MTB Supreme Robin Seymour Inducted into Hall of Fame

Posted in: Cross Country
By Cycling Ireland
Dec 20, 2024 - 9:06:44 AM

Cycling Ireland is pleased to present Robin Seymour
one of our 2024 Hall of Fame inductees

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Robin Seymour continues to race domestically with Team WORC

Robin represented Ireland at three different Olympic games: Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 in cross country mountain biking.

Along with being a three-time Olympian, Seymour won three consecutive UCI Masters Mountain Bike World Championships from 2016-2018, and in 2022 took a UEC European Cyclo-cross Championship in the M50s category.

On the domestic front, Seymour has taken the XC National Championship a staggering 20 times, including 15 in a row from 1993-2008 and most recently in 2014. He also has an equally astounding 18 CX National Championships, between 1991 and 2012.

Seymour continues to race domestically with Team WORC, while also playing a key part in nurturing and mentoring some of the country's best up and coming off-road riders

Following his European Championship win, Robin gave an insight into keeping motivated and staying competitive in his fifties. You can read that interview click here

This year Robin won the Masters 50 Cross Country Championships, 30 years after he won the first MTB Cross Country Championships in 1994.

A video of this years event is here...



A video of the 1994 event is here...