Kim Robins
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Australia |
| Born | 12 June 1988 Perth, Australia |
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in) |
| Sport | |
| Position | Guard |
| Disability class | 3.0 |
| Club | Be Active Perth Wheelcats |
Medal record | |
Kim Robins (born 12 June 1988) is a 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He represented the Rollers team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]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 Masters in Finance from RMIT.
Basketball
[edit]He is a 3 point player.[2] At 18, he decided to pursue wheelchair basketball over tennis.[3] A deciding factor was that it was a team sport. “All my friends played, and Western Australia has a long history of producing exceptional wheelchair basketball athletes at an international level.”[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
[edit]- ^ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Kim Robins". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d 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. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
