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Press Release – Shearing Sports New Zealand
Megan Whitehead mid-way during her shearing record, with father and clockwatcher Quentin Whitehead looking on from the next pen. Photo / Supplied. A sprightly Southland shearer has today smashed a womens world record by clipping 662 lambs in nine
Megan Whitehead mid-way during her shearing record, with father and clockwatcher Quentin Whitehead looking on from the next pen. Photo / Supplied.
A sprightly Southland shearer has today smashed a women’s world record by clipping 661 lambs in nine hours in a woolshed near Gore.
Tipping the scales at just 60kg, standing just 1.7m tall and shearing and despatching the average 34-36kg lambs at an average of less than 50 seconds each, 24-year-old Megan Whitehead was chasing the previous record of 644 set in 2007 by Waikato shearer Emily Welch.
Sunday, 10 January 2021, 4:12 pm
The stage is being set for a unique attempt in Southland
next week on a World shearing record which has gone
unchallenged for 13 years.
Gore shearer Megan
Whitehead, 24, will attempt the solo women’s nine-hours
strongwool lamb shearing record of 648 (72 an hour), set on
November 27, 2007, by Waikato shearer Emily Welch. The
previous record of 541 had been set in 1989. Megan has been
shearing in recent months in Hawke’s Bay and King Country,
as well as adhering to a specific physical training
regime.
Megan’s attempt will take place at the Grant
Brothers woolshed, 76 Croydon Bush Rd, Croydon Bush, Gore