Rosara Joseph

Joseph riding a criterium for the NZ National road cycling team during the 2007 Bay Classic Series
Personal information
Born	(1982-02-21) 21 February 1982 (age 41) Christchurch, New Zealand
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Cross country road racing
Role	Rider
Medal record Women's mountain bike racing Representing  New Zealand Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne Mountain bike

Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand cyclist who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the Women's mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is also the current^[when?] Oceania champion^{[clarification needed]}, a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford,^[1] 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 event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.^[2]
• She finished ninth in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the women's cross country race.^[3]

Education and prizes

• 2000 – Brooker's Prize in Legal System^[2]
• 2002 – Duncan Cotterill Award in Law^[2]
• 2003 – Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Prize in Law^[2]
• 2003 – Russell McVeagh Prize for Excellence in Intellectual Property^[2]
• 2005 – Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, Canterbury^[2]
• 2005 – Gold Medal in Law^[2]
• 2005 – Inaugural Gerald Orchard Prize in Law for excellence in the Law of Evidence^[2]
• 2005 – Bachelor of Arts in History^[2]
• 2006 – Commenced Bachelor of Civil Law ("a highly-esteemed master’s-level qualification") at Oxford^[2]
• 2011 – DPhil at Oxford University^[2]

Legal career

• Clerk for the President of the NZ Court of Appeal in Wellington. (Justice Anderson and Justice Glazebrook)^[2]
• Legal and policy consultant, New Zealand Productivity Commission, 2012– ^[4]