Iain Roberts

Iain Roberts ( born May 16, 1979 in Lichfield ) is a New Zealand skeleton bob.

Iain Roberts began in 2003 with Skeleton and heard for the following year for the national team of New Zealand. He lives in Edinburgh and is coached by Bruce Sandford and John Scott. His first international race made ​​the starting for New Zealand Briton in January 2004 at a skeleton World Cup race in Lillehammer, he finished 38th. Just one month later, he raced in Koenigssee in his first skeleton World Cup and was ranked 33 in the following season he was used primarily in the skeleton and in the European Cup Skeleton America's Cup. In Lake Placid, he reached his eighth first result in the top ten. In the Universiade 2005 in Igls, he came on the 17th Place. In January 2006, Roberts won his first World Cup point as 30th in St. Moritz. In the 2006/07 season he reached rank 27 in Calgary his best ever placing. The following season, he started in the European Cup, then he drove ( tenth in the standings ) in the newly created Skeleton Intercontinental and the America's Cup, where Roberts in Calgary achieved his best result with second place. Roberts is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Astrophysics.