Kim Robins

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Kim Robins
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1988-06-12) 12 June 1988 (age 37)
Perth, Australia
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Sport
PositionGuard
Disability class 3.0
ClubBe Active Perth Wheelcats
Medal record
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Hamburg Team

Kim Robins (born 12 June 1988) is a 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He represented the Rollers team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1]

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Biography

Kim Robins was born on 12 June 1988. [2] He was diagnosed with a neural tube defect when he was about 12 months old. [3] In 1992, as a four year old, he was the poster child for a world-first education campaign run by the Telethon Kids Institute to raise awareness about the link between folate and neural tube defects. [4] He has a degree in sports science from Edith Cowan University and Masters in Finance from RMIT.

Basketball

He is a 3 point player. [2] At 18, he decided to pursue wheelchair basketball over tennis. [3] A deciding factor was that it was a team sport. “All my friends played, and Western Australia has a long history of producing exceptional wheelchair basketball athletes at an international level.” [3] He has played wheelchair basketball professionally in Perth and Europe. [3]

His international debut for the Rollers was at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany, where they won the bronze medal. His Paralympic debut with the Rollers ended with a win against Turkey for fifth place.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win/loss record of 4-4. [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Kim Robins". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Heath, Nicola (9 August 2018). "How an Aussie mum and son became the face of a life-saving folate campaign". SBS. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Tomlinson, Angie (10 September 2018). "Decades of research a win for WA babies". The West Australian. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Rollers end Tokyo campaign fifth". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
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