Meet Rob Womack Olympic Legend
Rob Womack was born 29 May 1971, is a Paralympian track and field athlete from England competing mainly in category F55 throwing events. In 2012 he qualified as a member of the Great Britain team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and took the bronze medal in the shot put.
Rob is a paraplegic after suffering a prolapsed disc in 2003. He became involved in athletics during rehabilitation at the spinal unit at Stoke Mandeville. In 2006 he qualified for his first major tournament, representing Great Britain at the IPC Athletics World Championships, held in Assen in the Netherlands. Despite this he was not selected for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, much to his disappointment.
Rob continued to compete throughout 2009, throwing a season's best of 10.66 in the shot put and 26.14 in the discus. His results in 2010 were an improvement on the previous season, and posted a distance of 10.87 in the National Championships in Nottingham.
In 2011, Rob was part of the Great Britain team that traveled to Christchuch in New Zealand to compete in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships for the shot put. This was the first time he had represented Britain in three years, and he responded with a personal best of 10.93, leaving him in 7th place in the F54/55/56 category.
On the 7 July 2012, at a Stoke Mandeville meet, he recorded a distance in the shot of 11.01, his personal best and the first time he had thrown competitively over 11 m. The result was good enough to see Rob selected for the Great Britain team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the shot put. In the final he threw a personal best of 11.34 m to take the bronze medal.
Rob is married to Debbie, and has three children.
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