Six University of Bath-based athletes, including reigning Commonwealth and European champion hurdler Dai Greene, have been named in the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the IAAF World Championships in South Korea. Five athletes coached in Bath by Malcolm Arnold, UK Athletics National Events Coach – Hurdles, feature in the 67-strong team. Dai Greene, who won 400m hurdles gold at last year’s Commonwealth Games and European Championships, bids to add the...
University of Bath-based Paralympic athlete Paul Blake set a world record at the London Disability Athletics Grand Prix in Crystal Palace. Blake broke the previous world record held by Artem Arefyev by 0.81 seconds, shaving 2.4 seconds off his own personal best time. He cut the world record to 2:08.02. The twenty-one year old from Dorchester was quite shocked by his time. “I thought it was around the 2:09 mark,” he said, “but was amazed...
University of Bath student Jack Meredith won gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the European Junior Championships, with training partner Andrew Pozzi, taking silver. Meredith, a Sports Performance student coached by UK Athletics National Events Coach for Hurdles Malcolm Arnold, won in a time of 13.50 in Tallinn, Estonia. It was Meredith’s third attempt at the title. “Now that I’ve won this I’m just over the moon,” he said. His team-mate, Andrew Pozzi, also...
University of Bath based Jack Green, Danny Talbot and Lawrence Clarke all picked up medals this weekend at the European Athletics Under-23 Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Each of them performed strongly on the track to bring home medals in their events. Jack Green, coached by UK Athletics National Events Coach for Hurdles Malcolm Arnold, won gold in the 400m hurdles with a time of 49.13 defeating Great Britain team-mate Nathan Woodward by 0.15 seconds....
University of Bath-based athletes Lawrence Clarke, Danny Talbot and Jack Green have been selected to represent the Great Britain at next month's European Under-23 Championships in the Czech Republic. Talbot and Green are both Sports Performance students at the University of Bath. Talbot, who is coached by Dan Cossins, runs the 200m and is a member of the 4x100m squad for the competition in Ostrava from 14-17 July. Green, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold,...
University of Bath-based athletes produced a string of strong performances at the Aviva England Athletics U23 and U20 Championships at the weekend with Lawrence Clarke, Megan Southwart, Danny Talbot and Andrew Pozzi all collecting titles The championships at Bedford were also the trials for the next month’s European Under-23 and European Junior Championships. Lawrence Clarke, the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist who is coached by Malcolm Arnold, UKA National Events Coach - Hurdles, took...
University of Bath-based hurdler Dai Greene said he was surprised and honoured to be asked to captain the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the Spar European Team Championships in Sweden this month. Greene, the 2010 European and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, is coached by UK Athletics national events coach – hurdles, at Team Bath. The hurdler said: “I was surprised to be asked but I’m really proud take on the...
University of Bath-based hurdler Lawrence Clarke just missed out on a place in the 60m hurdles final on his European Indoor Championships debut in Paris at the weekend. Clarke, who is coached at the Sports Training Village by Malcolm Arnold, UK Athletics national events coach – hurdles, finished fourth in his semi-final. Despite a decent start, he lost form on the fifth hurdle and stumbled across the line. His time of 7.74 seconds wasn’t quite...
Sport and Exercise Science student Kim Murray collected gold and silver medals to help the University of Bath women’s team to fourth place overall at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Indoor Athletics Championships. Murray was in impressive form in the long jump, producing the best jump of the qualifiers – 5.97m – to secure a place in the final. She was joined in the final by team-mate Hannah Lewis (Civil Engineering), whose 5.95m...
University of Bath-based hurdler Lawrence Clarke was today (Tuesday) named in the 32-strong Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at next month’s European Indoor Championships in Paris. Clarke will contest the 60m hurdles at the championships a week before his 21st birthday. Clarke trains at the University of Bath Sports Training Village under the experienced eye of Malcolm Arnold, UK Athletics’ national events coach – hurdles, the man who coached both Colin...
