Personal information | |
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Nationality | New Zealander |
Years active | 2009 - |
Sport | |
Sport | Sheep shearing |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | World Record for most strong-wool ewes shorn by a women |
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]
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]
Personal information | |
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Nationality | New Zealander |
Years active | 2009 - |
Sport | |
Sport | Sheep shearing |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | World Record for most strong-wool ewes shorn by a women |
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]
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]