Worldskills Update After this story went to print, WorldSkills International announced the cancellation of the competition in Shanghai. Other options for holding an international event are now being investigated. For the latest updates, go to www.worldskills.org.au
Clancy competing at the “skill off”.
DESTINATION: SHANGHAI
We caught up with Perth-based fridgie Tom Clancy, who will represent Australia at the 46th Worldskills International Competition in China. Western Australian Tom Clancy is about to enter the elite club of people who have represented their country at an international competition. Some compete in the pool, others on a running track. Tom will fly the flag by working on air conditioning and refrigeration equipment at the 46th Worldskills International Competition in Shanghai in October 2022.
more than 250,000 people to watch more than 1,300 competitors from 63 countries competing across 56 different skills. And even more fanfare and fireworks are expected in China.
It might not get the same coverage as the Olympics, but the WorldSkills International Competition is huge. The previous event, held in Russia in 2019, brought together crowds of
It’s something Clancy couldn’t have dreamed of when, one day at South Metropolitan TAFE, lecturer Keith Glenn, M.AIRAH, came into the class and asked who wanted to compete in WorldSkills.
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“No one else put their hand up,” remembers Clancy. He admits that back then he didn’t even know what WorldSkills was. “But me being young, I thought, ‘I like my chances here. I don’t know what it is, but I’ll have a right good crack!’ ” Clancy made it through the regional competition, and went on to compete at the nationals. Although he didn’t make the top step that time, gold medallist Cameron Harrison finally could not commit to the training and travel demands of the international competition. WorldSkills looked to the runners-up: Ryan Hanns from the ACT, and Tom, from WA.
