Gisborne woolhandler Brittany Tibble returned to the scene of her first woolhandling final win, to record her second a year later on the opening day of the 2017 New Zealand Shearing Championships in Te Kuiti today.
Tibble scored her first win in the New Zealand Championships Senior final a year ago and repeated the effort today.
Although she started woolhandling about six years ago, the 25-year-old mum-of-two has had only three other appearances in finals, including third in the Golden Shears Senior woolhandling final last year.
To win today's five-handler final with the wool from five second-shear sheep each she had to beat two of the best performers of the 2016-2017 season.
Napier woolhandler Angela Stevens, of Napier, who won the Junior title last year and who last month won the Southland All Nations Senior woolhandling title during the World championship in Invercargill, was runner-up and 2017 Golden Shears Senior champion Jamie McLean, of Taihape, was fifth.
