Robin Surgeoner
British swimmer (born 1963)
Robin Hugh Surgeoner (born 13 July 1963) is a British retired swimmer. He won nine gold medals across three Paralympic Games competing as a British Paralympian in C4 events. Surgeoner was one of the original members of the British Paralympic Association committee. He now works as a swim coach, as an inclusion empowerment consultant and musician.
Athletic career
Born in England with hereditary spastic paraplegia, Surgeoner was introduced to the pool through hydrotherapy and took to swimming at an early age. He found that he could keep pace with able-bodied children of the same age in swimming galas in Hong Kong, before the family returned to England in 1974 in time for him to attend secondary school. He joined the Rushmore Mallards, a local swimming group. Soon after, Surgeoner found success in the National Junior championships in Stoke Mandeville.
With the 1984 Paralympic Games being jointly hosted by the United States and the United Kingdom Surgeoner competed in numerous events. He won gold medals at three different distances in the C4 freestyle and a further gold in the 50 m backstroke.
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