BBC One’s Superstars 2012 one-off Olympic special was screened on Saturday 29 December. Sixteen British Olympic medallists from London 2012 battled it out for supremacy for show, much of which was filmed at the University of Bath Sports Training Village last month. University of Bath Sports Performance student and Bath Intensive Training Centre swimmer Michael Jamieson was among the eight guys in action. The Olympic silver medallist was joined by 5000m and 10000m gold medallist...
University of Bath students and staff took the opportunity to pay tribute to athletes linked to the University who won medals at London 2012. Hundreds of students and staff attended the London 2012 medallists celebration event held at the Founders Hall. Seven athletes with University links who won medals at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games attended the celebration. They included Sports Technology graduate Heather Stanning, who learned to row at the University and...
Bath residents turned out in force to pay tribute to the city’s London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heroes as they toured the city in a celebratory open top bus parade this morning (Wednesday). Twenty athletes took part in the parade – 13 Olympians across seven different sports and seven Paralympians who competed in four sports at London 2012. Bath city centre came to a standstill as residents turned out to cheer on the athletes, who...
It was another sparkling night in the Olympic Stadium for University of Bath based athletes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, with Ben Rushgrove and Paul Blake both winning bronzes. Rushgrove, a University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, ran a fantastic bend to take bronze in the T36 200m final, in a personal best of 24.83 seconds. He adds today's bronze to the silver he won over 100m four years ago in Beijing. “Now I've...
University of Bath based athlete Paul Blake tonight (Tuesday) sprinted to silver in the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The 22 year old, who is coached at the Sports Training Village by Rob Ellchuk, produced a classic 400m run in front of a capacity 80,000 crowd in the stadium Running in lane five in the T36 400m final against a strong and experienced field, he refused to let Russia’s Evgenii Shvetcov in...
Medals, records and some history in the making – that was the University of Bath’s story in the sporting arenas at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where athletes with Bath links had a hand in Great Britain’s first and last medals of the Games. Past and present students and athletes from the University were in impressive form at the Olympics. Some 25 athletes who train at the University were selected to compete across seven sports...
Sixteen-year-old Sophie Kamlish produced a terrific performance to finish fifth in her first Paralympic Games final at the London 2012 Games tonight (Sunday). Kamlish, who is coached at the University of Bath by Rob Ellchuk, is representing ParalympicsGB at her first Games. She clocked a time of 13.98 seconds in the T44 100m final in front of 80000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium. Two of her training partners, Ben Rushgrove and Katrina Hart, were also...
Over 40 athletes from three sports have settled into the Preparation Camp at the University of Bath in the past 48 hours with more sports soon to join them. Footballers, archers and shooters rubbed shoulders in Bath yesterday. Performance Director Penny Briscoe, paid tribute to the lottery funding which has made such a state-of-the-art camp possible. "We have raised the bar in our preparations in this four year cycle", she said. "But so, too, have...
University of Bath based modern pentathletes Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale finished 10th and 13th respectively at the London 2012 Olympic modern pentathlon. The GB pair train at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the University of Bath and were both competing their second Olympic Games. They both put themselves into strong positions by producing solid positions throughout the day, with Woodbridge going into the run/shoot in seventh and Weale ninth. But they both...
University of Bath-based athletes Jack Green and Dai Greene finished agonisingly close to the medals in the 4x400m relay, finishing just 0.13 seconds off the bronze medal place in fourth. Jack, a Sports Performance student, ran the second leg and handed the baton over to Dai, with Martyn Rooney taking the final leg and bringing Team GB home just behind the team from Trinidad and Tobago. Afterwards Dai, who had also finished fourth in the...
