NZ Shearing Champs Day Two: Sean Fagan wins novice final
9 Apr, 2021 04:30 AM
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New NZ Shears novice champion Sean Fagan (left), with his grandfather John and father Neil. Photo / SSNZ
New NZ Shears novice champion Sean Fagan (left), with his grandfather John and father Neil. Photo / SSNZ
The Country
Shearing sports has saluted the emergence of the next generation of Fagan champions.
Sean Fagan (16) won the novice shearing final on the second day of the New Zealand Shears in hometown Te Kuiti today.
On hand to witness the achievement in the Les Munro Centre was Sean s grandfather John Fagan who won the Shears first open final in 1985, when it was known as the King Country Shears. This was a year after John won the Golden Shears Open final in Masterton.
Friday, 9 April 2021, 3:57 pm
New
New Zealand Shears Novice champion Sean Fagan (left),
grandfather and inaugural 198 championships Open final
winner John Fagan (centre), and Sean s dad, John s son Neil.
Photo / SSNZ
The shearing sports
have saluted the emergence of the next generation of Fagan
champions with a win by 16-year-old Sean Fagan in the Novice
shearing final on the second day of the New Zealand Shears
in hometown Te Kuiti today.
On hand to witness the
achievement in Te Kuiti’s Les Munro Centre was grandfather
John Fagan who won the shears’ first Open final when the
event was established as the King Country Shears in 1985, a
Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 12:31 pm
Organisers of the New Zealand Shears are breathing a sigh
of relief as they bounce-back from the cancellation of last
year’s event to stage the 2021 championships starting in
Te Kuiti tomorrow(Thursday).
More than 200 shearers
and woolhandlers will compete in the three-day
championships, which 12 months ago became one of the early
casualties of the 2021 Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown –
called-off for the first time since the New Zealand
championships were resurrected initially as the new King
Country Shears in 1985.
While a Level 2 alert which
cancelled this year’s Golden Shears in Masterton at just
four days’ notice a month ago sent shivers up the spines
Pictured
in Rathkeale’s moment of victory were (from left) Shearing
Sports New Zealand chairman and shearing legend Sir David
Fagan, shearers Charlie Heard, Michael Buick, Sam Mathewson,
and Sam Loder, woolhandler Liam Quirke, and 2014 World
champion and seven-times Golden Shears Open winniner Rowland
Smith. Photo / NZ Rural
Games
Rathkeale College claims
schools shearing title
Wairarapa boys school Rathkeale
College has been rewarded for a possible World-first by
winning the first New Zealand Rural Games Secondary Schools
Shearing Championship in Palmerston North.
The school
north of Masterton, the heart of Golden Shears country,
recently made shearing one of the core sports of its
Press Release – Shearing Sports New Zealand Pictured in Rathkeales moment of victory were (from left) Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman and shearing legend Sir David Fagan, shearers Charlie Heard, Michael Buick, Sam Mathewson, and Sam Loder, woolhandler Liam Quirke, and 2014 World champion …
Pictured in Rathkeale’s moment of victory were (from left) Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman and shearing legend Sir David Fagan, shearers Charlie Heard, Michael Buick, Sam Mathewson, and Sam Loder, woolhandler Liam Quirke, and 2014 World champion and seven-times Golden Shears Open winniner Rowland Smith. Photo / NZ Rural Games
Rathkeale College claims schools shearing title
Wairarapa boys school Rathkeale College has been rewarded for a possible World-first by winning the first New Zealand Rural Games Secondary Schools Shearing Championship in Palmerston North.