Bouskill, who won the trophy for best quality, claimed the fourth spot.
Fieldays 2024: Tim Garrick, of Gisborne, has aced this year's Fieldays Fencing Competition. Photo / Stephen Barker, Barker Photography
The Golden Pliers competition showcases individual skills. The qualifying heats for this were held prior to Fieldays, with the top eight finalists competing during Fieldays.
“Tim has had a few wins this year at regional competitions that have set him up well,” said Petersen.
Garrick also excelled in the Silver Spades Doubles Championship where he claimed the top spot together with his partner Cory Twigley, de-throning Bouskill yet again.
Tony and his father Shane came in second place this year.
The doubles competition attracted international participants Jason Day and Alexander Asser from the USA and South Island qualifiers Craig Sinclair and Will Pei.
Garrick shared a post from New Zealand Fencing Competitions, which announced the winners, on his personal social media page. While he left it uncommented, it drew in quite a flood of positive reactions from his friends and family.
“Fantastic result worthy of your talent and perseverance,” one person commented.
“Oh massive congratulations!! You have worked so hard for that for such a long time,” another one said.
The Fieldays Fencing Competition went on for three days and kicked off with the Bill Schuler Singles on Wednesday, named after the late Bill Schuler, to encourage younger up-and-coming competitors or those new to fencing competitions.
Micheal Trott took out first place, with the judges commenting that he used speed to his advantage but also had enough quality to take the win.
Cory Twigley and Tim Garrick won the Silver Spades Doubles Championship at Fieldays. Photo / Liam Clayton.
“Fieldays Fencing Competitions are a chance for competitors to come together and discuss ideas and techniques with like-minded people whilst sharing the good spirit that fencing competitions encouraged between contractors in the industry,” said Petersen.
The Fieldays Fencing Competitions are organised and run by NZ Fencing Competitions (NZFC). NZFC was formed in 2013 as a committee committed to promoting and governing fencing competitions in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, the Fieldays Tractor Pull Competition also celebrated some nice wins.
This year was the 49th year of the competition being held at Fieldays. Since the start, it has been a consistent visitor favourite.
Contestants put their machines to the test throughout the four days, battling it out in various categories determined by tractor and load weight, age and modifications.
Michael Austin, Kevin Mounsey, Wally Sinton, Shawn Luxton, are the overall winners of this year's Tractor Pull competition. Photo / Stephen Barker, Barker Photography
The purpose-built Fieldays Tractor Pull track is a hard clay-packed area of 100 metres in length, running parallel alongside the Waikato River.
Marie Rechner, the venue operations manager at the New Zealand National Fieldays Society, said a lot of work would go into the preparation of the event, but it was encouraging to see an increase in entries year on year.
“It’s great to see this sport, which has been around since the 1800s, still so popular.”
