Robyn Meagher of Mulgrave is one of Nova Scotia’s most decorated track and field athletes. Twice an Olympic athlete, (3000 metres in Barcelona in 1992 and 5000 meters in Atlantic in 1996), Meagher was the National Junior Champion for the 1500 metres in 1984 and 1985 and Canadian Indoor Champion for the 1,500 metres in 1990. She won gold in the 3000 meters at the 1992 Canadian Olympic Trials and a gold at the 1992 World Cross Country Trials.

Meagher’s prominent journey began in Mulgrave and encompassed a track career that saw the dedicated runner represent Canada on the national and world stage. Twice, Meagher wore the Canadian colours at the Olympic Games. She competed in the 3,000m race at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain and four years later represented Canada in the 5,000m race at the Olympics in Atlanta. Meagher, in 1994, was the silver medallist at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

The middle distance runner reached the podium at numerous Canadian track and field championships as well. Meagher captured the Canadian Junior 1,500m title in both 1984 and 1985 and garnered a silver medal at the Pan Am Junior Championships in the Bahamas in 1984. Her numerous achievements were earned throughout the world, including the Francophone Games in Morocco in 1989 where she raced to a silver medal.

Meagher also displayed her talents at track venus in England, Wales, New Zealand, Germany, USA, China, and Spain. Meagher fondly recalls the thrill of competing on her first junior national team and the pride of wearing the Canadian singlet. Known for her humility, Meagher began her running career as an 11-year-old. Antigonish coach Bernie Chisholm, a 2004 inductee into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in the Builder category, coached Meagher during her teenage years until the runner left to attent to University of Victoria.

Meagher, according to Chisholm, exhibited a love of running from the outset and had a fire-in-her-eyes, no-quit attitude. She demonstrated the ability to rise to the occasion throughout her career. Meagher is one of the most decorated University of Victoria runners of all time, helping the team capture back-to-back Canadian Interuniversity Sport cross-country championships (1986, 1987), while also securing a gold medal in the CIS 1,500m race. She was a member of the 4 x 800m relay team that won a CIS gold in record time. The record still stands today.

In 2007, she was inducted into the University of Victoria’s Sport Hall of Fame. Chisholm contends that Meagher, the holder of eight Nova Scotia records, is the most successful track athlete Nova Scotia has produced in the last 50 years.