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Shearing Sports New Zealand welcomes all competitors coming to New Zealand for the 15th Golden Shears World Championships which will be held during the 52nd "Golden Shears" in Masterton from February 29 to March 3. Shearers and woolhandlers from more than 20 countries will be in New Zealand, some arriving weeks or even months ahead of the championships, living and preparing in communities thoughout the country. There are about 60 competitions throughout the country from the beginning of October to early April, and many of New Zealand's smallest towns will host some of the World's biggest names in this sport as some of these visitors compete in the buildup to the championships. Scroll-down for details on upcoming events, and other details including latest news and results can also be found on this site.
Events for this Month:
All dates on this website are updated for 2011-2012 season!
Media Releases:
- King pins hopes on big wins in the South - January 23, 2012
- It's five years since Dion King set the nine-hour lambshearing record, and almost another year since he won the Golden Shears Open and PGG Wrightson double at Masterton in 2006.
- Shearing Record - January 20, 2012
- King Country shearer Stacey Te Huia is moving to Australia, with plenty to show for his World Record day-out with Waikato shearer and farmer Sam Welch this week.
- Shearing: Hawke's Bay gun wins big in Southland - January 20, 2012
- Hawke's Bay shearer and New Zealand representative Dion King scored an important victory when he won the Northern Southland Community Shears Open final near Lumsden today.
- Record bid challenge's shearing's Everest - January - 13, 2012
- One of the greatest tallies ever shorn in a New Zealand woolshed will be challenged in a two-man World record bid in the King Country on Wednesday.
The challenge to the solo nine-hours record for strongwool ewes will be made by 33-year-old Te Kuiti shearer Stacey Te Huia.
- UPDATE: 6pm - Shearing record: An apprentice, but still the World's best
Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia has smashed a women's record in the King Country today by becoming the first woman to shear more than 500 lambs in eight hours.
The 30-year-old in only her fifth season of shearing shore 507 to set a new World women's record, beating the founding mark of 470 established by university graduate and Wairoa shearer Ingrid Baynes three years ago.
Despite lower back pains, Te Huia shore constantly at quicker than a lamb a minute, with successive two-hour runs of 124, 124, 133 and 126, breaking the record just before 4.26pm, and passing 500 with six-and-a-half minutes to go.
- UPDATE: 3pm
Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia is bolting towards a goal of becoming the first woman to shear 500 lambs in eight hours after a "magic" run of 133 in the two hours after lunch at Te Hape.
With 124 in each of the morning runs she was well above record pace but just short of that required for the personal milestone.
But the resurgence, without any lambs rejected by the judges and despite a lower back ache, took her to afternoon smoko with a tally of 381, needing just 90 to break the record of 470 established by university graduate and Wairoa shearer Ingrid Baynes three years ago, and another 20 to pass the personal goal.
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- UPDATE:12pm Te Kuiti shearer on target to shatter women's record - January 10, 2012
Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia has halfway in her World record attempt in the King Country marginally shy of the pace required to become the first woman to shear 500 lambs in eight hours.
When the second of the four two-hour runs ended at 11.30am she had shorn 248, well ahead of the pace set by university graduate and Wairoa shearer Ingrid Baynes who shore 233 in the four hours to lunch in setting her record of 470 three years ago.
Shearing at Te Hape, east of Benneydale, Te Huia shore 124 from the start at 7am to the morning smoko break at 9am, and looked to be stepping-up the pace when 64 were sent through the porthole in the next 60 minutes, her best hour of the day. In just under an hour to lunch she shore another 60.
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- Te Kuiti shearer on target to shatter women's record - January 10, 2012
- Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia is on target to smash a World shearing record and possibly become the first woman to shear 500 lambs in eight hours.
- Irishman Scott reclaims shearing record - January - 10, 2012
- There were some anxious moments in a woolshed near Taupo today, but none handled it better than man-in-the-middle and Irish shearer Ivan Scott as he reclaimed the World eight-hour lambs shearing record.
- Woolhandlers take spotlight at national lambshearing champs - January 02, 2012
- The pressure will be on New Zealand's top woolhandlers at the Western Shears' national lambshearing championships in Raglan on Saturday(January 7) as they resume a year-long competition to find two representatives for the World Championships in Masterton in March.
- Irish shears champ out to reclaim record - December - 31, 2011
- New Zealand-based Irish shearing champion Ivan Scott will try to reclaim the World solo eight hours lambshearing record in a woolshed near Taupo early in the New Year.
