A trio of University of Bath-based London 2012 Paralympians produced impressive results at the Fazza International Athletics Competition in Dubai. Paul Blake, a double medallist at London 2012, smashed his personal best in the T36 100m with a new best of 12.58 seconds. That put the 400m and 800m specialist second. Blake also took bronze in the T36/37/38 400m final. Sophie Kamlish won a pair of bronze medals in combined T37/38/44/46 class competitions over 100m...
Andrew Pozzi’s gold medal in the 60m hurdles was the pick of the Bath performances at the Sainsbury’s British Athletics Indoor Championships at the weekend. Pozzi and former training partner William Sharman tied in the final in a dead heat in a time of 7.64 seconds, just inside the World Indoor qualifying standard. Pozzi, who is coached at the University of Bath by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics’ lead hurdles coach, was delighted with the win...
University of Bath graduate Craig Pickering is set to join a select group of athletes who have competed at Summer and Winter Olympic Games after swapping the athletics track for the bobsleigh track. Pickering made his Olympic debut in the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games as a member of Britain’s 4x100m relay team. Six years on the University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science graduate is poised to return...
University of Bath-based athletes landed many of the top honours at the annual Bath Chronicle Sports Awards ceremony, with Stephanie Millward, Paul Blake and Team Bath’s Superleague netballers among the winners of major awards. Paralympic swimmer Stephanie Millward was named winner of the coveted sports personality of the year award at last night’s (Wednesday) ceremony at Bath Racecourse. It came after another impressive year that saw the Aquae Sulis Performance Swimming Club member, who trains...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Child has been named Scottish Athlete of the Year for 2013. The London 2012 Olympic collected the honour at a scottishathletics and jogscotland dinner in Glasgow on Saturday night. It came towards the end of a terrific year for Eilidh, who is coached in Bath by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach. Eilidh won 400m silver and helped the GB 4x400m relay quartet to gold at the European Indoor...
Fifteen talented student athletes, including a world champion, a world junior champion, a European Junior Championship medalist and World Youth Championship medalists are among the latest recipients of University of Bath scholarships. University of Bath students who have displayed potential to succeed both academically and in their chosen sport can apply for the scholarships. They receive a cash award that runs over the period of their course and helps them meet the demands of training,...
Team Bath’s netballers and Paralympic world champions Stephanie Millward and Paul Blake are among the University of Bath-based athletes featuring on shortlists for the 2013 Bath Chronicle Sports Awards. Team Bath’s netballers continued their domination of the Superleague by winning their fifth title from just eight campaigns in 2013. The team’s present and past players also made up the majority of England squads that scored emphatic series wins over Australia and South Africa. The team...
University of Bath-based Eilidh Child was among the first athletes to be selected for the Scotland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 400m hurdler featured on a 27-strong list of the first athletes named by Team Scotland for the home Games. Scotland have also announced they will field a women’s 4x400m relay team at the Games. Child is coached by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach. She becomes the first...
Two world champions are among the latest Team Bath athlete of the month award winners, showing the impressive sporting talent based at the University of Bath. The latest six winners also include a world championship medallist, a World Cup gold medallist and a double European champion. Aquae Sulis Performance Swimming Club member Stephanie Millward received the women’s award for August after winning a remarkable four gold medals at the IPC World Championships in Canada. Another...
Special Olympics GB Chief Executive Karen Wallin said athletes went home from the Bath 2013 Games ‘smiling and with amazing memories’. Karen praised the facilities at the University of Bath’s Claverton Down campus, which hosted athlete accommodation and most of the sports. She said she couldn’t have wished for a more successful Games. "In my wildest dreams I could not have wished for a more successful event,” she said. “The athletes, who all have intellectual...
