Peter Robertson

Peter John Robertson, born on 17 February 1976 in Melbourne and known as Robbo, is an Australian triathlete who entered his first triathlon at sixteen with friends and was hooked. He raced in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing thirty-fourth in 1:51:39.04, and returned in 2004 to place twenty-fourth in 1:55:44.36. In 2005, racing in Gamagori, Japan, he won his third ITU World Championship, and he has also placed second at the world championships twice. He shared the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year award with Robin Bell in 2005. He took the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and later that year finished sixth at the world championships, one second ahead of the American Hunter Kemper, while Tim Don denied him a record-equalling fourth world title.