Robert Tobin
Robert John Tobin is an English former sprinter and 400 metres runner who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Tobin was the youngest of two children born to Jacqueline and John Tobin. 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.
He has been to two Olympic Games, 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.
Tobin became the British 400 metres champion after winning the British Athletics Championships in 2009.