User:Salomon Robbins

Salomon Robbins is a former athlete who held the Mexican record in javelin throw from 1970 to 1982, and who participated in multiple national and international competitions, including the Central American and Caribbean Games, Pan-American Games, Afro-Latino Games, USA Athletics Open, and Veteran World Championships, earning his gold and bronze medals and some of the best rankings in the world.

1969 Central American and Caribbean Games, Cuba. 1st. 1969 National Athletics Open USA. 11th. 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games, Panama. 6th. 1971 Latino American Games, Guadalajara, Mexico. 1st. 1971 Central American and Caribbean Games, Kingston, Jamaica. 4th. 1971 Afro Latino Games, Mexico. 3rd. 1973 Central American and Caribbean Games, Maracaibo, Venezuela. 4th. 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 3rd. 1975 Central American and Caribbean Games, Ponce, Puerto Rico. 3rd. 1975 Pan American Games, Mexico City. 9th. 1995 XI Veterans' World Athletic Championships, Buffalo, New York. 3rd.

After retiring, Salomon became a founder of multiple schools of athletics: the Athletics School “INDE” Popotla; and the Mexican Schools of Athletics Magdalena Mixuca and Octavio Fuentes, in Mexico City, Mexico. Currently, he has plans to start the First School of Baseball Ciudad Victoria, in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Salomon has been training athletes since retiring, including at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), INDE, Mexican Olympic Sports Center (CDOM), taking some of his athletes to five Central American and Caribbean Games, and establishing the female Mexican record in javelin throw with Guadalupe Lopez early in his coaching career.

Salomon attended training clinics in Leipzig, Germany, and La Habana, Cuba, among other countries, and is widely recognized as a pillar for high performance sports in Mexico, as indicated by the Mexican Federation of Athletic Sports (FMAA) in 2006, and the National Commission for Sports in Mexico (CONADE), in 2000. These honors can be seen on his picture gallery at diamondtrainingworld.com.

Currently Salomon is the athletic coach at the University of Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria campus (UAT), where he has a lengthy record of national competitions in athletics. (www.deportes.uat.edu.mx)

B A S E B A L L and P I T C H E R S

In addition to his background in javelin, Salomon has developed an eye for potential big league pitchers. Ismael “El Rocket” Valdez was the first pitcher Salomon prepared and propelled to the major leagues. He continues to search for new talent, and as he stated one time: “… I got the technique to throw the javelin, it is not difficult for me to conscientiously prepare a pitcher”.

One of his pitchers just signed a letter of intention with the Tigres of Cancun, and another one just signed a contract with the Broncos de Reynosa team in Mexico. Salomon continues to give conditional training to professional pitchers during their off season in baseball as well.

PERSONAL LIFE Salomon married early in the seventies to Alma Rosa Gonzalez, and shares two children with her. After their divorce, and more recently, he married Hilda Nunez, with whom he remained married until her untimely death in 2011 due to cancer. She had one child.