{"id":316021,"date":"2026-03-06T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316021\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:09:07","slug":"golden-shears-2026-all-six-nz-team-members-qualify-for-world-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316021\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Shears 2026: All six NZ team members qualify for world semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">In machine shearing, qualifying was headed by New Zealand\u2011based Scotsman and 2012 world champion Gavin Mutch, ahead of Toa Henderson, of Kaiwaka, and Rowland Smith, of Maraekakaho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand did not win any of the six titles at the last world championships, held in Scotland in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">All three defending champions made the semi-finals \u2013 Rabela, machine shearer Gwion Evans, from Wales, and woolhandler Rosie Kennan, of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Qualifiers for Saturday\u2019s Golden Shears semi-finals (in order of qualifying):<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The top six from each semi-final will advance to the finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Machine shearing: Gavin Mutch (Scotland) 46.365pts, 1; Toa Henderson (New Zealand) 47.897pts, 2; Rowland Smith (New Zealand) 47.955pts, 3; Llyr Jones (Wales) 50.745pts, 4; Adam Dickson(Falkland Islands) 51.038pts, 5; Hamish Mitchell (Scotland) 53.34pts, 6; Matt Smith (England) 53.898pts, 7; Gwion Evans (Wales) 54.149pts, 8; Denis O\u2019Sullivan (Ireland) 55.265pts, 9; Daniel McIntyre (Australia) 55.808pts, 10; Jeremy Leygonie (France) 56.264pts, 11; Noel Gardiner (Cook Islands) 56.603pts, 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Blade shearing: Allan Oldfield (New Zealand) 76.012pts, 1; Tony Dobbs (New Zealand) 84.26pts, 2; Teboho Nyatsa (South Africa) 86.557pts, 3; Andrew Mudge (England) 89.034pts, 4; Bonile Rabela (South Africa) 89.279pts, 5; Johnathon Dalla (Australia) 94.928pts, 6; Daniel Rogers (Australia) 97.751pts, 7; Martin Hopkins (Ireland) 101.152pts, 8; Rhydian Evans (Wales) 106.597pts, 9; George Mudge (England) 106.804pts, 10; James Hopkins (Ireland) 108.099pts, 11; Elfed Jackson (Wales) 108.732pts, 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Woolhandling: Joel Henare (New Zealand) 120.615pts, 1; Keryn Herbert (Cook Islands) 121.387pts, 2; Racheal Hutchinson (Australia) 123.776pts, 3; Marika Braddick (New Zealand) 134.493pts, 4; Charis Morrell (Switzerland) 152.362pts, 5; Jonathon Haakull (Norway) 153.819pts, 6; Tina Elers (Cook Islands) 157.757pts, 7; Hilary Bond-Harding (England) 158.644pts, 8; Pilar Castro (Falkland Islands) 171.207pts, 9; Lucie Grancher (France) 180.164pts, 10; Jess Parkhouse (England) 180.409pts, 11; Rosie Keenan (Scotland) 181.479pts, 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In machine shearing, qualifying was headed by New Zealand\u2011based Scotsman and 2012 world champion Gavin Mutch, ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,22641,5263,5759,2082,23834,305,3012,661,4754,111,43,139,69,23908,66755,1534,21231,50410,50408,4739,171334,7187,165,21638,102,50460,377,2963],"class_list":{"0":"post-316021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-2246","9":"tag-20th","10":"tag-all","11":"tag-championships","12":"tag-for","13":"tag-golden","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-hopes","16":"tag-major","17":"tag-members","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-qualified","23":"tag-qualify","24":"tag-saturday","25":"tag-semifinals","26":"tag-shearing","27":"tag-shears","28":"tag-six","29":"tag-soared","30":"tag-team","31":"tag-their","32":"tag-titles","33":"tag-with","34":"tag-woolhandling","35":"tag-world","36":"tag-zealands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}