The results are in for day one of the AWI National Sports Shear and Woolhandling local event in Jamestown yesterday.
After over 150 entrants faced off in their respective teams before the Trans-Tasmin competition got underway.
Winning the open section of the machine shearing was Daniel McIntyre, Glen Innes, NSW, with a score of 70.80, while SA's Shawn Barnett followed second with a score of 71.95 and Brandon Waters in third with 74.15.
Mr McIntyre said it felt good to win and do it with SA sheep with the challenge of different sheep types that he is use to in Northern Tablelands in NSW.
"It gave me a bit of confidence going into the next day," he said.
"I've been sharing for just on 25 years, I've been doing shows right from the novice right through all my life.
"I've been to 18 nationals, but the shape were quite different so that was probably the biggest challenge here."
In the blade shearing John Dalla, Warooka, SA, snapped up first place with a 59.88 with the second place picked up by Daniel Rogers with a 75.87 score and third by Andrew Murray with 79.47.
The blade shearing competition was met with times as quick as six minutes a sheep while machine shearing saw times as quick as two minutes in the open section.
In the woolhandling open competition Tia Potae cleaned up first with a score of 49.50, while Kirsty Bone got second with 52.20 and Marlene Whittle in third with 61.70.
Blade shearer John Dalla, Warooka, said it was fantastic to win the Trans-Tasmin blade shearing after the amount of effort and practice that went into it.
"They have been in front of us for about 10 years, so with Andy in the team now, he's only young - doing the development with him, to finally get up over top of the kiwi's is just absolutely fantastic," he said.
"I've been competing now for 21 years, so I did my first show when I was 13 over in Victoria - it's been a fair while.
"With blade shearing everything's manual, it's a little bit more technical, like with the gear, if it is wrong, you can't shear the sheep.
"But I find it a little bit more enjoyable than machine shearing."
Mr Dalla also competed in the National competition today with results for that championship available tomorrow.
This competition rounded out the end of the 2022-2023 national season with tomorrows national kickstarting the 2023-2024 championships.
Stock Journal's KIARA STACEY was among the hive of the event and snapped these photos.
Kiara Stacey
Journalist for Stock Journal. Kiara was in classified sales at Stock Journal before joining the editorial team in 2021. Kiara completed a Bachelor of Communication (journalism) at Deakin University the year prior.
Journalist for Stock Journal. Kiara was in classified sales at Stock Journal before joining the editorial team in 2021. Kiara completed a Bachelor of Communication (journalism) at Deakin University the year prior.
