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The Golden Shears International Shearing and Woolhandling Championships is the world's most prestigious sheep shearing event.. Golden Shears competition 2007. It was founded in Masterton, New Zealand, and been held in the town's War Memorial Stadium each March since 1961.
Sheep shearing and wool handling competitions are held regularly in parts of the world, particularly Ireland, the UK, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. [25] As sheep shearing is an arduous task, speed shearers, for all types of equipment and sheep, are usually very fit and well trained.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. New Zealand sheep (1994–2011) Shrek Shrek in November 2008 Species Ovis aries (domestic sheep) Breed Merino Sex Male Born (1994-11-27) 27 November 1994 New Zealand Died 6 June 2011 (2011-06-06) (aged 16) Tarras, Otago, New Zealand Years active 2004–2011 Known for Avoiding capture ...
Kerri-Jo Te Huia is a champion sheep shearer from Te Kūiti, New Zealand. [1] Te Huia is the youngest of five children, several of whom work in shearing. Her parents were also shearing contractors and trainers. [2] In 2009, she competed in the New Zealand Shearing Championships in wool handling and intermediate-grade shearing. [3]
Walter Godfrey Bowen MBE (13 February 1922 – 2 January 1994) [1] was a New Zealand farmer and world acclaimed sheep shearer.With his brother Ivan, he developed the Bowen Technique, which involved the shearer using his spare hand to stretch the sheep's skin, which improved the quality of the shorn fleece. [2]
The town promotes itself as the sheep shearing capital of the world and is host to the annual New Zealand National Shearing Championships. Te Kūiti is approximately 80 km south of Hamilton and 19 km south-east of Waitomo .
Sir David Alexander Fagan KNZM (born 1961) is a New Zealand sheep shearer, who has won the New Zealand Golden Shears contest a record 16 times. [1] From Te Kūiti, Fagan has set 10 world records, and won five world, six world team, and 16 national titles, making him New Zealand's most successful competition sheep shearer. [2] [3]
Keith Wilson is a New Zealand sheep shearer. He holds the unofficial world record for shearing 871 sheep in one day in December 1999. [1] Prior to the 9 hour strongwool lamb record attempt by Rodney Sutton (839 lambs in 9 hours) in 2000, Wilson shore 851 unprepared lambs. Wilson was quoted as saying "I wanted to show Rodney that it could be done".