Robert Tobin

Robert Tobin

Robert Tobin (left) with the GB 4x400 m team at the World Championships in 2009
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	4x400 m relay
World Championships
	2009 Berlin	4x400 m relay
European Championships
	2006 Gothenburg	4x400 m relay
	2010 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
	2012 Helsinki	4x400 m relay
European Indoor Championships
	2007 Birmingham	4x400 m relay
	2007 Birmingham	400 m
Commonwealth Games
	2010 Delhi	4x400 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.

Tobin was born Robert John Tobin the youngest of two children born to Jacqueline (née Chidlow) and John Tobin.

At the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, he won the silver medal in the 4x400 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 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 three Olympic Games (Athens, Beijing and London). With Beijing bringing back his best performance in an Olympic Games of 3rd in the 4x400, 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.

• Robert Tobin at World Athletics
• Rob Tobin Team GB Profile

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