A West Australian worker is believed to have smashed the country’s quick sheep shearing record.

Ethan Harder competed in the Hamish Wills Memorial Quick Shear in Casuarina at the weekend, shearing a sheep in just 14.85 seconds.

“That’s the fastest I’ve ever been,” he told Radio 6PR on Tuesday.

The current record in WA is 19.34 seconds by Lou Brown set in November last year.

“As far was we know, it’s an Australian record for the fastest quick shear time,” a spokesperson for the organisers said.

“We only know of two other instances when a shearer has shorn a sheep in 14 seconds at a quick shear, but that was in New Zealand.”

The World Sheep Shearing Records Society governs attempts across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, and anyone attempting a record must g

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