- MEDIA ADVICE - World Shearing Records: January 10 and January 18 2012
- World record attempts January 10 and January 18 2012.
- Sharp blades rule shear champs qualifiers - November 24, 2011
- The sharp blades of Canterbury shearers Mike McConnell and Brian Thomson have placed them on the cusp of being the first members to be chosen for New Zealand’s team at the World shearing and woolhandling championships in Masterton in March.
- Winning return for NZ champ Smith - November 20, 2011
- Reigning New Zealand Open shearing champion Rowland Smith during the weekend became the latest top North Island shearer to venture south to win the Open title at the Nelson A and P Show Shears.
- Four in a row for Southland shearing gun - November 20, 2011
- The small township of Tapanui continues to be happy hunting ground for leading South Island shearer Nathan Stratford who won the centennial West Otago A and P Show’s Open shearing title on Saturday.
- Shear series favourite bounces back - November 13, 2011
- World Championships New Zealand shearing selection series favourite John Kirkpatrick bounced back quickly from a first round demise when he won the Central Hawke’s Bay A and P centennial show title from a lineup of the country's best in Waipukurau on Saturday.
- Aussies hammer Kiwis in Christchurch shears tests - November 12, 2011
- Led by former World champion Shannon Warnest, the Australian shearing and woolhandling team scored a series of stunning victories at the New Zealand Corriedale Championships in Christchurch yesterday.
- Test matches back on in Christchurch - November 10, 2011
- Sports buffs yearning for international events in Christchurch will get it all in a rush on Friday with three transtasman tests during the New Zealand Corriedale Shearing and Woolhandling Championships at the Canterbury Show.
- Shears champ retires, and tackles sport's longest day
- November 09, 2011
- Taranaki shearer Paul Avery has given up the chance of another World shearing title to tackle the World Multisport Championship in the Coast-to-Coast one-day endurance event.
- Romney Shears 2011 in NIT - November 07, 2011
- Reigning New Zealand Shears circuit champion Dion King found Warrnambool in Australia an unlikely place to round-off his World Championships qualifying series preparation, but he did it with style.
- Buick powers to first big Open win - November 06, 2011
- Wairarapa farmer David Buick emerged from a geographical wilderness and years of living in the shadow of New Zealand's top shearers to win his first Open title at the Manawatu A and P Show on Saturday.
- Kirkpatrick rules again at Wairarapa shears - October 30, 2011
- Napier shearing gun John Kirkpatrick made an early push for a sixth consecutive season as New Zealand's top-ranked shearer when he regained the Wairarapa Spring Shears Open title on Saturday.
- Coster coasts to early win in big shears series warm-up - October 23, 2011
- National multi-breeds shearing champion Tony Coster got in some early winning form in what he hopes will be the biggest season of his career by claiming the Northern A and P Show Open title in Rangiora on Saturday.
- Wool champion dedicates wins to killed boss - October 23, 2011
- Leading woolhandler Keryn Herbert has some big goals for the new season, but on Friday all the motivation was emotional as she retained the Great Raihania Shears Open title and dedicated the triumph to her "boss" who was killed in a farm accident last week.
- David Fagan denied a memorable double - October 16, 2011
- New Zealand representative Dion King had to put in one of his better performances of quality shearing to beat a top quality lineup and deny the legendary David Fagan a memorable double in the new season's first North Island shearing competition in Gisborne on Saturday.
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- Win and loss for Kiwi shears team in Australia - October 09, 2011
- New Zealand has started its annual home and away transtasman shearing and woolhandling series' with mixed success at the Royal Show in Perth, West Australia yesterday (Saturday).
- Fagan hits half-century on top - again - October 09, 2011
- Shearing icon David Fagan has again shown that advancing age is still no bar to success on the competition board by winning his last competition before turning 50.
- Kiwi shears hopes invade Australian west - October 04, 2011
- Shearing gun John Kirkpatrick returns to the territory of an unlikely former triumph at the Perth Royal Show this week as New Zealand tackles the 50th Transtasman Shearing Test, the first leg of an annual home-and-away series which began in 1974.
- Kumeroa champions the moment - October 03, 2011
- Prolific woolhandling champion Joanne Kumeroa was again the lady of the moment as she won the 50th anniversary New Zealand Merino Championships open woolhandling title in Alexandra on Saturday(Oct 2).
- One each as Kiwis share merino champs spoils - October 01, 2011
- South Island shearers Grant Smith and Charlie O'Neill kept the New Zealand flag flying with victory in the first Tri-Nations Machine Shearing Challenge which brought together six of the best finewool shearers in the World ...
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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