Athletics - Robert Crowther

Australian Sports Commission

Biography

DOB: 02/08/1987
Cloncurry, Queensland
Australia

Robbie won the 2006 World Junior Championships long jump and followed up this victory a year later with a victory in the Wolrd University Games.

Questions & Answers

  • 1

    What is your most significant achievement in sport?

    Getting a scholarship at the AIS, which helped me to become the Long Jump Junior World Champion with an 8m jump at the 2006 World Junior Championships in China in August.

  • 2

    What is your major sporting goal?

    Going to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and winning a medal.

  • 3

    What keeps you busy outside sport?

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Australia is one of only two nations to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games

Quick numbers

700 Athlete scholarships are offered annually at the AIS
40 Thousand kilometres were swum by Petria Thomas whilst at the AIS
1 million people visit the AIS each year