Robbie Taylor

Robbie Taylor
Personal information
Nationality  Canada
Born 31 March 1981
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 94 kg (207 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Cobra Swim Club (CAN)
College team Texas A&M Aggies (USA)
Coach Mel Nash (USA)

Robbie Taylor (born March 31, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and backstroke events.[1] He earned a silver medal, as a 17-year-old at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and later represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics. During his sporting career, Taylor trained for the Cobra Swim Club in Brampton, Ontario under Bill O'Toole, swam for the Texas A&M Aggies swimming and diving team under head coach Mel Nash, and swam at the Canadian National Sport Centre under legendary coach Paul Bergen.[2]

Taylor made his official worldwide debut at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he shared silver medals with Craig Hutchison, Stephen Clarke, and Garrett Pulle in the 4×100 m freestyle relay with a time of 3:21.27.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Taylor competed only in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.[3] Teaming with Hutchison, Rick Say and Yannick Lupien in heat three, Taylor swam the second leg and recorded a split of 50.89, but the Canadians came up short to fifth place and thirteenth overall in a final time of 3:21.98.[4][5]

Taylor also sought his bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the Canadian Olympic Trials, he posted an identical time of 55.53 to share gold medals with Jake Tapp in the 100 m backstroke, but missed a chance to snatch his bid from a head-to-head battle in a swimoff.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Robbie Taylor". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Miller, Troy (28 January 2002). "Horns top A&M in pool". The Battalion. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 4×100m Freestyle Relay Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 4×100m Freestyle Relay Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 336. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Four-year wait til next Olympics spurs Tapp in 100m backstroke duel". The Edmonton Journal (Canada.com). 4 April 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  7. ↑ "3 more Canadian swim records fall at trials". CBC Sports. 4 April 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2013.

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