July 22, 2010
- New Zealand has won three of the six titles in a dramatic end to the 14th Golden shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Wales this morning.
The triumph included the dramatic machine shearing win by Hawke's bay gun Cam Ferguson over favourite, teammate and shearing icon David Fagan, who was runner-up.
The pair also won the teams title, and the woolhandling teams title to Taihape schoolteacher Sheree Alabaster and Te Awamutu mum Herbert, and only the defeat of Alabaster by Welsh classer Bronwen Tango in the woolhandling individual final stopped the Kiwis repeating a machine shearing and woolhandling cleansweep achieved in Norway in October 2008.
The Kiwis completed podium finishes with blades shearers Brian Thomson and Allen Gemmell third in their teams event won, and Thomson repeating the result in the individual blades final.
- World woolhandling championships - July 22, 2010
- Reigning World woolhandling champion Sheree Alabaster, of Taihape, has reached the final of this year's championships to be held at the Royal Welsh Show later this morning NZT.
Alabaster qualified along with Welsh hopes Bronwen Tango and Menir Evans after the semi-finals a short time ago. Earlier, teammate Keryn Herbert, of Te Awamutu, failed to reach the semi-final.
Nevertheless, New Zealanders will be contesting all six finals, hoping to emulate the feat of a cleansweep of the teams and individual machine shearing and woolhandling titles achieved in Norway in October 2008. New Zealand is also represented in the blades shearing finals.
- World woolhandling championships - July 22, 2010
- New Zealander Keryn Herbert was a surprise elimination from the World woolhandling championships in Wales when the six semi-finalists were named a short while ago.
Herbert had been confident of making the cut after finishing fifth in the first round and seventh in the second, but learned of her elimination only as the semi-finals were about to start.
Reigning champion and fellow Kiwi Sheree Alabaster did survive, likewise learning of her future in the competition only moments before the semi-final started.
David Fagan and Cam Ferguson have just shorn in the machine shearing semi-finals but the list of six finalists is not yet available.
- SHEARING FLASH - July 22, 2010
- New Zealand shearers David Fagan and Cam Ferguson have reached the final of the World championship at the Royal Welsh Show.
Fagan, the 48-year-old five-times former winner from Te Kuiti, qualified second of the six named a short while ago for the 20-lamb final to be shorn later this morning NZT, while Ferguson, from Waipawa, qualified in fourth place. Top qualifier was Welshman Gareth Evans, New Zealand-based Scotsman Gavin Mutch in third place and the other two finalists are Welsh shearer Gareth Daniels and Kieran McCullough, of Northern Ireland.
- World Shears Update - July 21, 2010
- New Zealand is well placed for a series of major titles at the world championship shearing and woolhadling show in Wales after the first of two days of competition.
Reining woolhandling champion Sheree Alabster lead the field after the first of two rounds in her event with team mate Keryn Herbert in fifth place. Machine shearers David Fagan and Cam Ferguson qualified in first place for the final of the teams machine shearing championship and also made the qualified for the individual semi finals.
- Scots challenge to Kiwi shears hopes - July 21, 2010
- New Zealand based Scots shearer Gavin Mutch has thrown out a big challenge to the New Zealand favourites in the machine shearing at the 14th Golden Shears World shearing and woolhandling championships by topping the second preliminary round at the Royal Welsh Show today.
- Kiwis take charge of glamour event at World shears - July 21, 2010
- New Zealand shearers David Fagan and Cam Ferguson have taken charge of the glamour open competition at the Golden Shears World Shearing Championships in Wales at the end of the first round in Wales this morning.
- Kiwi blades shearer promoted in World Championships preliminary - July 21, 2010
- Canterbury blades shearer Brian Thomson has been promoted from 14th to 8th in the first round of the World championships after a recount of points at the Royal Welsh Show today.
- Kiwi hopes in Welsh senior shears final - July 20, 2010
- Two South Island shearers have qualified for today's final in the major lower-grade supporting event to the 14th Golden Shears World Shearing Championships at the royal Welsh Show
- Shearing World Champs - July 20, 2010
- Canterbury blades shearer Allen Gemmell is best-placed to challenge the African might in the ancient wool craft at the Golden Shears World Championships in Wales overnight by finishing fifth in the first round of qualifying today.
