The Toronto Spiders have taken back the B2B title!!!
International Back to Back Wool Challenge
P.O. Box 34
Birregurra Victoria 3242 Australia
20010 Results Annual Challenge
Promoting Wool World Wide & Fund Raising for Cancer Research
Ph: + (03) 5233 6241 Email: backtoback@iprimus.com.au
POSITION TEAM 2010 Time Previous Best Time
1. Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5hr 52min 48sec 5hr 55min 50sec 2008 . Including a 5 min penalty NEW CANADIAN RECORD 2010
2. Team 1, Pelhrimov, Czech Republic 6hr 52min 10sec 7hs 34min 15sec 2009 . NEW CZECH REPUBLIC RECORD 2010
3. Hitsujikouboh Masako, Chibaken, Japan 7hr 14min 04sec 5hr 33min 46sec 2006 JAPANESE RECORD 2006
4. Spinning Knitwits-Newcastle, Patterson, NSW, 7hr 22min 35sec 5hr 43min 26sec 2004 Australia
5. Kurrajong Handspun Crafts, NSW, Australia 7hr 44min 00sec 6hr 34min 19sec 2007
6. Team 2, Pelhrimov, Czech Republic 7hr 44min 13sec 8hr 32min 40sec
7. Bloemfontein Spinners Academy, 8hr 13min 40sec 9hr 9min 15sec 2009 Republic of South Africa NEW SOUTH AFRICAN RECORD 2010
8. Gumeracha Gumknutters, Lobethal, South Australia 9hr 34min 38sec 7hr 21mins 59sec 2009
9. Gospereau Valley Team, Nova Scotia, Canada 9hr 59min 10sec 11hr 15min 00sec 2007
10. Cotswold Woolgatherers, Stroud, 10hr 10min 00sec 9hr 40min 13sec 2009 . Gloucestershire, UK
11. Thunder Bay Weavers& Spinners, Ontario, Canada 14hr 25min 12sec 17hr 46min 20sec 2008
12. The Unspun Heroes, George River, 7hr 37min 00sec 15hr 09min 00sec New Team . Cape Brenton Island, Nova Scotia Canada Including a 5 minute penalty
13. Spinthrift Scotsville Cape Brenton Island, 15hr 30min 00sec New Team . Nova Scotia Canada
Guinness WORLD RECORD
Pembroke Merriwa Jumbucks, NSW, Australia 4hr 51min 14sec ~ 2004
2010 Awards:-
Scottish Wool Centre - The winning team world wide.
Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5hr 52min 48sec
Including a 5 min penalty NEW CANADIAN RECORD 2010
City of Geelong - Winning Australian team.
Spinning Knitwits-Newcastle, Patterson, NSW, 7hr 22min 35sec
Shipway Trophy - For the winning New South Wales, Australia, team.
Spinning Knitwits-Newcastle, Patterson, NSW, 7hr 22min 35sec
Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers Ltd Trophy for the winning Canadian team.
Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5hr 52min 48sec
Including a 5 min penalty NEW CANADIAN RECORD 2010
Brigadoon Trophy- The team with the greatest donation to charity.
Results to be announced when all the results are in.
Media Release
Toronto Spiders Spin a Winning Woolly Web
The Toronto Spiders team competing at Black Creek Village in Toronto, Ontario, handspun and knitted a jumper from sheep’s back to theirs in just under six hours to win this years International Back to Back Wool Challenge.
Winning a whole hour ahead of the second place getter, The Czech Republic team, their time was not enough to break the Guinness world record time of 4 hours 51 minutes and 14 seconds, held by the Merriwa Jumbucks
Thirteen teams of blade shearers, handspinners and knitters entered at
twelve different venues around the world in the sixteenth Challenge, completed on Sunday 20th June 2010.
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, two teams competing on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada for the very first time.
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 :- Toronto Spiders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5 hours 52 minutes 48 seconds.
NEW CANADIAN RECORD Including a 5 min penalty.
Second:- Team 1, Pelhrimov, Czech Republic 6 hours 52 minutes 10 seconds.
NEW THE CZECH REPUBLIC RECORD
Third:- Hitsujikouboh Masako, Chibaken, Japan 7 hours 14minutes 04seconds
InsideToronto.com did a great article - check it out!!
sufficient and a half hour faster than the 2nd place team. Here's a link to the official results.
and experiencing it as a Survivor for the fi
rst time was very special. Thank you to all of my supporters - you were all with me in spirit!!!
from Grade 8! It was a lovely evening, she was (as if there was any doubt
, last minute beauty emergencies notwithstanding) beautiful and her teacher made a wonderful DVD montage of the year for all of the graduates. I am so proud of her and can't believe that my baby is going to be in high school in the fall.
