Robin Bell

Robin Bell ( born November 16, 1977 in Cape Town ) is an Australian canoe slalom racers in one - Canadians.

Robin Bell was born in South Africa and is one of the outstanding canoe slalom racers of the 2000s. He reached in 1999 at the World Championships in La Seu d' Urgell, where he won the silver medal in his first international success. At the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney home he reached ninth. Four years later, missed the Australians in Athens in fourth place medal just barely. 2005 Bell won the gold medal at the World Championships in Penrith. It was his first World Cup victory at the same time. With the team, he missed another medal in fourth. Bell was founded in 2005 in Western Australia Athlete of the Year. At the World Championships in Prague in 2006, the canoeist reached number six. In that year, it reached number one in the world rankings.

The 2007 World Championships in Foz do Iguaçu went bad in the team competition. Australia only came in tenth place. Far better it was in the singles, where Bell won the bronze medal. The Olympia 2008 first brought winning the Ozeanienmeisterschaft in Penrith. Then he went to the games for the third time. In Beijing Bell took seventh place after the first round. In the semifinals, he improved by two places and finished fifth. In the final round he could in turn improve two places and won the bronze medal behind Michal Martikán and David Florence. So far, the Australians won three World Cups, and came five more times to second place.