Rob stands smiling with a snowy mountain behind him wearing a baseball cap and a ski jacket

Rob Poth

Para Alpine Skiing

Region

Potters Bar
Date of Birth

07/08/1997
Classification

Guide

Guide Rob Poth and Neil Simpson claimed ParalympicsGB’s first medal of Milano Cortina 2026 with silver in the men’s super combined event.

Sitting in fourth place after the Super-G run in the morning, Simpson, with guide Rob Poth, produced the best time of the slalom run to jump into the silver medal position. The pair also finished just outside the medals in fourth place in the Super G earlier in the Games.

Rob joined the GB Snowsport team as a ski guide for visually impaired athletes in 2022 following an impressive junior and senior career as an Alpine skier, which included representing Great Britain at World Junior Championships and twice being crowned British Slalom National champion.

Rob began skiing at the age of three, and in 2009 was selected to the Great Britain Children’s ski race team where he excelled - his numerous successes included victory at the FIS ‘Ski Interkriterium’ Slalom in the Czech Republic - the first Brit to do so in over 20 years.

Rob competed at Europea Cup level as well as on the World Cup stage before taking on the role of ski guide to visually impaired Beijing 2022 champion Neil Simpson. At the 2023 World Championships the pair won three medals including gold in the Super-G.

In the 2024-25 season Neil and Rob won the Giant Slalom at the World Cup in Courchevel, France before going on to finish fifth in the Giant Slalom at the Para Alpine World Championships.

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