Background
Tobin was born Robert John Tobin the youngest of two children born to Jacqueline (née Chidlow) and John Tobin.
Tobin was born Robert John Tobin the youngest of two children born to Jacqueline (née Chidlow) and John Tobin.
He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds. In 2009 in the World Athletic Championships in Berlin, he was part of the silver medal-winning 4x400 relay team He has been to two Olympic Games (Athens and Beijing).
With Beijing bringing back his best performance 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 Hampshire Athletic Club.
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. 2010 saw him picking up two medals a silver in the European Athletics Championships and a bronze at the Commonwealth Games.
