, Ireland

Ireland

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) is a professional Mountain bike racer and cyclo cross racer

Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...

 that rides for the WORC (Wicklow Off Road Club) team. Seymour is a former Motorbike racer that turned to cycling. Seymour has dominated Mountain biking

Mountain biking

Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.Mountain biking can...

 and cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross

Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...

 in Ireland and has been Irish Mountain bike champion 14 times consecutively between 1993 and 2007 and 15 times the Irish cyclo-cross champion. Between 1991 and 2008, Seymour was beaten only twice in the Irish cyclo-cross championships and that was by Roger Aiken in the 2004/05 season and then the 2007/08 season.

Seymour has been the principal rider for earning UCI points so that the Irish National Mountain cycling team could get a place at the 1996

1996 Summer Olympics

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, 2000

2000 Summer Olympics

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 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games in the Mountain Bike competition. Seymour has been an Olympian at the 2000 Sydney Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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 and 2004 Athens Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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 as well as representing Ireland at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. In the cyclo cross and mountain bike disciplines, Seymour dominates the Irish calendar and also competes World Cup mountain bike and cyclo cross races. Robin’s father Geoff is involved in cycling in Ireland and has organized the National Mountain Bike championships in 2004 as well as being the Irish National team manager for the International Mountain bike events. In 2005, Seymour together with fellow Irish Olympian Tarja Owens competed in and won the mixed category event of the seven day 2005 TransRockies Challenge. The two person team that Seymour and Owens rode under was called Podge and Rodge whether this team name was due to possible sponsorship by the famous Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 television puppets Podge and Rodge

Podge and Rodge

Pádraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy are the two central characters on A Scare at Bedtime, an Irish adult comedy televised puppet show. Created and performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara, more recently, the brothers have presented The Podge and Rodge Show, a chat show in...

 or whether it was just due to the humorous name is unknown.

Palmares

• 1st Buyukada Cup, Turkey 2007
• 2nd Portugal Cup XCO Porto des Mos, Portugal 2007 MTB Champion 17 times (1993-2010) National Cyclo-cross Champion
  Irish National Cycling Championships
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  17 times (1991-2003, 2005-2006, 2011)
• 1st "Olympic" Circuit, Greece 2004