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Medals for Pengilly and Type
British sliders Adam Pengilly and Chris Type both won medals at the penultimate round of the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup in Calgary, Canada. Pengilly took silver – his second in successive days in Intercontinental Cup competitions on the same track – with Type winning bronze. Gold went to John...
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Amy just misses medals in St Moritz
Team Bath's Amy Williams fininshed just outside the medals in the penultimate round of the 2009/10 Skeleton World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland today (Friday). Williams finished in fourth place, just 0.27 seconds away from bronze medal position. Williams, silver medallist at last season's World Championships, remains fifth in...
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Brits secure bronze medal and two top-six spots in opening round of Skeleton World Cup
Britain’s sliders made a strong start to their 2009/10 Skeleton World Cup campaign with a bronze medal and fourth and sixth place finishes in Park City, the USA yesterday (Thursday). Kristan Bromley, a double Olympian and Britain’s 2008 World and European Champion, took bronze in the men’s competition. He moved...
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100 days to go to Vancouver 2010
With 100 days to go to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Britain’s top skeleton sliders are getting to grips with the track that will host the skeleton competition at the Games. The 2010 Olympic Winter Games get underway 100 days from today on 12 February, with the...
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Six-strong GB team prepare for World Cup challenge
British Skeleton has named a six-strong team to compete on the World Cup circuit for the first part of the 2009/10 season – a season that culminates in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Shelley Rudman, Britain’s Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games silver medallist, and Amy Williams, silver...
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Amy and Adam win TeamBath Athlete of the Month awards
Skeleton sliders Amy Williams and Adam Pengilly are the latest winners of the Team Bath Athlete of the Month awards, which are supported by the Fat Face store in Bath. Amy and Adam both produced outstanding performances to win silver medals for Great Britain at the 2009 Skeleton...
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Pengilly wins GB’s second Skeleton World Champs silver medal
Adam Pengilly produced an outstanding performance to win Great Britain’s second silver medal of the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid. Pengilly’s silver today (Saturday) came just over 24 hours after team-mate Amy Williams struck silver in the women’s competition. Both athletes train at the University of...
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Williams wins Skeleton World Championship silver
Britain’s Amy Williams produced a stunning final run to win the silver medal at the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, the USA this afternoon (Friday). The 26-year-old from Bath went into the fourth and last run today in fourth place – just 0.07 seconds off the bronze...
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Williams fourth at World Championships halfway mark as three Brits feature in top-10
Britain’s women sliders are all well placed at the halfway mark of the 2009 Skeleton World Championships, with Amy Williams in fourth and both Shelley Rudman and Donna Creighton also featuring in the top-10. Rudman, the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games silver medallist, is currently seventh after today’s...
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Sliders prepare for World Champs
Six British skeleton sliders will compete at next week’s World Championships in Lake Placid, USA. British Skeleton, which is based at the University of Bath, has a full complement of three women competing at a World Championships for the first time. Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games silver medallist Shelley Rudman...
