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BBC Sport

Rob has covered a variety of major events on BBC 1 and BBC 2, including:

  • 2008 Olympic Games as the BBC’s sailing reporter
  • Football World Cup
  • World Snooker Championships
  • World Athletics Championships
  • World Cross Country Championships
  • World Rowing Championships
  • Paralympics

Rob Walker reporting; © Laura Watts

At the 2008 Olympic Games, Rob was in Qingdao working as the BBC's man on the water following the British sailors. His enthusiastic live interviews and reporting brought sailing to life for the audience watching at home, and captured the mood of the Games.

For the 2009 World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, Rob's role as tournament MC was expanded to include live post-match interviews and presenting a new daily highlights show called Snooker on the Red.

He has also presented Guinness Premiership Rugby highlights on BBC 2 and works as a live on-course reporter for both the London Marathon and the Great North Run.

Channel 4

Rob started presenting and commentating for Channel 4 in 2007 when he was chosen to front a new show - Triathlon - which is now enjoying its third series. In the spring of 2009, he was asked to present a series entitled Destination 2012, focusing on some of Britain's Olympic stars of the future. Channel 4 is now also utilising his athletics expertise on another series called The McCain Young Athletes Show.

ITV Sport

After seeing him working on the Olympics for the BBC, ITV Sport approached Rob, and he has now done both live and recorded reporting for ITV 4 and ITV 1. Live boxing shows involve Rob taking on a backstage roving reporter role. In March 2009, Rob was one of the Boat Race reporters

Setanta Sports

From 2007-2009, Rob worked as Setanta's live ringside boxing reporter. The role took him to world title fights across the UK and Germany, and included covering two of Joe Calzaghe's last world title fights at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and in Las Vegas.