Personal information | |
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Full name | Emma Kathryne Robinson |
National team | Ireland |
Born | Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom | 16 August 1978
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Breaststroke |
College team | Loughborough University (GBR) |
Coach | Paul Dennis |
Emma Kathryne Robinson (born 16 August 1978) is an Irish former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] She is a former Irish record holder in the 100 m breaststroke and a member of the swimming team at Loughborough University, under her personal coach Paul Dennis. [2]
Robinson made her first Irish team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 100 m breaststroke. She edged out Croatia's Smiljana Marinović to take a fifth spot and twenty-ninth overall in heat three by 0.08 of a second in 1:13.41. [3]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Robinson qualified again for the women's 100 m breaststroke by posting a FINA A-cut of 1:09.64 from the British Olympic trials in Sheffield. [4] [5] She challenged seven other swimmers on the sixth heat, including defending Olympic silver medalist Leisel Jones of Australia. She rounded out the field to last place by a hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Finland's Eeva Saarinen in 1:11.40. Robinson failed to advance into the semifinals, as she matched a twenty-fourth place tie with Portugal's Diana Gomes in the preliminaries. [6] [7]
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