Josh Junior (born 22 December 1989) is a New Zealand Olympic and international sailor.

Sailing career

During the

2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup The 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup was a series of sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice ...

, Junior finished second in the men's Finn event in Weymouth. After beating out Andrew Murdoch to qualify, he represented

New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics New Zealand competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twenty-third appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and com ...

in the

Finn class The Finn dinghy is a single-handed, cat-rigged sailboat, and a former Olympic class for men's sailing. Since its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the Finn has featured in every summer Olympics, making it the longest serving dinghy ...

, finishing seventh. Junior joined

Team New Zealand Team New Zealand or TNZ is a sailing team based in Auckland, New Zealand representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Team New Zealand became a household name in their home country following their consecutive wins in the America's Cup in ...

in 2016 and was part of the crew that won the

2017 America's Cup The 2017 America's Cup was the 35th staging of the America's Cup yacht race. The challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand, won by a score of 7 to 1 over the defender, Oracle Team USA. It was held on the Great Sound in Bermuda from June 17 to June 2 ...

. In December 2019, Junior finished 1st at the 2019 Finn Gold Cup at the

Royal Brighton Yacht Club The Royal Brighton Yacht Club (founded in 1875) is located at Brighton, Victoria, Australia at 253 Esplanade Brighton.https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/community-directory/royal-brighton-yacht-club-inc History It is said to have all begun as a re ...

. In doing so, he was the first ever

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

sailor to win the event. Junior joined the New Zealand

SailGP SailGP is an international sailing (sport), sailing competition using high performance F50 (catamaran), F50 Sailing hydrofoil, foiling catamarans, where teams compete across a season of multiple grands prix around the world. Its reigning champio ...

team for the

2021–22 SailGP championship The 2021–22 SailGP Championship was the second season of the SailGP championship. Originally due to be contested in 2020, the season was postponed to 2021 after the first round in Sydney due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and was then extend ...

. Junior represented

New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the 2020 Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the country's twenty ...

in the

and placed fifth after out qualifying

Andy Maloney Andrew Maloney (born 2 June 1990) is a New Zealand professional sailor born on 2 June 1990. Sailing career From the Murrays Bay Sailing Club, he finished third in both the 2005 and 2006 World Championships in the Splash class. He finished 13 ...

for selection. Maloney was Junior's coach during the regatta.

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* * * 1989 births Living people New Zealand male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of New Zealand Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Finn Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Finn Team New Zealand sailors Extreme Sailing Series sailors Finn class world champions World champions in sailing for New Zealand 2017 America's Cup sailors 2021 America's Cup sailors {{NewZealand-yachtracing-bio-stub