Monique Robins
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Monique Rachelle Robins |
| National team |
 New Zealand |
| Born |
25 September 1983 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke |
| College team | Takapuna Swim Club |
| Coach | Brett Naylor |
Monique Rachelle Robins (born 25 September 1983) is a New Zealand former swimmer, who specialised in sprint freestyle and backstroke events.[1] She represented New Zealand, as the youngest swimmer of the team (aged 16), at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and also formerly played for Takapuna Swim Club under her personal coach and mentor Brett Naylor.[2]
Robins competed only in two swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved FINA B-standards of 56.72 (100 m freestyle) and 1:03.72 (100 m backstroke) from the NZ Olympic Trials in Auckland.[3][4] On the second day of the Games, Robins placed twenty-sixth in the 100 m backstroke. Swimming in heat three, she held off Ukraine's Nadiya Beshevli to pick up a third seed by 14-hundredths of a second in 1:04.52.[5][6] Three days later, in the 100 m freestyle, Robins challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Finland's 15-year-old Hanna-Maria Seppälä and Egypt's three-time Olympian Rania Elwani. She faded down the stretch on the final to take a sixth seed and thirty-third overall in 57.85, just 1.13 seconds below her entry standard and 1.5 behind leader Elwani.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ "Monique Robins". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ↑ McFadden, Suzanne (3 June 2000). "Swimming: Tadpole Robins hatches into Olympic swimmer". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 292. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ↑ "Dolan breaks own world mark in 400 IM". Canoe.ca. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 175. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ↑ "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 100m Freestyle)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming: Robins and Talbot-Cameron eliminated". New Zealand Herald. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2013.