Senior Great Britain internationals Danny Talbot and Sophie Skinner will feature for the University of Bath in this weekend’s British Universities and Colleges Sports (BUCS) Indoor Athletics Championships. Sports Performance student Talbot represented Great Britain at last month’s Aviva International in Glasgow, finishing third over 200m and then ran a pb of 20.89 seconds to win the 200m at the European Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. He is coached by Dan...
University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake rounded off his campaign at the International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships by striking gold in the T36 400m. Blake added gold on Saturday to the silvers he had already won in the 800m and 1500m on his overseas debut. It took the medal tally achieved by the University of Bath-based trio of Blake, Katrina Hart and Ben Rushgrove to eight of the 38 medals won by the Aviva...
University of Bath graduate Ben Rushgrove collected his second medal of the 2011 International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships today (Thursday) by taking bronze in the T36 200m. Rushgrove, who trains at the University with coach Rob Ellchuk, finished third in 200m final in Christchurch, New Zealand in 25.27 seconds. It means the three University of Bath-based athletes coached by Ellchuk have now medalled in each of the six events in which they have competed,...
University of Bath student Katrina Hart is celebrating after adding a world championship crown to the Commonwealth Games title she won last year. The 20-year-old Sports Performance student struck gold in the T37 200m at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Christchurch yesterday (Sunday). Today she added a bronze in the T35-38 4×100m relay. And there have also been a brace of silvers medals for University of Bath-based athletes too, with Ben Rushgrove collecting...
A trio of University of Bath-based athletes are preparing to compete at the International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships in New Zealand, which gets underway tomorrow (Friday). Ben Rushgrove, Katrina Hart and Paul Blake are all members of the British team competing at Christchurch. University of Bath Sports Performance student Hart will be the first of the trio to go into action when she competes in the T37 200m heats on Saturday (22 January). The...
University of Bath sports science undergraduate Sophie Skinner has been called up to the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the Senior Combined Events International from 29-30 January, 2011. Skinner, originally from Crediton and an Exeter Harrier, is currently coached by Team Bath’s Colin Bovell at the University of Bath’s world-renowned Sports Training Village and was selected after taking silver at last weekend’s Senior British Championships – an event in which...
University of Bath student Katrina Hart was today named International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month for October 2010. The announcement followed an online public vote in which Katrina claimed 48 per cent of votes cast. The University of Bath Sports Performance student collected the award after winning gold for England in the T37 100m at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. She said: “I’m really pleased to win this award and I’d like to thank everyone...
Sprinter Katrina Hart was back training at the University of Bath Sports Training Village just four days after winning a Commonwealth Games gold medal in Delhi. Hart, who is studying Sports Performance at the University of Bath, won England’s first athletics gold medal in Delhi when she sprinted to victory in the T37 100m in a personal best time and British record of 14.36 seconds. But she was soon back in training in Bath with...
University of Bath graduate Katherine Endacott added a gold medal in the 4x100m relay to the individual 100m medal she won earlier this week. 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 Nigeria’s Osayemi Oludamola. Former University of...
University of Bath graduate Katherine Endacott has won a surprise bronze medal at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 30-year-old Coach Education and Sports Performance graduate crossed the finish line in fourth place in the 100m yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. But she was upgraded to a podium place after Australia’s Sally Pearson was later disqualified for a false start. Endacott ran a personal best time of 11.44 in the final at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in...
