The University of Bath won 37 medals – 11 of them gold – as student-athletes enjoyed a successful weekend at the BUCS Nationals in Sheffield, one of Britain’s biggest annual multi-sport competitions. There were plenty of memorable moments on the athletics track, with Sport Performance student Cameron Chalmers – supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship – equaling the championship record of 46.91 as he retained the men’s 400m title. A sensational last leg saw...
University of Bath-based athlete Dave King warmed up for next month’s European Indoor Championships in style by setting a new 60m hurdles personal best at the Muller Grand Prix in Birmingham. The Sport Performance graduate, an ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church, clocked 7.63 as he finished runner-up to former University-based hurdler Andy Pozzi. Former Olympic and World Indoor champion Aries Merritt was third in 7.70. It was the second week running that Pozzi...
More than 200 student-athletes – and several Olympians – will represent the University of Bath across eight different sports when the BUCS Nationals take place in Sheffield this weekend. Rio 2016 swimming medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and James Guy, who all train at the University with the British Swimming National Centre Bath, are among those taking part in the major three-day competition. They, along with fellow Olympian and Chemical Engineering graduate Andrew Willis, will...
Olympic medallist Eilidh Doyle won gold and there were silvers for Dave King and Cameron Chalmers as University of Bath-based athletes impressed at the British Indoor Team Trials in Sheffield. Sport & Social Sciences student Pippa Rogan also finished in the bronze-medal position in the women's high jump with a new personal best. Doyle (pictured), coached by Malcolm Arnold at the Sports Training Village, secured her place at next month’s European Indoor Championships in Belgrade,...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle ran the fastest 400m indoor time by a European this year as she claimed victory at the Indoor Track & Field Vienna meeting in Austria. The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze-medallist, coached by Malcolm Arnold at the Sports Training Village, clocked a winning time of 51.86 – just four-tenths of a second outside the lifetime best she set in 2013. That was well inside the qualifying time for the 2017...
University of Bath sporting scholar Cameron Chalmers has been shortlisted for the Channel Islands Sports Personality of the Year Award. The Sports Performance student finished 2016 ranked as Europe’s top 400m runner in the U20 age group, having represented Great Britain at the IAAF World Junior Championships. Supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, Chalmers – originally from Guernsey – is up against tennis player Scott Clayton, Olympic equestrian champion Carl Hester and rugby player-coach Alex...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle will kick-start 2017 by competing against Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham. Both Doyle, who won 4x400m relay bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and fellow hurdler Muhammad will contest the 400m flat at the world-class event on February 18. “There is a really big year ahead with the World Championships taking place in London and the Muller Indoor Grand Prix will be...
Outstanding success at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games plus the visit of sporting and actual royalty ensured that the University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style during 2016. When the University received Royal Charter status on October 25, 1966, there were no sporting facilities on the Claverton Down campus. Five decades later, it has developed into what Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley believes is “the most vibrant, exciting and dynamic sporting...
The depth of talent among student athletes at the University of Bath has been demonstrated once again after 22 potential stars of the future were awarded sporting scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year. Competing in sports as diverse as alpine skiing, clay pigeon shooting, modern pentathlon and rowing, all have demonstrated their potential to succeed both academically and on the national and international sporting stage. Among those selected are Team Bath Netball and England U21...
University of Bath graduate Marilyn Okoro is set to receive an Olympic medal as a result of retrospective drugs tests for athletes competing at the Beijing 2008 Games. Okoro was part of the Great Britain women’s 4x400m relay team that finished fifth in that year’s final, along with Christine Ohuruogu, Kelly Sotherton and Nicola Sanders. They have already been upgraded to fourth after Russia were disqualified in August of this year when Anastasiya Kapachinskaya tested...
