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Дональд Робинсон (родился 17 июня 1983 года в Напе, Калифорния , [1] США ) - американский профессиональный гонщик велосипедного мотокросса (BMX) из «Новой / Текущей школы», чьи лучшие соревновательные годы приходятся на 1999 год по настоящее время. Его прозвище «dR», его инициалы. Использование строчной буквы «d» для его имени, возможно, связано с его относительно маленькими физическими размерами. Прошлое прозвище «Худощавый» определенно было связано с его маленьким ростом, поскольку даже в очень юном возрасте он был самым маленьким ребенком в своей возрастной группе. Его подарил ему Брюс Минтон. [2] Как и предшественники BMX Майк Миранда и Эрик Руп , Робинсон - набожный христианин.[3][4] В конце 2013 года он признался, что за свою карьеру получил как минимум 25 сотрясений мозга . В том же интервью он выступал за лучший протокол сотрясения мозга на более низких уровнях гонок BMX. Робинсон вошел в совет директоров коллаборации с сотрясением мозга The Knockout Project в январе 2013 года [5].

25 июня 2008 года Майк Кинг , тренер олимпийской сборной США по BMX в 2008 году, выбрал Робинсона , чтобы представлять США вместе с товарищами по команде Джилл Кинтнер , Майком Дэй и Кайлом Беннеттом на соревнованиях по BMX на летних Олимпийских играх 2008 года в Пекине . Его олимпийская мечта была реализована, по крайней мере частично, когда он занял третье место на летних Олимпийских играх, выиграв бронзовую медаль, выполнив маневр, в котором Сифисо Нхлапо выиграл почти половину поля. Поскольку это был дебют этого вида спорта, а финал среди мужчин проводился после женских, он стал третьим американцем и шестым человеком в общем зачете, выигравшим олимпийскую медаль в гонках BMX. Джилл Кинтнер выиграла бронзовую медаль; Майк Дэй выиграл серебряную медаль . Кайл Беннетт финишировал шестым в своем полуфинале и в результате не прошел в финал. Донни Робинсон объявил о завершении карьеры на чемпионате США по BMX Grand Nationals 2016 года.

Вехи гоночной карьеры [ править ]

Примечание. Если не указано иное, профессиональные новички проходят на национальном уровне.

* В НБЛ «B» Pro / Super Class / «A» Pro / Junior Elite Men в зависимости от эпохи; в ABA это "A" Pro.
** В НБЛ это «AA» Pro / Elite Men; в ABA это "AA" Pro.

Карьерные фабрики и спонсоры крупных веломагазинов [ править ]

Примечание. В этом списке указаны только основные спонсоры гонщика. В любой момент у гонщика может быть множество постоянно меняющихся спонсоров. Основное спонсорство может быть подтверждено освещением BMX в прессе и рекламными объявлениями спонсоров в данный момент. По возможности указываются точные даты.

Любитель [ править ]

  • Колесный спорт США: 1989-1991 гг.
  • CFC Racing: 1992 - декабрь 1994
  • Гипервелосипеды: декабрь 1994 г. - конец 1995 г.
  • Powerlite Industries: конец 1995 г. - декабрь 2001 г .; Робинсон стал профессионалом с этим спонсором.

Профессиональный [ править ]

  • Powerlite Industries: конец 1995 г. - декабрь 2001 г.
  • Fly Racing / Staats Bicycles: декабрь 2001 г. - декабрь 2002 г.
  • Factory Phantom / Avent Cycles / Fly Racing: декабрь 2002 - 2004 гг.
  • Avent / Bombshell / Fly Racing: 2004-2005 гг.
  • Formula Bicycle Company / HP: февраль 2006 г. - декабрь 2007 г.
  • Hewlett-Packard / AT&T: январь 2008 г. - 23 марта 2008 г.
  • Гипервелосипеды: 24 марта 2008 г. - 8 февраля 2013 г. [9]

Карьерные названия веломотокросса [ править ]

Note: Listed are district, state/provincial/department, regional, national, and international titles in italics. Only sanctioning bodies that existed during the racer's career(s) are listed. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win national titles. Series and one-off championships are also listed in block.

Amateur/Junior Men[edit]

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 1996 13 Expert NAG No. 1

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 1993 California District 4 (CA-04) No. 1
  • 1994 11 Boys Northern California State Champion
  • 1995 12 Expert World Cup Champion
  • 1996 13 Expert National Age Group (NAG) No.1
  • 1996 13 Expert Grandnational Champion
  • 1997 14 Expert NAG No. 1
  • 1998 15 Expert Race of Champions (ROC) Champion.
  • 1998 15 Expert NAG No. 1
  • 1999 16 Expert NAG No. 1
  • 1999 16 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
  • 2000 17 Expert and 17 Cruiser NAG No. 1
  • 2001 18 Expert World Cup Champion
  • 2001 18 Expert NAG No. 1

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2001 Junior Men & Junior Cruiser World Champion

*See Professional section.

USA Cycling

  • None

Note: USA Cycling's BMX program did not exist prior to 2007.

Professional/Elite Men[edit]

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 2005 National No.1 Pro Cruiser
  • 2006 Elite Men Grand National Champion
  • 2006 National No.1 Pro

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 2003 Pro Cruiser Grandnational Champion
  • 2004 World Cup Pro Time-Trial Champion.
  • 2006 National No. 1 Pro Cruiser

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (defunct. FIAC did not have a strictly professional division during its existence).

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2006 UCI/NBL North American Champion
  • 2006 Supercross World Cup Elite Men's Champion
  • 2006 Elite Men's Cruiser World Champion
  • 2008 Elite Men Supercross World Cup Champion
  • 2009 Elite Men Gold Medal World Champion
  • 2009 Elite Men Gold Medal Continental Series Champion

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC had been holding joint world championship events as a transitional phase in merging, which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season, the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger, and both ceased to exist as independent entities, being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1997 world championships held in Brighton, England, the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.

USA Cycling

  • 2007 Elite Men National No. 1 Pro†
  • On June 14, 2008 Robinson came in second at the Olympic trials at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. Mike Day won the event with 35 points, winning two of the three runs of motos out of a scheduled four. This race format had seven racers participating in hopes of winning an automatic place on the USA BMX Olympic Team (Bubba Harris, who intended to compete, withdrew after breaking his right ankle in practice the previous Thursday). Robinson's 21 points from winning the second moto placed him in second but mathematically eliminated the possibility of overtaking Day in the winner-take-all format. As a result, the scheduled fourth moto was canceled, given concerns about racer safety (no need to endanger Day, given the potential of injury on the track, when other competitors had nothing to gain). However, Robinson was the top-ranked BMXer in the world and did well on the UCI and USA Cycling circuits, making him a much-speculated-upon choice for the fourth spot on the team, which was to be filled at the discretion of the team coach, Mike King. On June 25, 2008, that expectation was realized, and he was selected, joining Jill Kintner, Mike Day, and Kyle Bennett on the USA BMX Olympic Team.[10]

†This is USA Cycling's inaugural national title award as a sanctioning body in the discipline of Bicycle Motocross. Robinson won the Elite Men's title on June 9, 2007, in Waterford Oaks, Michigan. Krystal Hime won for Elite women.[11] This Championship was held under UCI rules and skill classifications as opposed to the UCI affiliated and USA Cycling owned NBL.[12]

International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008 Summer Olympics)
USA BMX Teammates Kyle Bennett, Mike Day, Jill Kintner
Discipline: Men's BMX
Location: Laoshan BMX Field Beijing, China
Number of competitors: 32
Positions:
Event Results Wednesday, August 20
Men's First Seeding Run‡:36.810sec
Men's Second Seeding Run: 36.868sec
Seconds behind leader: +1.118sec (24th place)
Seeding run leader: Mike Day  United States
Robinson advances to quarter-finals†
Men's quarter-finals (Overall after three motos Run 1): Third place. Qualifies for semi-finals
Event Results Thursday, August 21
Postponed due to rain. Rescheduled.
Event Results Friday, August 22
Men's semi-finals (Overall after three motos Run 1*): Third place. Qualifies for finals.
Semi-final winner (Run 1): Mike Day  United States
Men's final (Medal Round; one run of Main): Third place, Bronze Medal.
Silver Medal winner:** Mike Day  United States
Gold Medal winner:** Māris Štrombergs  Latvia
‡Time Trial data from nbcolympics.com
†quarter-finals data from nbcolympics.com
*semi-finals data from nbcolympics.com
**Final (Medal round) data from nbcolympics.com

Independent Pro Series Championships and Invitational Races

  • 2006 International BMX Championships “Summer Festival”¥ Champion.

¥This race is a tribute to the memory of the late Mario Soto held every year in his home town of Bogotá, Colombia, and is called International BMX Championships “Summer Festival”. It is a professionals-only invitational race in which top pros are invited to participate. The first of these annual two-day events was held in 2003.

BMX product lines[edit]

  • "dR" Signature Series FLY Racing "Powercurve" Handlebars (2002–2007)[13]
  • "dR" Signature Series Avent Complete bicycles (2004 & 2005)

Notable accolades[edit]

  • In 1996 he was named as one of "The 10 Hottest Amateurs" and future top Pro BMXers by BMX Plus![14]
  • He is a winner of the 2006 RideBMX Number One Rider Award (NORA)[15]
  • He won the 2006 BMXer Golden Crank Pro of the Year award.[16]

Significant injuries[edit]

  • Broke thumb at the 1997 ABA Fall Nationals (Day 1) in late October, 1997. He was laid up for approximately eight weeks.[17]
  • Crashed hard enough to bruise two ribs and split his helmet apart during his 15 Expert quarter-finals at the 1999 ABA Spring Nationals in Santa Clara, California.[18]
  • Partially separated ACL in his shoulder early in 2002.[19]
  • Dislocated his right wrist and broke his left thumb in April 2002 at the ABA U.S. Nationals in Tulare, California. Surgery was required to fix the ligaments in his wrist.[20][21] He was laid up for six months. The first race after his return to the sport was the ABA Grandnational on November 30, 2002, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[22]

Racing traits and habits[edit]

  • Robinson is aerophobic. Also his confidence is much greater when he is on the bike than off. He first spoke to his girlfriend when he was on his bike, admitting he never could if he did not have it with him.[1]

Post BMX career[edit]

Robinson officially retired from competitive BMX racing after the 2016 USA BMX Grand Nationals. He is still very active in the sport, promoting BMX racing, coaching, and developing grassroots BMX leagues.

Personal life[edit]

Robinson wed girlfriend Tiffany Lei Glenn in a ceremony in Napa, Calif., on November 14, 2009. In addition to BMX racing, Robinson has aspirations to be a Broadway theater actor/dancer/singer. He sang in his middle school choir. He went on "tour" with his now-wife performing at schools and fairgrounds.[23]

BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles[edit]

  • "1993 District Number Ones" American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51 One of many mini biographes of the ABA district champions of 1993.
  • "The Fabulous Five" Snap BMX Magazine May 2001 Vol.8 Iss.5 No.55 pg.63 One of five short articles with five racers including Bubba Harris, Ian Stoffel, Brandon Nicholls, and Clint Gower.
  • Donny Robinson" Transworld BMX November 2001 Vol.8 Iss.11 No.61 pg.71 A brief interview about doubling at the 2001 UCI World Championships in Men's Junior 20" and Cruiser.
  • "Beijing Bound" The Napa Valley Register September 14, 2007
  • "Small man, big plan: American Donny Robinson has eyes on BMX gold" Associated Press, USA Today December 25, 2007.

BMX magazine covers[edit]

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career(s) are listed unless specifically noted.

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

  • None

BMX Plus!:

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

Twenty BMX:

Moto Mag:

  • None

BMX World:

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under two names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under three names):

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b nbcolympics.com athlete's bio page.
  2. ^ a b c d American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51
  3. ^ fitness.families.com article
  4. ^ Christian Athlete Profile - Donny Robinson's Faith.
  5. ^ http://theknockoutproject.org/wp/?p=806 The Knockout Project.org BOD announcement
  6. ^ Sponsorhouse.com profile under "How I got started".
  7. ^ bmxtreme article. Word search for "Abbotsford" (without quotation marks).
  8. ^ nbcolympics.com 2008 biography
  9. ^ March 25, 2008 BMXNews.com press release
  10. ^ wtopnews.com June 25, 2008, article.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Article of Robinson's win of USA Cycling's first BMX national No.1 award
  12. ^ BMX News article on the subject.[permanent dead link]
  13. ^ Transworld BMX November 2002 Vol.9 Iss.11 No.73 pg.27
  14. ^ BMX Plus! December 1996 Vol.19 No.12 pg.77
  15. ^ Sponsorhouse image of Donny Robinson's acceptance speech of the NORA Cup.
  16. ^ bmxtra.com News article. Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ Snap January/February 1998 Vol. 5 Iss. 1 No. 20 pg. 37
  18. ^ Snap BMX Magazine September 1999 Vol.7 Iss. 6 No. 35 pg. 66
  19. ^ Transworld BMX August 2002 Vol. 9 Iss. 8 No. 70
  20. ^ Transworld BMX August, 2002, Vol. 9 Iss. 8 No. 70
  21. ^ EXPN.com bio profile.
  22. ^ Moto Mag January/February Vol. 2 No. 3 pg. 18
  23. ^ nbcolympic.com 2008 biography

External links[edit]

  • The American Bicycle Association (ABA) Website.
  • The National Bicycle League (NBL) Website.
  • "NBL Profile". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
  • "Martijnscherpen.com Interview". Archived from the original on 2007-09-09. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
  • Associated Press article printed in USA Today on December 25, 2007: "Small man, big plan: American Donny Robinson has eyes on BMX gold"
  • ""Beijing Bound" The Napa Valley Register September 14, 2007, newspaper article". Archived from the original on September 24, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2008.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  • ""Concussions Threatening BMX Racer's Career" on "ATLX TV" on November 14, 2013, online article". Archived from the original on January 26, 2014. Retrieved January 25, 2014.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)