Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin (left) with the GB 4 × 400 m team at the World Championships in 2009 | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Athletics | ||
| Representing Great Britain | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| 2008 Beijing | 4 × 400 m relay | |
| World Championships | ||
| 2009 Berlin | 4 × 400 m relay | |
| European Championships | ||
| 2006 Gothenburg | 4 × 400 m relay | |
| 2010 Barcelona | 4 × 400 m relay | |
| 2012 Helsinki | 4 × 400 m relay | |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
| 2007 Birmingham | 4 × 400 m relay | |
| 2007 Birmingham | 400 m | |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| 2010 Delhi | 4 × 400 m relay | |
Robert "Rob" John Tobin (born 20 December 1983 in Lincoln, England) is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.
Personal life
Tobin was born Robert John Tobin the youngest of two children born to Jacqueline (née Chidlow) and John Tobin.
Career
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 at the Commonwealth Games. He has been to three Olympic Games (Athens, Beijing and London). With Beijing bringing back his best performance in an Olympic Games of 3rd in the 4 × 400, in a time of 2 minutes 58.81 seconds with Andrew Steele, Michael Bingham and Martyn Rooney.
His talent was honed in his youth at the Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletic Club.