Joshua Booth

Joshua Booth (born 9 October 1990) is an Australian rower. He is a triple Olympian and Olympic silver medal winner from Melbourne, Australia. He rowed in the Australian men's eight at the London 2012 Olympics, Rio 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics|Tokyo 2020 Olympics Joshua has two miniature groodles, Albie and Lenny; and lives in Melbourne.

Club and state career Born in Melbourne, Booth was educated at Deepdene Primary School and learnt to row at Scotch College in Melbourne. He studied medicine at Melbourne University. Booth's senior club rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club.

On ten consecutive occasions from 2011 to 2021 Booth was seated in the Victorian men's eight who contested the King's Cup at Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In those crews he saw three King's Cup victories in 2015, 2016 and 2021 (on two occasions with Booth at stroke) and six second places.

International representative rowing Booth made his Australian representative debut in 2010 when selected in the Australian men's U23 eight to contest the World Rowing U23 Championships in Brest, Bulgaria. That crew finished in ninth place. After appearing in the event, he was expelled from the Australian team as a result of an incident in which he broke windows at two small businesses in the Surrey town of Egham while drunk. Having apologised and paid damages to the owner of the damaged properties, he was released without charge by British police.

Booth continued to row at the highest Australian level from the first year of the new Olympiad. He was selected in a coxless four for the 2013 World Rowing Cup I in Sydney and then in 2014 at the World Rowing Cup I he raced in both the Australian eight and in a coxless four. However, in neither of those years did he represent at a World Championship.

In their second regatta of the 2018 international season and in an Australian selection eight racing as the Georgina Hope Rinehart National Training Centre, in honour of Rowing Australia patron, Gina Rinehart, Booth won the 2018 Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. The fourth Australian men's eight to ever do so. The following week at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Booth rowed in the Australian eight to silver medal in a thrilling 0.14 second finish behind Germany. The eight were looking for a top five finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The eight placed second in their heat and fourth in the final and qualified for Tokyo 2020.