International Back to Back Wool Challenge

P.O. Box 34

Birregurra Victoria 3242 Australia

2009 Results                                                                     Annual Challenge

Promoting Wool World Wide & Fund Raising for Cancer Research

Ph: + (03) 5233 6241  Fax: + (03)  5233 6338  Email:  backtoback@iprimus.com.au

 

POSITION                 TEAM                             2009 Time     Previous Best Time  

1.             Spinning Knitwits-Newcastle, Patterson, NSW,           6hr 3min 20sec    5hr 43min 26sec  2004    Australia

 
2.             Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   6hr 8min 25sec    5hr 55min 50sec 2008
                Including a 5minute penalty.                                                                           CANADIAN RECORD 2008  
 
3.             Kurrajong Handspun Crafts, NSW, Australia              7hr 6min 55sec     6hr 34min 19sec 2007

 

4.             Gumeracha Gumknutters, Lobethal, South Australia     7hr 21mins 59sec 7hr 55min 48sec 2007

5.             Hitsujikouboh Masako, Chibaken, Japan                               7hr 28min 08sec        5hr 33min 46sec 2006                                                                                                                                                                                                                              JAPANESE RECORD 2006

6.             Team 1, Pelhrimov, Czech Republic                                 7hs 34min 15sec   8hr 48min 29sec                                                                                                                                                                                     NEW CZECH REPUBLIC RECORD

7.             Wonder Woollies, Carleton Place, Ont, Canada             7hr 37min 00sec    10hr 00min 00sec    

8.             Team 2,  Pelhrimov, Czech Republic                 8hr 32min 40sec     9hr 43min 42sec                    

9.             Senekal Spinners Academy, Bloemfontein, South Africa  9hr 9min 15sec   New Team                                                                                                                                          NEW SOUTH AFRICAN RECORD

10.           Cotswold Woolgatherers, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK 9hr 40min 13sec       New Team             

11.           W F Friends, Stirling, Ontario, Canada                             10hr 41min 00sec    13hr 26min 15sec 2008

12.           Poly Wester’s, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada                   10hr 50min 00sec      11hr 45min 00sec 2006

13.           Gospereau Valley Team,  Nova Scotia, Canada              11hr 50min 5sec      11hr 15min 00sec 2007      

14.           Rhodes Runners, Kurrajong,NSW Australia                  Unfinished                Unfinished

               

Guinness WORLD  RECORD

Pembroke Merriwa Jumbucks, NSW, Australia           4hr 51min 14sec   ~    2004

 

2008 Awards:-

Scottish Wool Centre - The winning team world wide.

                                    Spinning Knitwits (Newcastle)¸ Patterson, NSW, Australia 

                                    6hr 3min 20sec 

 

City of Geelong -        Winning Australian team.

                                    Spinning Knitwits (Newcastle)¸ Patterson, NSW, Australia 

 

Shipway Trophy -        For the winning New South Wales, Australia, team.

                                    Spinning Knitwits (Newcastle)¸ Patterson, NSW, Australia 

 

Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers Ltd Trophy for the winning Canadian team.

                                    Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                                       6hr 8min 25sec

 

Brigadoon Trophy-     The team with the greatest donation to charity.

                        Results to be announced when all the results are in.

Media Release

 

 

 

 

Australia wins back the Back to Back Trophy

 

The Spinning Knitwits team competing at Tocal Agricultural College, Paterson, NSW handspun and knitted a jumper from sheep’s back to theirs in just over six  hours to win this years International Back to Back Wool Challenge.

 

Only Five minutes and Five Seconds separated them from the Toronto Spiders competing in Canada but not enough to break the Guinness world record time of 4 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds, held by the Merriwa Jumbucks

Toronto had a five minute penalty so in reality, the margin was just five seconds.

 

Fourteen teams of blade shearers, handspinners and knitters entered at

twelve different venues around the world in the fifteenth Challenge, completed on Saturday 13th June 2009.

 

Each team consisted of a blade shearer, a country of origin sheep and seven

handspinners (with spinning wheels) and knitters who follow the identical

Challenge rules and pattern to knit the adult size jumper.


The teams were from six different countries, South Africa competing for the very first time with a team at Bloemfontein, Free State.

 

Each team not only promoted wool world wide but raised substantial

funds for Cancer Research.

 

Countries competing this year included Australia, Canada, Japan, UK, South Africa and the Czech Republic.

 

Results:-        

First :-       Newcastle Spinning Knitwits¸ Tocal, NSW  6 hours  3 minutes   20 seconds.

 

Second:-   Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario,  Canada             6 hours  8 minutes   25 seconds.

 

Third:-      Kurrajong Handspun Crafts, NSW, Australia            7 hours   6minutes    55seconds