World Record for most strong-wool ewes shorn by a women
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]
In 2012, in her fifth season of shearing, Te Huia broke the women's eight-hour solo lamb shearing world record by shearing 507 lambs; the previous record was 470.[4][5] She subsequently moved to South Australia, and has worked as a trainer at Women in Shearing workshops at the TAFE institute in Naracoorte.[6]
In 2018, Te Huia broke the women's world record for shearing the most strong-wool ewes in nine hours: 452 ewes. The shearing took place at Otapawa Station in Tiraumea.[7]
ReferencesEdit
^"Kiwi breaks women's shearing record". Newshub. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
^Miller, Catherine (3 November 2016). "Click go the shears girls". Stock Journal. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^Ltd, Dzina. "Shearing Sports NZ". shearingsports.co.nz. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^"Record bid challenge's shearing's Everest - Farming UK News". www.farminguk.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^"Call to make shearing an Olympic sport - National Rural - Sheep - Wool - The Australian Dairyfarmer". adf.farmonline.com.au. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^"Gun shearer Kerry-Jo is cut above the rest". NewsComAu. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^"King Country shearer breaks women's nine-hour record". Stuff. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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