Randolph Arthur John Scott Rose (25 December 1901 – 4 March 1989) was a notable New Zealand athlete and farmer. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1901. He was a gifted middle-distance runner and came from a family of athletes, but lacked ambition and hardly ever trained. In his first year of competitive running, he won a three-mile race at Wellington's Basin Reserve with so much ease that he jumped the finish tape. Disqualified by officials, he became an instant celebrity. He was Wellington champion in 1922, the New Zealand champion in the following year, and the Australasian champion in 1924. He missed the 1924 Summer Olympics as he had been operated for appendicitis in March 1924. When American runner Lloyd Hahn, who had come sixth in the 1500 metres at the Olympics, visited Wel