Nicholas Robinson-Baker (born 24 June 1987) is an English diver.
Robinson-Baker became interested in diving when he attended a boxing camp near
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace may refer to:
Places Canada
* Crystal Palace Complex (Dieppe), a former amusement park now a shopping complex in Dieppe, New Brunswick
* Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario
* Crystal Palace (Montreal), an exhibition building ...
and used the pool there.
He participated in the
2008 Summer Olympics, where he was placed 7th overall in the
synchronised 3m springboard event with his diving partner
Ben Swain. He has won gold, silver and bronze medals on the World Series tour, with a gold in 2009 in 3m synchro with Ben Swain at the World Series leg in Mexico. At the
2012 Summer Olympics, he partnered with
Chris Mears in the
synchronised 3 metre springboard event and came fifth. They have also won a number of gold medals at National Cup and National Championships as well as a silver at the World Series in Mexico. At the
2014 Commonwealth Games he won bronze in the 3m springboard synchro with
Freddie Woodward
Fredward Bevis Woodward (born 23 June 1995) is a British diver. He competed for England in the men's 3 metre springboard event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal with his diving partner, Nicholas Robinson-Baker. He too ...
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He retired from diving in 2014. He described languages as a life passion, and speaks Russian, Albanian, and Romanian.
References
Living people
1987 births
English divers
Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic divers for Great Britain
People from Farnborough, Hampshire
Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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