Josh Ross (sprinter)
{{Short description|Australian sprinter}}
{{About|the Australian athlete|Canadian musician|Josh Ross}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
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| full_name = Joshua James Ross
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1981|2|9}}
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
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| height = 185 cm
| weight = 83 kg
| headercolor = gold
| textcolor = green
| country = {{AUS}}
| sport = Men's Athletics
| coach = {{unbulleted list|Piero Sacchetta (since 2011)|Adam Larcom (2008-2009)|Paul Nancarrow (2008)|Emil Rizk (2006-2007)|Tony Fairweather (2001-2006)|Gerry Thomas (1999-2001)}}
| event = {{plainlist|
| worlds = 2005 Helsinki: 100 m – Semi finalist
| regionals =
| nationals = {{plainlist|
- 2004 Athletics Championships: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2005 Athletics Championships: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2006 Athletics Championships: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2007 Athletics Championships, Brisbane: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2007 Athletics Championships, Brisbane: Men's 200 m – Gold
- 2009 Athletics Championships: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2012 Athletics Championships: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2013 Athletics Championships: Men's 100 m – Gold
- 2013 Athletics Championships: Men's 200 m – Gold
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| olympics = {{plainlist|
- 2004 Athens: Men's 100 m – Semi finalist
- 2004 Sydney: Men's 4 × 100 metres relay – Sixth
- 2012 London: Men's 4 × 100 metres relay – Sixth
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| commonwealth = Hamburger
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| pb = 10.08 seconds (2007 National Athletics Championships, Brisbane): Men's 100 m
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Joshua James Ross (born 9 February 1981) is an indigenous Australian track and field sprinter. He was national 100-metre (100m) champion for a record seven times and competed for Australia at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Ross is the fourth fastest Australian of all time with a personal best time over 100m of 10.08 seconds achieved on 10 March 2007, after Patrick Johnson (9.93 in 2010), Rohan Browning (10.01 in 2021) and Matt Shirvington (10.03 in 2007).{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/trae-williams-quadzilla-sprinter-nails-stunning-1010sec-100m-to-win-national-title/news-story/f7b38931ded4566c47baf0bb8e6d44ba |title=Trae Williams: Quadzilla sprinter nails stunning 10.10sec 100m to win national title |publisher=News.com.au |author=Salvado, John |date=17 February 2018 |access-date=18 February 2018 |agency=AAP}}
Early life
Ross was born 9 February 1981 in Sydney. He spent his early childhood in south western Sydney and moved with his family to the Central Coast at around age seven. He went to Woy Woy Public School and Henry Kendall High School.
On the Central Coast, Ross attended Little Athletics and he won his first Australian title at age 10 in the long jump. Apart from the occasional school competition, however, he did not return to athletics until he was nineteen. During that time he played representative rugby league on the Central Coast.{{cite news |url=https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/638378/josh-ross-may-be-in-running-for-olympics/ |title=Josh Ross may be in running for Olympics |author=Murray, David |work=Illawarra Mercury |date=6 November 2012 |access-date=14 July 2023 }}
Career
Ross attracted immediate attention as a sprinter in 2003 when he comfortably won the Stawell Gift off a mark of {{convert|7|m|spell=on}}. In 2005, he again won the Stawell Gift – this time from the honoured scratch mark time, becoming only the second athlete to achieve this feat (behind Madagascar's Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa in 1975) and the first Australian. He also became the third person ever to win the event twice.{{cite news |url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/5193637/ross-back-for-stawell-crack/ |title=Athletics: Two-time Olympian Josh Ross returns to Hunter for shot at history-making third Stawell Gift title |work=Newcastle Herald |author=Callihan, Josh |date=28 January 2018 |access-date=19 February 2018 |archive-date=19 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219150527/http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5193637/ross-back-for-stawell-crack/ |url-status=live }}
He reached the semi-finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2005 World Championships. He has won four consecutive Australian national 100-metre titles and became a vital and successful member of Australia's 4 × 100m relay team which placed sixth at the Athens Olympics in 2004. Ross holds the fastest 100m time by an Australian on native soil, his personal best, 10.08 seconds, set in Brisbane on 10 March 2007. He also has a personal best in the 200m of 20.53.{{cite web |title=Athlete Profile: Joshua Ross |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/joshua-ross-14178860 |website=World Athletics |access-date=14 July 2023}}
An Indigenous Australian, Ross was awarded the 2004 Deadly Award for Male Sportsperson of the Year.{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-10-23/deadly-awards-honour-indigenous-achievements/572318 |title=Deadly Awards honour Indigenous achievements |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=23 October 2004 |access-date=19 February 2018 }}
