Robert "Rob" John Tobin (born 20 December 1983 in Lincoln, England) is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 sprinter

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

. 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 Championships in Athletics

2006 European Championships in Athletics

The 19th European Athletics Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 7 August and 13 August 2006. The competition arena was the Ullevi Stadium and the official motto "Catch the Spirit"...

 in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, he won the silver medal in the 4x400 m relay along with Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams may refer to:*Rhys Williams , Welsh actor*Rhys Williams , Welsh athlete*Rhys H. Williams , Welsh rugby union player...

, Graham Hedman

Graham Hedman

Graham Hedman is a British sprinter. At the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, he won the silver medal in the 4x400 m relay along with Robert Tobin, Rhys Williams and Timothy Benjamin, in a time of 3:01.63.-Personal bests:100 m 10.64 sec 200 m 21.02 400 m 45.84 400 L 45.0...

 and Timothy Benjamin

Timothy Benjamin

Timothy David Benjamin is a former professional athlete from Wales. He specialised in the 400 metres, and in his teens was coached by Jock Anderson, in the same training group as Christian Malcolm...

, 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

Birmingham

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, also in the same championships picking up a gold in the 4x400m. In 2009 in the World Athletic Championships in Berlin, he was part of the silver medal-winning 4x400 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 two Olympic Games (Athens and Beijing). With Beijing bringing back his best preformance in an Olympic Games of 4th in the 4x400, in a time of 2 minutes 58.81 seconds.

His talent was honed in his youth at the Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletic Club.

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