Harry Mosby

Harry Walter Mosby (3 May 1945 – 17 November 1993), also known as Harry Moseby, is an Australian Paralympic athlete from the Torres Strait. At the 1976 Toronto Games, he won a silver medal in the Men's Discus 1C event and finished fourth in the Men's Javelin C1, fifth in the Men's Shot Put C1 and twelfth in the Men's Precision Javelin C1.

Mosby was born on Yorke Island, or Masig, in the Torres Strait. He was the eldest son of Jack Johnson Mosby (10 June 1910 – 25 October 2001) and Mabel (Alau) Mosby (4 April 1929 – 26 October 1986). In the 1960s, along with many other Torres Strait Islander men, he travelled to Western Australia to work on building the inland railway between remote desert mines in the Pilbara region and ports on the coast. In 1966, aged 21, he lost both legs in a train accident in the Pilbara.

Less than a year before the 1976 Toronto Games in Toronto, Canada, Mosby began training for track and field events in Perth and was selected for the Australian team. He was one of 6 competitors and coaches from Western Australia in those Games: wheelchair basketballers Frank Ponta and Victor Salvemini and their coach and team escort, Les Mathews from Wheelchair Sports Western Australia, and Doug Rupe and Paul Gianni representing visually impaired athletes.

Mosby’s teammate Frank Ponta recalled him as a "Thursday Islander" and a "big tall man" competing in Toronto against "Scandinavian guys who were even bigger than him". Mosby remembered the winner, Finland’s Tauno Mannila, and expressed surprise that he’d placed second after only three months of training. and Olympic basketballer Danny Morseu.