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Born | Cape Town, South Africa | 16 November 1977||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe slalom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | C1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Robin Bell (born 16 November 1977 in Cape Town) is a South African-born, Australian slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1990s to the late 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C1 event in Beijing in 2008. [1]
Bell also won a complete set of medals in the C1 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold in 2005, a silver in 1999 and a bronze in 2007. [2]
He won the overall World Cup title in C1 in 2005 and 2008.
He was named Western Australian Sports Star of the Year in 2005, and became world number one in 2006.
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C1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 13 |
Season | Date | Venue | Position | Event |
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2001 | 29 July 2001 | Augsburg | 2nd | C1 |
5 August 2001 | Prague | 2nd | C1 | |
2003 | 11 May 2003 | Penrith | 2nd | C1 |
13 July 2003 | Tacen | 3rd | C1 | |
2005 | 9 July 2005 | Athens | 2nd | C1 |
24 July 2005 | La Seu d'Urgell | 2nd | C1 | |
1 October 2005 | Penrith | 1st | C1 1 | |
2006 | 28 May 2006 | Athens | 2nd | C1 |
2007 | 15 July 2007 | Augsburg | 2nd | C1 |
2008 | 16 March 2008 | Penrith | 2nd | C1 2 |
26 April 2008 | Charlotte | 1st | C1 3 | |
21 June 2008 | Prague | 2nd | C1 | |
6 July 2008 | Augsburg | 1st | C1 |
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