Perfect result first time

Speight's Perfect Woman winner CJ Maxwell, of Queenstown, takes a novel approach to opening her bottle. Photos by Lucy Ibbotson.

Queenstown helicopter engineer CJ Maxwell has her hockey team-mates to thank for winning the Perfect Woman competition in Wanaka on Saturday.

"My hockey team has been on at me for the last three or four years [to enter] because I'd come to hockey with my motorbike in the back of the ute and my hunting gear on," Miss Maxwell (23) said.

Originally from a farm near Alexandra, Miss Maxwell entered the event for the first time and "wasn't really expecting" to win the title.

Her demonstration of how to take the top off a bottle of beer using a chainsaw was a crowd favourite.

CJ Maxwell, of Queenstown, (centre) won the Perfect Woman competition in Wanaka on Saturday. Jayne Lovett (left), of Winton, was third, and Latoya Grant, of Wanaka, was second.

The 30 contestants were put through a series of challenges at the Bullock Bar, including driving a quadbike and a mini digger, changing a car tyre, skinning a rabbit, lugging a goat carcass through an obstacle course and shooting a paintball gun at posters of Australian rugby player Quade Cooper.

While Miss Maxwell is already one man's perfect woman, second place-getter Latoya Grant (22), of Wanaka, and Jayne Lovett (37), of Winton, who was third, were both single and looking, they said.

A keen outdoorswoman, Miss Maxwell planned to spend her $1000 prize on a season pass for the Skyline mountain biking trails.

The competition raised funds for cancer charity Can-Live Trust.

- lucy.ibbotson@odt.co.nz

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