Rosara Joseph
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Rosara Joseph is a New Zealand cyclist who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the Women's mountain bike racing
Mountain bike racing
The Union Cycliste Internationale recognised the sport of mountain bike racing relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned the world championships in Purgatory, Colorado. The first mountain biking world cup series took place in 1991. Its nine-race circuit covered two continents—Europe and North...

 event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

. She is also the current Oceania champion, a Rhodes Scholar and a lawyer.

Cycling

  • In training for the 2006 Commonwealth games, in 2005 she finished 16th in the World Cross Country Mountainbiking Championships in Italy
  • Silver Medal for New Zealand in the Women's Mountain bike racing
    Mountain bike racing
    The Union Cycliste Internationale recognised the sport of mountain bike racing relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned the world championships in Purgatory, Colorado. The first mountain biking world cup series took place in 1991. Its nine-race circuit covered two continents—Europe and North...

     event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
    Commonwealth Games
    The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

    .
  • She finished ninth in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
    2008 Summer Olympics
    The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

    in the women's cross country race.

Education and prizes

  • 2000 - Brooker's Prize in Legal System
  • 2002 - Duncan Cotterill Award in Law
  • 2003 - Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Prize in Law
  • 2003 - Russell McVeagh Prize for Excellence in Intellectual Property
  • 2005 - Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, Cantebury
  • 2005 - Gold Medal in Law
  • 2005 - Inaugural Gerald Orchard Prize in Law for excellence in the Law of Evidence
  • 2005 - Bachelor of Arts in History
  • 2006 - Commenced Bachelor of Civil Law ("a highly-esteemed master’s-level qualification") at Oxford
  • DPhil at Oxford University

Legal career

  • Clerk for the President of the NZ Court of Appeal in Wellington. (Justice Anderson and Justice Glazebrook)
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