Josh Hose
 2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Hose | |||||||
| Personal information | |||||||
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| Nationality | Australia | ||||||
| Born |
1 December 1986 Camperdown, Victoria | ||||||
| Residence | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||
| Sport | |||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair rugby | ||||||
| Disability class | 3.0 | ||||||
| Event(s) | Team | ||||||
| Club | Wheelchair Sports Australia | ||||||
| Team | Victorian Thunder | ||||||
Medal record
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Josh Hose, OAM (born 1 December 1986) is a wheelchair rugby player. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair rugby.
Personal
Joshua Anthony Hose was born on 1 December 1986 in Camperdown, Victoria.[1][2][3][4][5] On 26 January 2005 (Australia Day), he was involved in a car accident[4] that left him a C6 – C7 Paraplegic; he dislocated a vertebra when the roof of his car collapsed after a rollover.[2] He ended up spending two weeks in a medically induced coma during his recovery.[6] His subsequent paralysis is from the waist down.[6] Growing up, he played cricket, football and basketball.[6] He moved to Melbourne, Victoria in mid-2008[6] and resides there as of 2012[7] where he attends university[2][1] and works as a motivational speaker.[1]
Wheelchair rugby
Hose is a 3.0 point wheelchair rugby player.[1][3] He is a member of Wheelchair Sports Australia,[1] the Victoria state wheelchair rugby team,[2] and plays for the Victorian Thunder in the National Wheelchair Rugby League.[8] As of 2012, he has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport[9] and was also supported by Victoria's Disability Sport and Recreation.[10] He trains at the Victorian Institute of Sport and in the cities of Kew, Caroline Springs and Box Hill.[1]
Hose watched the 2008 Summer Paralympics wheelchair rugby matches and some local games, and it inspired him to take up the sport after seeing an opportunity to play while rehabbing in Victoria.[4][6]
Hose was a member of Victorian state team in 2009 and 2010.[1] In 2012, as a member of the Victorian Thunder, he played in the national championships.[11]
National team
Hose made his national team debut in 2009 at the Asia Oceania championships,[4][1] after being selected for the team in May.[6]
Hose played in the 2010 World Championships[4][1] where Australia finished second.[2] That year, he also represented Australia at the 4 Nations event and the Canada Cup.[1]
In 2011, Hose was regularly flying between Brisbane and Melbourne to train with the national team in Brisbane.[7]
Hose trained with the national team in 2012 at the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.[12][13] In May 2012, he participated in a test series against Japan in Sydney.[14][15] He was part of the Australian team at the 2012 Canada Cup.[15] His team finished first at the London hosted 2012 Paralympic Test Event.[4] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair rugby[3][16][17] in May 2012 before the start of the Opening Ceremony of the International Wheelchair Rugby Test Series.[4] The Games were his first.[4] Going into London, his team was ranked second in the world behind the United States.[4] He was part of the team that won the gold medal.[18] The Australian team went through the five-day tournament undefeated.[19]
He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Josh Hose". Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS). 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Josh Hose". Australia: Independence Australia. 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Josh Hose". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 "Hose realises London dream". Camperdown Chronicle. 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Andrew Thomson (2009-10-21). "Aussie selection for rising wheelchair rugby star". The Warrnambool Standard. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Meagan Rooth (2011-05-26). "Honour for Paralympic wheelchair rugby hopeful". The Warrnambool Standard. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ "Player statistics for Josh Hose (3.0)". SportingPulse. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ "Victorian Athletes Selected for London Olympics and Paralympics". VicSport. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ "Latest News". Disability Sport and Recreation. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ↑ "IWRF News". International Wheelchair Rugby Federation. 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ↑ Stathi Paxinos (2012-02-29). "Rock'n'roll rugby: world's best player rolls with the punches". Brisbanetimes.com.au. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
- ↑ "Aussie Wheelchair Rugby". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
- ↑ Michelmore, Karen (2012-05-04). "Australia's Steelers smash and crash their way to London -". ABC Sydney — Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Kate Butler (2012-05-09). "Hose dares to dream of Paralympics glory". The Warrnambool Standard. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ "Australian Wheelchair Rugby Team announced for London 2012". Wheelchair Sports NSW. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ↑ "Australian Steelers team named for London 2012". National Wheelchair Rugby League. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ↑ "Mixed Wheelchair Rugby - Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
- ↑ "Batt stars as Australia win gold". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 9 September 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.