Robert Tobin

This article is about the British athlete. For the American scholar of literary, cultural, and sexuality studies, see Robert Deam Tobin.

Robert John Tobin (born 20 December 1983) is an English former sprinter and 400 metres runner who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Rob Tobin

Tobin (left) with the GB 4 × 400 m team at the World Championships in 2009
Personal information
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 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

Biography

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]