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The National Finals Breakaway Roping (NFBR), organized by the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) and Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), is the premier championship breakaway roping event in the United States. It showcases the talents of the WPRA's top 15 money winners in the breakaway roping world standings at the end of ...
Breakaway ropes may also be flagged out (disqualified) for any catch other than a bell-collar catch—that is, a clean catch around the calf's neck. [1] At the collegiate, semi-professional, and professional levels, breakaway roping is exclusively a women's event, but at the junior and high school levels, competitors can be both male and female.
Breakaway roping has existed for decades, but until the late 2010s, it was only offered at the youth, high school, college and amateur levels. Some smaller rodeos started adding breakaway roping ...
This article lists all of the major champions from each of the events held yearly at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR), National Finals Steer Roping (NFSR), and National Finals Breakaway Roping (NFBR). Barrel racing and breakaway roping are sanctioned by the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA).
Coed events: team roping; In addition to high school students, the NHSRA provides similar services for junior high school age students, but with some events unique to this division: boys chute dogging, boys breakaway roping and boys goat tying. The Junior division showcases the only event which must have one girl and one boy: dally ribbon roping.
The six primary PRCA male events (bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, and bull riding), as well as the two female WPRA events included at PRCA rodeos (breakaway roping and barrel racing) are featured, and the top ten permit holders in each event compete throughout the Permit Finals for the chance ...
In the United States, there are two organizations that promote calf roping alone: the National Calf Ropers Association (NCRA) and Ultimate Calf Roping (UCR). Other timed rodeo events that use cattle include breakaway roping, where the rider ropes but does not throw the calf; steer wrestling; and team roping, which uses adult cattle.
The National Finals Breakaway Roping (NFBR) has been held since 2020 to determine the Women's Professional Rodeo Association's world champion breakaway roper. The event is held in conjunction with the NFR. The inaugural NFR was held in 1959 in Dallas, Texas, at the Texas State Fair Coliseum and continued at that venue through 1961.