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Amy Williams talks to Sportsvibe
Bath’s skeleton golden girl Amy Williams recently celebrated one-year since winning her gold medal at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Amy, who does her land-baesed training at the University of Bath, spoke to the website sportsvibe.co.uk, telling them how she got into skeleton, about that amazing victory and what she...
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Spence wins silver at World Cup 1
University of Bath graduate Mhairi Spence made a stunning start to the modern pentathlon season by winning silver at the opening World Cup of the year in Palm Springs, the USA on Saturday. Spence captured the second World Cup medal of her career in a performance that was only bettered by...
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Kim collects gold and silver to help University women to fourth
Sport and Exercise Science student Kim Murray collected gold and silver medals to help the University of Bath women’s team to fourth place overall at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Indoor Athletics Championships. Murray was in impressive form in the long jump, producing the best jump of the qualifiers...
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Clarke heading to European Indoor Championships
University of Bath-based hurdler Lawrence Clarke was today (Tuesday) named in the 32-strong Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at next month’s European Indoor Championships in Paris. Clarke will contest the 60m hurdles at the championships a week before his 21st birthday. Clarke trains at the University of Bath...
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GB internationals due to lead BUCS challenge
Senior Great Britain internationals Danny Talbot and Sophie Skinner will feature for the University of Bath in this weekend’s British Universities and Colleges Sports (BUCS) Indoor Athletics Championships. Sports Performance student Talbot represented Great Britain at last month’s Aviva International in Glasgow, finishing third over 200m and then ran a pb...
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Semi-finals for Coles
University of Bath student Chris Coles reached the semi-final of the men’s doubles competition at the weekend’s English National Badminton Championships. The 18-year-old Sports Performance student reached the semis partnering Matt Nottingham before going down 21-10, 21-17 to the more experienced number two seeds Chris Adcock and Andy Ellis. Coles (pictured), who...
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Rachel heads Team Bath challenge at English Nationals
Rachel Howard will head the Team Bath challenge at this weekend’s English National Badminton Championships in Manchester. Howard, a University of Bath Psychology graduate who trains at the University, is seeded two in the women’s singles. Top seed is Liz Cann, the bronze medallist at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. “Rachel has...
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Amy Williams’ Olympic gold – one year on
Bath’s golden girl Amy Williams carved out a slice of history a year ago tomorrow (19 February) by striking skeleton gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Her stunning performances produced not only Team GB’s only medal of the Games but also made Amy Britain’s first individual Olympic Winter Games...
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Miller starts against the French
University of Bath student Sam Miller will start the game for the England Students rugby union team tonight (Friday) as they take-on their French counterparts. The winger is studying Politics with International Relations at the University. Fly half Paul Roberts, who is studying Politics with Economics, will be on the bench for...
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Seventh place for Nartey
Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey secured a seventh place finish for Ghana at the Budapest World Cup at the weekend. Nartey won his opening three preliminary round contests in the under-73kg competition before losing to Japan’s Yasuhiro Awano, who went on to win bronze. That put Nartey through to the...
