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24-year-old breaks women s shearing record in 9 hours
19 January 2021 |
The New Zealander has set a new women’s nine-hour lamb shearing record (Photo: Shearing Sports NZ/Facebook)
A 24-year-old sheep shearer from New Zealand has shattered the women s shearing record - clipping 661 lambs in nine hours.
Megan Whitehead sheared the 34-36kg lambs at an average of just 49 seconds each, according to Shearing Sports NZ, the governing body for competitions.
The record was broken on Wednesday 13 January at the Grant Brothers’ Gore woolshed.
She was chasing the previous record of 648 set in 2007 by fellow Kiwi shearer Emily Welch.
Welch and other female shearing legends were both among the hundreds who urged Whitehead on during the day.
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Megan Whitehead:
Is a 24 year-old Southland shearer who set a world record just outside of Gore last week, shearing 661 strong wool lambs in nine hours, beating the previous nine-hour record of 648 which was set in 2007 by Waikato shearer Emily Welch.
For seven months she swore off caffeine, alcohol, bread and sugar and went to the gym six nights a week, all the while holding down a fulltime shearing job. She dropped from 68kg to 60kg, building more muscle on her lean frame. “I am the fittest I have ever been.” That said, she was “struggling a bit” in the last run on Thursday, with the lambs not always compliant. “I had to counsel myself mentally and I had Dad there keeping me positive . because if one kicks, and you are losing seconds, you have to forget about it and just keep moving forward.”