Tobin (left) with the GB 4 × 400 m team at the World Championships in 2009 | |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | British (English) |
Born | 20 December 1983 Lincoln, England |
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | 400m |
Club | Basingstoke & Mid Hants AC |
Medal record |
Robert John Tobin (born 20 December 1983) is an English former sprinter and 400 metres runner who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1]
Tobin was the youngest of two children born to Jacqueline (née Chidlow) and John Tobin.[ citation needed ] His talent was honed in his youth at the Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletic Club and has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.
At the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, he won the silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay along with Rhys Williams, Graham Hedman and Timothy Benjamin, in a time of 3 minutes and 1.63 seconds. He won the bronze medal in the 400 m at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, also in the same championships picking up a gold in the 4 × 400 m. In 2009 in the World Athletic Championships in Berlin, he was part of the silver medal-winning 4 × 400 relay team. 2010 saw him picking up two medals a silver in the European Athletics Championships and a bronze representing England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. [2]
He has been to two Olympic Games (Athens, Beijing and London), with Beijing bringing back his best performance in an Olympic Games of third in the 4 × 400, in a time of 2 minutes 58.81 seconds with Andrew Steele, Michael Bingham and Martyn Rooney. [1]
Tobin became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British Athletics Championships in 2009. [3] [4]