Marshall Guy took out the junior final, emulating the efforts of Bevan and Bryce who won the intermediate finals in 2009 and 2012 respectively, and Charlie who won the novice final in 2011.
Guy was first to finish the five-sheep final, taking 7min 39.588s, beating Mataura shearer Kahn Culshaw, 18, by just over a 1s with easily the best quality points, Guy won the title comfortably by more than 4pts, with Culshaw second, and Welsh shearer Dylan Jones, 19, third. Novice winner Josh Balme, a St Paul's Hamilton boarder from Te Kuiti, was fifth.
Southland shearer Corey Palmer stopped the Guy family from taking another title when he won the senior final. First off the board in the 12-sheep showdown, Bryce Guy had to settle for second place behind the 23-year-old from Dipton, but there was less than three-tenths of a point separating them. Casey Bailey, of Masterton, was third, in only his third shearing competition.
South Island-based Napier competitor Ataneta Puna, 22, added the senior woolhandling title to the junior title she won in 2011. But it was the closest final in any event in Golden Shears history, after she and Logan Kamura, of Marton, tied on 192.06pts, and judges required a countback on wool assessment points before handing-out the ribbons.
Lincoln College final year B Com Ag student Sarah Higgins, 20, from Havelock, in Marlborough, had her biggest win after a busy season by taking the junior woolhandling final.
