Glen Robinson (water polo)
British water polo player (born 1989)
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Glen Robinson (born 26 January 1989) is a British water polo player.[1][2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Great Britain men's national water polo team in the men's event. He is 6-foot-2-inch (1.88 m) inches tall.
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| Born | 26 January 1989 Kendal, Great Britain | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Robinson began his career with Kendal, originally swimming with future Olympic water polo player Chloe Wilcox.[3] Robinson later moved to play for Lancaster where he was selected for England's junior squad, helping them to a Home Nations tournament win in 2006. Following this, he was invited to join the Great Britain junior squad and travelled to a tournament in Canada.[4]
In 2008, he scored against Spain to take Britain into the European Junior Championships.[5]
In 2010, he relocated to Romania where he played for CS Rapid București. He later represented German club SV Würzburg 05.[6]
He was selected for Great Britain's 2012 Olympic squad. He described the experience as his "pinnacle achievement".[7]
In 2014, he was part of England's gold medal winning squad for the 2014 edition of the Commonwealth Water Polo Championships.[8]
In 2015, he was again playing for Lancaster Water Polo Club[9] and was still there by 2018.[10]
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