Ivan Scott finished in third place at the World Speed Shear competition at the World Shearing Championships in New Zealand.
Over 100 of the world’s fastest shearers had competed in the first heat of the competition.
Ivan made it to the semi-final before being knocked out by Kiwi shearers Jack Fagan and Paerata Abraham who battled it out in the final.
The Kilmacrennan native missed out on the final by hair’s breadth, finishing outside the top two by less than half a second with a time of 21.24 seconds, 0.43 of a second after Fagan’s time of 20.81.
Ivan also took part in the All-Nations Open Shearing and World Machine Shearing events.
On Thursday, he finished sixth in the All-Nations Open Shearing event and came fifth in the World Machine Shearing competition, the semi-final of which takes place this weekend.
Ivan hit headlines last summer for setting a new world record for the fastest sheep shearing after fleecing 867 strong wool lambs in only nine hours.
The previous world record was held by New Zealand shearer Dion King, who shaved 866 crossbred lambs in nine hours. King’s record remained unbeaten for almost a decade.
In order to beat King’s record, he had to shear 97 sheep per hour, meaning he had just over thirty seconds per sheep.
Ivan is no stranger to competitive sheep shearing, having smashed the Irish record last June. He fleeced 820 Irish ewes in nine hours in Mayo, beating the previous record of 483 held by Wexford man, George Graham in 1997.
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