Peter Robertson

0 Peter Robertson
at the World Championships in Lausanne, 2006
Personal information
Date of birth	17th February 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Melbourne, Australia
Nickname	Robbo
societies
successes
2000, 2002	2 × vice world champion triathlon short distance
2001-2005	3 × world champion triathlon short distance
2007, 2009	2 × Second OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships
status
Resigned in 2015

Peter Robertson (born February 17, 1976 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian triathlete . He is an Olympian (2000, 2004) and multiple triathlon world champion on the short distance (2001, 2003, 2005). He is on the best list of Australian triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Robertson was the first of four children and he started triathlon in 1992 at the age of 16.

Peter Robertson started in 2000 (34th place) and 2004 (24th place) in the Summer Olympics. In 2000 he was runner-up in Perth behind the French Olivier Marceau . He was trained by Brett Sutton .
In 2001 he became triathlon world champion on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). In 2002 he became vice world champion and in 2003 and 2005 he was able to get the world champion title again.

His nickname is "Robbo". In December 2010 he announced his retirement from professional sport - but reversed this retirement and he started in Ironman races on the long and half distance (= Ironman 70.3 ). In August 2013, he finished tenth at the European Championships on the Ironman half-distance in Wiesbaden. In 2014 he finished second here.

In his second start on the long distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) at the Ironman Cairns , he finished third in June 2014. He has not appeared internationally since 2015.

Awards

• Peter Robertson was nominated for Hall of Fame induction by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) in 2014 .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

• Profile and results of Peter Robertson in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 10, 2019 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Triathlete Peter Robertson quits (December 7, 2010)
2. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Wiesbaden: Clavel and Philipp on the podium for the first time ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 10, 2014) 
3. ^ ITU Hall of Fame
4. Jump up to the World Cup: Docherty wins, Frodeno unlucky
5. ↑ DTU press service triathlon at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )