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Shearing Sports New Zealand congratulates and thanks all those who competed, judged and otherwise worked so hard to make competitions possible throughout the 2012-2013 season. A special congratulations to those who headed the rankings of shearers and woolhandlers during the season. The rankings, for all competitors who reached finals, appear on the rankings and titles page of this website.
For the 2013/2014 season up to date results will be posted on the competition results page of this website as the events pass and results are confirmed. There is also the latest news available on the Media Releases page.
Events for this Month:
Media Releases:
- Win No 622 a first for shears legend Fagan - 9 December, 2013
- With more than 600 wins and 32 years of top class competition behind him there was still room for something new as shearing legend David Fagan won the Royal Manawatu A and P Show Open final at Manfeild yesterday...
 Hugh McCarroll gets sports service award - 2 December, 2013
- Shearing Sports New Zealand life member Hugh McCarroll collared another award for service to sport at Sport Waikato's Hauraki/Thames-Coromandel awards in Thames on Friday night...
- Marlborough shearers do it again at Nelson show - 24 November, 2013
- Marlborough shearing stalwarts Tony Nott and Chris Jones repeated their successes of last year's Nelson A and P Show when they won the two major titles at the Richmond Park Showgrounds on Saturday...
- Shearing record planned for South Auckland - 24 November, 2013
- World record husband-and-wife sheep shearers Sam and Emily Welch are rewarding employee loyalty by helping their workers also get their names into the books with a five-stand lambshearing record south of Auckland next month...
- No stopping Forde march in southern shearing champs - 24 November, 2013
- Veteran Southland shearer Darrin Forde claimed his third Open title of the Shearing Sports New Zealand season with victory in a 16-sheep final at the 100th anniversary West Otago A and P Show in Tapanui on Saturday...
- Former champ counts the numbers as show entry climbs - 24 November, 2013
- Former World shearing champion Paul Avery had to keep a close eye on the numbers as a startling increase in the number of competitors threatened to throw his home Stratford A and P Show Shears out of kilter on Saturday...
- A show of loyalty keeps the Shears going in Nelson - 20 November, 2013
- Winning certainly isn't everything for veteran Marlborough shearers Chris Jones and Tony Nott who return to the Nelson Show this weekend as defending champions, with surprisingly lean pickings after more than 20 years competing to help keep it alive...
- Coster bounces back for big Canterbury shears win - 16 November, 2013
- New Zealand representative shearer Tony Coster saved his best till last to claim his second national Corriedale championship by beating event favourite John Kirkpatrick at the Canterbury Show on Friday...
- Henare gets elusive Canterbury wool win - 15 November, 2013
- World and Golden Shears woolhandling champion Joel Henare grabbed one of the few titles to have eluded him in his young career with a crushing victory in the Open final at the Canterbury Show in Christchurch yesterday...
- Veteran Southland shearer Darin Forde won - 13 November, 2013
- Veteran Southland shearer Darin Forde won his second title in a week with victory in the Pleasant Point Gymkhana shears on Saturday...
- Ferguson blitzes home-town field again - 09 November, 2013
- Former World champion Cam Ferguson put-in another classic shear to win a remarkable Central Hawke's Bay A and P Show Open shearing title in front of his home crowd in Waipukurau today...
- Alabaster eyes World Champs hopes again - 04 November, 2013
- Taihape woolhandler Sheree Alabaster took a confidence-boosting step towards a possible return to Shearing Sports New Zealand's World Championships team by beating her leading rivals in the Open final at the Wairarapa A and P Show on Saturday...
- Coster completes a Rangiora treble - 29 October, 2013
- New Zealand 2013 UK tour representative Tony Coster won his third consecutive Northern A and P Rangiora Show Open shearing title with yet another victory over fellow Rakaia shearer Grant Smith on Saturday...
- Aussies all at home in transtasman shears tests - 27 October, 2013
- The Shearing Sports New Zealand team has returned home after failing for the second year in a row to win either of its two transtasman tests in Australia....
- Mission man Cam gets Great Raihania title at last - 26 October, 2013
- Man on a mission Cam Ferguson won the Hawke's Bay Show's Great Raihania Shears for the first time on Friday (October 25), completing a treble of wins at three shows in his home province...
- The old firm back for NZ transtasman shearing tests - 23 October, 2013
- Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick moves a step closer to a record-equalling 12th transtasman series test for New Zealand this weekend, reunited with a teammate from his first international 11 years ago....
- Spring in Kirky's step at Gisborne shears - 21 October, 2013
- Prolific Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick got his season off to its earliest winning start in four years when he won the Poverty Bay Shears in Gisborne on Saturday....
- Ferguson bags second Spring Shears title - 14 October, 2013
- Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson returned triumphantly to the scene of one of his most important previous wins when he claimed a second New Zealand Spring Shears Open title in Waimate on Saturday....
- Morrell confirms return to Kiwi shearing team - 9 October, 2013
- Finewool shearing legend Dion Morrell has confirmed he will accept a place in the New Zealand shearing team for this summer's Transtasman tests after a surprise but emotional comeback for second place at the New Zealand Merino championships....
- Early days but rankings history beckons for wool champ Ruki - 8 October, 2013
- It's early days and there's a lot of wool to pass across the table, but Invercargill woolhandler Amy Ruki could be facing a bit of shearing sports history in the wake of her breakthrough Open-class win at the New Zealand Merino Championships in Alexandra on Saturday....
- Boy o Boyle dinkum joy as Aussie wins shears again - 6 October, 2013
- West Australian shearer Damien Boyle has again shut-out the best Kiwi finewool shearers to win the New Zealand Merino Championships open title for a fourth consecutive time....
2010/2011 Competition Directory
Download a full copy of the current competition directory by clicking here or view online here.
All events are listed online under North Island Competition Dates or South Island Competition Dates.
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
- Establish, promote and measure national quality standards in all wool harvesting disciplines at all competitions
- Profile and promote New Zealand wools and wool products at all national and international competitions
- Promote professionalism among all people working in our industry by setting and maintaining standards at all events
- Support professional development and training through partnerships with the Agriculture Industry Training Organisation and Tectra to ensure that people in the industry work to high and consistent standards
- Work alongside New Zealand farmers and shearing contractors to ensure the quality of our wool is maintained and improved through the harvesting process
- Showcase the opportunities our industry presents young people as a career, and provide them support and mentoring through training and competition
Shearing Sports New Zealand - Life Members...
- Robin Kidd
- Hugh McCarroll
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