University of Bath graduate Katherine Endacott added a gold medal in the 4x100m relay to the individual 100m medal she won earlier this week at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The Coach Education and Sports Performance graduate led off the England quartet that took gold ahead of Ghana and India today. Endacott, who lives in Plymouth, has also learned today that her individual 100m bronze has now been upgraded to silver following the disqualification of...
University of Bath Sports Performance student Katrina Hart struck gold at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 20-year-old Paralympic athlete sprinted to gold in the T37 100m final to claim England’s first athletics gold medal of the Games. And she did it in style, setting a British record of 14.36 seconds. She becomes the first University of Bath-based athlete to claim a medal in Delhi. Hart, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University,...
European champion Dai Greene returned to his University of Bath training base to prepare for his next big challenge – the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Greene, who equalled the second best British time for the 400m hurdles to win gold for in Barcelona on Saturday, said it was fantastic to return to the Sports Training Village clutching a gold medal. “All the hard work through the winter months has paid off,” said Greene, who is coached...
Super University of Bath student Ben Rushgrove stormed to 100m silver in the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing earlier today, bringing Britain's athletics squad a little ray of light on a gloomy morning. Rushgrove won Britain's first track medal of the day when he powered to second in the T36 100m behind Ukraine's Roman Pavlyk. The 20-year-old Team Bath ahlete responded superbly after a sluggish start and with a late surge grabbed the silver in...
Several University of Bath-based athletes will be representing ParalympicsGB at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. Sprinter Ben Rushgrove and his coach Rob Ellchuk, swimmer Kate Grey and judo player Darren Harris will be going into action less than two weeks after the University of Bath based Craig Pickering, Dale Garland, Mark Foster and the entire Team GB modern pentathlon contingent returned from competing in the able-bodied Games. Ben Rushgrove is the current T36 100m European...
A total of nine athletes and four coaches representing three countries competing at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games train at the University of Bath's state of the art facilities. Beijing 2008 was the fifth Olympic experience for University of Bath Swimming Club's Mark Foster, who was Team GB flag bearer along with Maltese judoka Marcon Bezzina, who had the honour of leading the Maltese contingent out at the Opening Ceremony. The entire Team GB modern...
