“Once I noticed that, I actually wished to offer {that a} go. In order that’s after I first tried out with wheelchair racing.”
Fellow Scot Kinghorn is a three-time world champion and the 30-year-old received Paralympic gold within the T53 100m class in Paris two years in the past.
“Wheelchair racing gives a lot in the way in which of challenges, targets and ambitions,” Robertson instructed. “I by no means was aggressive, nevertheless it was after I grew to become injured that I acquired the problem.
“I assumed, ‘oh, I wish to see what I can do wheelchair racing’. I have never regarded again since. I’ve executed numerous highway races after which challenged the monitor work.
“My coach, Philip Owens, has been maintaining me heading in the right direction. It has been an amazing journey.
“I’ve been doing numerous the marathon races the place I went and competed within the London Marathon, Shanghai Marathon. I competed overseas in Switzerland fairly a number of instances. This yr, we had been down in Australia for his or her summer season, which was unbelievable.
“I am very privileged and fortunate to have the ability to do the game that I like full-time as effectively.”
She says representing her homeland in Scotland this yr shall be a profession spotlight, with Robertson chosen together with compatriots and fellow wheelchair racers Sean Body and Ben Sandilands.
“It is such a prideful second to have the ability to placed on the colors of your private home and to characterize your homeland,” Robertson stated. “It was an enormous day for me after I acquired that vest.
“To have my family and friends so shut by as effectively and cheering us on. It would at all times give that further push as effectively that each athlete wants.
“We’re ramping up the coaching, ensuring we have got a great deal of the sprints and the velocity endurance in there as effectively and aiming for gold if we are able to.
“That is the plan. Is it real looking? Oh, we’ll make it real looking.”
Previous to turning into a full-time athlete, Robertson labored for the charity Spinal Harm Scotland.
“I wished to assist help those that are newly injured as a result of it is an entire new world for individuals,” she stated. “I hope now I could be the inspiration that I wanted after I was first injured and after I was first moving into the game.
“I hope to offer again what I gained from the opposite prime athletes.”