| Rosara Joseph | |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Currentteam: | Retired |
| Discipline: | Cross country road racing |
| Role: | Rider |
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Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982, Christchurch) is a New Zealand cyclist, active between 2005 and 2012, who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the women's mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
She was a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford.[1]
Joseph began competing in mountain biking in 2005, and in 2006 she won the Oceania Cross Country Championships, held in Melbourne.[2]
In 2006, she won silver for New Zealand in the women's mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.[3]
In 2007, she finished fifth in the cross country at the mountain bike world championships in Scotland.[4]
She finished ninth in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the women's cross country race.[5]
Joseph studied law at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and gained a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in 2005, winning the university Gold Medal for top graduating law student that year.
In 2005, she was also awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, to study for a Bachelor of Civil Law.[6] She graduated DPhil in 2011. Her thesis, The War Prerogative, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.[7]
She also clerked for two Presidents of the New Zealand’s Court of Appeal.
As of 2024, she works for the New Zealand Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.[8]