# William Robinson

> William Walker Robinson was a Scottish-born competition swimmer who represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Robinson swam in the men's 200-metre breaststroke, and came second for the silver medal with a time of 3:12.8. He was 38 years old at the time of the 1908 Olympics, and was the oldest swimmer to win a medal in Olympic history for 100 years, until the 41-year-old American Dara Torres won three silver medals at the 2008 Olympics.

*British swimmer (1870-1940); Olympic silver medallist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Athlete ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131))
- **Category:** Athletes
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1870-06-23
- **Died:** 1940-07-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 39.3

## Sources
- [Вільям Робінсон (плавець)](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C))
- [William Robinson](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson)
- [William Robinson (svømmer)](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(sv%C3%B8mmer))
- [William Robinson (Schwimmer)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(Schwimmer))
- [William Robinson (swimmer)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(swimmer))
- [William Robinson (nadador)](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(nadador))
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- [William Robinson (natation)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(natation))
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- [William Robinson (svømmer)](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(sv%C3%B8mmer))
- [William Robinson (pływak)](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(p%C5%82ywak))
- [William Robinson](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson)
- [Робинсон, Уильям Уокер](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q861695)

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