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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Esther Addley

‘I feel like I’ve been run over by a tank’: Scottish woman breaks world sheep-shearing record

Una Cameron stands in front of a flock of shorn sheep in a farmyard
Una Cameron – and some freshly shorn sheep – at Trefanck Farm, near Launceston in Cornwall, where she broke the record (in a lamb-slide). Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian

Una Cameron may not be an Olympian, but this week she achieved a feat of athleticism to rival anything accomplished by Team GB in Paris – and requiring just as much intensive training and support.

On Wednesday, Cameron, 51, shattered a world sheep-shearing record at a farm in Cornwall, cropping a remarkable 517 sheep in nine hours – an effort described by one expert as the equivalent of running two marathons back to back.

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