Robert Esmie

Robert Esmie
nation	Canada
birthday	5th July 1972
place of birth	Jamaica
size	175 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.10 s ( 100 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 1 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 4 × 100 m  World championships bronze Stuttgart 1993 4 × 100 m gold Gothenburg 1995 4 × 100 m gold Athens 1997 4 × 100 m Indoor world championships bronze Barcelona 1995 60 m

Robert Esmie (born July 5, 1972 in Jamaica ) is a Canadian athlete and winner of the gold medal with the 4-by-100-meter relay at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , USA .

Born in Jamaica and raised in Greater Sudbury , Ontario , Canada, Esmie formed the most successful relay quartet with Glenroy Gilbert , Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey in the mid-1990s. At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , he took 3rd place with the 4 x 100 meter relay . At the Commonwealth Games in 1994 , he won gold in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 1995 he was able to take 3rd place in the 60-meter individual sprint at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona . It was won by his compatriot and later competitor at the Olympic Games, Bruny Surin, with whom he again won gold at the World Championships in Gothenburg that same year .

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta, the Canadian team was not favored, although they had won most of the titles in recent years, because the victories had always been won in the absence of the US team. Nevertheless, the Canadians beat the US team in the final of the 4 x 100 meter relay race by almost half a second, underscoring their claim to be the best team in this discipline in the world. Esmie was not originally scheduled for the final, he only replaced Carlton Chambers the night before the race.

Esmie and his teammates took first place again two years later at the 1997 World Championships in Athens .

Web links

• Robert Esmie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• TV interview with the winning team from 1996