Ross won his fifth Australian national 100m title in March 2009;{{cite news |url=http://issuu.com/insideathletics/docs/ia08final/19?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml |title=The Boss is Back |work=Inside Athletics |publisher=International Association of Athletics Federations |via=issuu.com |date=8 April 2009 |pages=18–19 |access-date=19 February 2018 }} and reportedly retired in the same year.{{cite press release |url=http://corporate.olympics.com.au/dmNews/F5259E66-5056-B031-6A94F2F2B88338C6 |title=Ross announces retirement |publisher=Australian Olympic Committee |date=13 November 2009 |access-date=19 February 2018 |agency=AAP }}{{cite news |url=https://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/watt-gets-the-jump-on-stawell-gift-field/2010/03/24/1269106286762.html |title=Watt gets the jump on Stawell Gift field |author=Silkstone, Dan |work=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=19 February 2018 }}
Ross returned to athletics and won his sixth national 100m title in 2012 with a time of 10.23. Ross also threatened to walk out of the Australian 4 × 100m Olympic relay team if he was not allowed to compete in the individual men's 100 metres at the Olympic Games. Ross's most successful year has been 2007 when he ran his personal best of 10.08 then 10.10 then 10.12 and then 10.13.{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-14/breen-falls-short-of-oly-qualifier/3950488/?site=ballarat |title=Breen falls short of Oly qualifier |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=14 April 2012 }} He was a member of the Australian 4 × 100m relay team that equalled the Australian record when they qualified for the finals at the 2012 London Olympics.{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-11/aussies-through-to-relay-final/4192124?section=olympics |title=Aussies through to relay final |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=11 August 2012 }} Ross and John Steffensen held a press conference in the week before the games began, criticising their selection in only the relay event and not the individual races.{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/london-games/john-steffensen-selection-furore-to-force-aa-policy-rethink/story-fne39yqs-1226436183909 |title=John Steffensen selection furore to force AA policy rethink|first=Glenda|last=Korporaal |work=The Australian |date=27 July 2012}}
Ross gained the sprint double at the 2013 Victorian Championships when he won the men's open 100-metre and 200-metre finals at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park. In 2013, in a time of 10.34 seconds, Ross won his seventh national 100m title, equalling the record of Hec Hogan.{{cite web|url=https://athletics.possumbility.com/athletes/athlete4907.htm |title=Australian Athletics Results }}
In late 2013 Athletics Australia served Ross with an infringement notice for failing to appear for mandatory Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority drug tests on three occasions over an 18-month period.{{cite news |url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/twotime-olympic-sprinter-josh-ross-appeals-twoyear-ban-for-missing-drug-tests/news-story/2e972e1497a34329ac9dfe9d5e8dd316 |title=Two-time Olympic sprinter Josh Ross appeals two-year ban for missing drug tests |author=Morgan, Kym |work=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=6 December 2013 |access-date=19 February 2018 }} Following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Ross was suspended for 12 months, which ruled him out of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/sport/breaking-news/sprinter-josh-ross-paying-the-price-for-asadas-drug-test-nightmare/news-story/fe2d3e9d548e0819bb709089b17d22ae |title=Sprinter Josh Ross paying the price for ASADA's drug test nightmare |author=Morgan, Kym |work=Sunday Mail |location=Adelaide |date=2 March 2014 |access-date=19 February 2018 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/athletics/three-australian-sprinters-banned-for-drug-breaches-20140325-hvmmi.html |title=Three Australian sprinters banned for drug breeches |author=Gleeson, Michael |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=25 March 2014 |access-date=19 February 2018 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/athletics/olympian-josh-ross-channels-anger-over-latest-missed-asada-test-20160315-gnjp3u.html |title=Olympian Josh Ross channels anger over latest 'missed' ASADA test |author=Lane, Daniel |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=16 March 2016 |access-date=19 February 2018 }}
In 2018 Ross competed in the Stawell Gift, but did not progress beyond the heats.{{cite web |title=2018 results - Stawell Gift 120m heats 1-10 |url=https://www.stawellgift.com/stawell-athletic-club-stawell-gift-120m-saturday-heats-11-21/ |website=Stawell Gift |publisher=Stawell Athletic Club |access-date=14 July 2023}}
He is recognised in the Australian Olympic Committee list of Australian Indigenous Olympians.{{cite web|title=Australian Indigenous Olympians|url=http://corporate.olympics.com.au/files/dmfile/Australian%20Indigenous%20Olympians_19Feb2015_v2.pdf|website=Australian Olympic Committee website|access-date=10 May 2015}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130502144611/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/ross-joshua-1292422/ Profile] at London2012.com
- [http://london2012.olympics.com.au/athlete/joshua-ross Profile] at Australian Olympic Team
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.athletics.com.au/fanzone/athleteprofiles/joshua_ross |title=Profile at Athletics Australia |access-date=11 August 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231063546/http://www.athletics.com.au/fanzone/athleteprofiles/joshua_ross |archive-date=31 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}
- {{World Athletics}}
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/joshua-ross-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418011044/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/joshua-ross-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Joshua Ross}}
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