Robert Heffernan

Robert "Rob" Heffernan (born 28 February 1978) is an Irish race walker.
Career
At the 2000 Olympics he finished in 38th place, and at the 2004 Olympics he was disqualified, both in the 20 km race walking discipline.
At the 2008 Olympic Games he improved, coming eighth in the 20km Walk. His wife Marian Andrews is also national women's 400 metres champion and was on the Irish women's team that finished 4th in the European indoors. On 27 July 2010, Heffernan won the bronze medal in the 2010 European Athletics Championships in the 20 kilometres walk, posting a time of 1:21:00 (achieved retrospectively in 2014 after Russian Stanislav Emelyanov was found to have committed an anti-doping violation).He also finished 4th in the 50km walk in a national record time of 3:45:30.This was an amazing achievement due to the fact it was just 3 days after the 20 km event.
At the 2012 Olympics, Heffernan finished ninth in the 20km race. A week later...