12 Facts About Joshua Jefferis

Joshua Jefferis was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Joshua Jefferis has won medals at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Joshua Jefferis is a parallel bars and rings specialist, starting in the sport when he was only two years old.

Joshua Jefferis was first coached by Anthony Beake at Y-West.

In 1992 as a seven-year-old with Y-West, Joshua Jefferis became part of the Queensland HPC development program and stayed with the program for three years.

Joshua Jefferis represented Australia at the 2002,2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Joshua Jefferis competed in the World Championships in 2003,2005,2006,2007,2010, and 2011.

In January 2012, Joshua Jefferis was passed over by Gymnastics Australia to participate at a London Olympic Games test event.

Joshua Jefferis represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in men's artistic gymnastics.

Joshua Jefferis was officially selected on 1 June 2012, one of the first to be named to Australia's gymnastic squad, and was Australia's only male artistic gymnast at the Games.

Joshua Jefferis was twenty-six years old when he made his Olympic debut.

Joshua Jefferis's family faced difficulty getting tickets to watch him compete, as Gymnastics Australia was only able to secure two tickets per gymnast at the Games.