Kim Robins
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | .svg.png){kind=small} Australia |
| Born | 12 June 1988 Perth, Australia |
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in) |
| Sport | |
| Position | Guard |
| 3.0 | |
| Club | Be Active Perth Wheelcats |
Medal record | |
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Kim Robins (born 12 June 1988) is a 3 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He represented the Rollers team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Biography
Kim Robins was born on 12 June 1988. [2] He was diagnosed with a neural tube defect when he was about 12 months old. [3] In 1992, as a four-year-old, he was the poster child for a world-first education campaign run by the Telethon Kids Institute to raise awareness about the link between folate and neural tube defects. [4] He has a degree in sports science from Edith Cowan University and a master's in finance from RMIT.
Basketball
He is a 3 point player.[2] At 18, he decided to pursue wheelchair basketball over tennis. [3] He has played wheelchair basketball professionally in Perth and Europe. [3]
His international debut for the Rollers was at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany, where they won the bronze medal. His Paralympic debut with the Rollers ended with a win against Turkey for fifth place.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win/loss record of 4-4.[5][6]
References
- ↑ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- 1 2 "Kim Robins". Basketball Australia. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- 1 2 3 Heath, Nicola (9 August 2018). "How an Aussie mum and son became the face of a life-saving folate campaign". SBS. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ↑ Tomlinson, Angie (10 September 2018). "Decades of research a win for WA babies". The West Australian. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ↑ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ↑ "Rollers end Tokyo campaign fifth". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
External links
- Kim Robins at Paralympics Australia
- Basketball Australia Profile Archived 21 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine