Michael Robertson (born December 19, 1983, in

Plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

) is a male

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

from the

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. He competes in the men's

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

. Robertson set his personal best in the discus throw event (65.61 metres) in

Denton, Texas Denton is a city in and the county seat of Denton County, Texas, United States. With a population of 139,869 as of 2020, it is the 27th-most populous city in Texas, the 197th-most populous city in the United States, and the 12th-most populous ...

on April 24, 2008.

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1983 births Living people American male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Sportspeople from Plantation, Florida Track and field athletes from Florida Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games {{US-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)