- Fagan wins - July 20, 2010
- Champion King Country shearer David Fagan may have cramped his already tight World Championships odds with the New Zealand TAB even tighter when he won the Royal Welsh Show's All Nations final earlier today (NZT).
- Kiwi guns blazing as world shears show opens - July 20, 2010
- ive New zealand shearing guns have blazed their way through the opening stages of the Royal Welsh Show's All Nations events as Golden Shears World Championships week started at Llanelwedd near Builth Wells in Mid Wales today.
- Fagan misses out - July 18, 2010
- World Championships favourite David Fagan has missed out on qualifying for a final in the last event before his bid for a sixth world title in Wales.
- Fagan hammers the Welsh - July 17, 2010
- Kiwi shearing legend David Fagan unleashed one of his best performances in more than 20 seasons of shearing in Wales when he hammered the locals to win again today on the road to next week’s World Championships at the Royal Welsh Show.
- Fagan scores magical 600th win - July 14, 2010
- Kiwi shearing icon David Fagan cemented favouritism for next week's World Championships when he won the Great Yorkshire open final today - his 600th open-class win.
Fagan, 48, of Te Kuiti, first competed in the open class in the 1982-83 season and has scored almost 150 of his wins in Britain, including eight now in the Great Yorkshire which he first won in 1986.
- New Zealand shearers on top in World shears warm-up - July 11, 2010
- New Zealand shearers have cleaned-up in a major World Championships buildup in England with one blemish – the two Kiwi team members in the main event were beaten by another Kiwi.
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- The World Shearing Championships will be held at the Royal Welsh Show, which is at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, on July 19-22.... Looking forward to the team bringing home the gold!
- Morale boosting win for World champ Kiwi woolhandler - July 5, 2010
- Taihape schoolteacher Sheree Alabaster has scored a morale-boosting win a fortnight ahead of her World woolhandling title defence by winning the open title at the Lochearnhead Shears in Scotland.
The win at the weekend followed her third place in the Royal Highland Show final in her season's UK debut a week earlier. Teammate Keryn Herbert, of Te Kuiti, failed to reach the final.
- Kiwis pipped by Scots hopes in shearing test - June 28, 2010
- A mere eight-hundredths of a point has separated New Zealand from Scotland in the first test of the Kiwi shearing team's World Championships tour of the UK.
But it was a home team win in the feature match on Sunday at the Royal Highland Show at Islington, Edinburgh, where New Zealand-based Gavin Mutch and fellow Scotsman Hamish Mitchell triumphed over World Championships favourite and King Country veteran David Fagan and comparative rookie Cam Ferguson, from Central Hawke's Bay.
- Six-tonne milestone looms for shearing giant - June 23, 2010
- Kiwi sheep-shearing giant David Fagan is on target to break a milestone of 600 wins in open class competition ahead of next month's World Championships when he competes at the the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh on Sunday.
The 48-year-old who vies with All Black great Sir Colin Meads for acclaim as Te Kuiti's favourite son moved the penultimate step towards the six-tonne goal when he won a near all-New Zealand final at the Romney Shears in Kent last Sunday. The previous day, at the start of his 26th season in the UK, Fagan was third to Welsh shearer Gareth Daniel in the Three Counties open final at Malvern, Worcestershire.
- Golden Shears champion claims first UK win in World Champs build-up - June 14, 2010
- Golden Shears shearing champion Cam Ferguson has launched his preparations for next month’s World Championships in Wales by winning a major title in England.
Ferguson won the Royal Cornwall Open, his first victory since winning the 50th Golden Shears in Masterton in March, as a 26-year-old, in-form, first-time finalist conquering a host of veteran champions to claim the first of two machine-shearing places in the New Zealand team.
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New Zealand wool is recognised internationally for its quality and consistency as a result of the partnership between sheep farmers, wool harvesters and processors. The skills of shearers, wool handlers and pressers maximise the value of the wool grown throughout the country and help maintain New Zealand's proud tradition as a producer of the world's finest wools.
Shearing Sports New Zealand - our role...
- Manage the delivery of over 60 shearing, wool handling and pressing competitions throughout New Zealand annually
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