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News Archive, Month: March 2011

Tursunov is big draw on day one of top tennis tournament

21 March 2011

Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov, a former top 20 player who is coming back after injury, will be the big draw as today’s matches get underway at the AEGON ATP Challenger tournament at TeamBath. Tursunov, seeded third, takes on Ruben Bemelmans of Denmark in the opening round as the fourth match on Court 1.  Entry for spectators to the Sports Training Village is free of charge and this is the first time that the Village has hosted...

Champions Team Bath go down to Mavericks

18 March 2011

Defending champions Team Bath went down to top-of-the-table Hertfordshire Mavericks 52-42 in tonight’s (Friday) Fiat Netball Superleague clash at the University of Bath. The contest, played out in front of another bumper crowd of around 940 fans, was a rematch of last season’s final - but the losing side then came out on top tonight, following their one-goal victory in February with a more decisive margin this time around. Team Bath found themselves playing catch-up...

Talented quartet collect Athlete of Month awards

17 March 2011

Paralympic World Champions Paul Blake and Katrina Hart, world junior champion bobsleigher Paula Walker and British Universities champion swimmer Michael Jamieson are the latest winners of Team Bath’s Athlete of the Month awards, which are sponsored by Oakley and the Milsom Eye Company. Paul Blake and Katrina Hart collected the awards for January for their outstanding performances at the IPC Athletics World Championships in New Zealand. Paul won gold in the T36 400m and silvers...

Swimmers return to Bath with haul of medals and titles

15 March 2011

University of Bath-based swimmers produced some impressive results at the British Championships, returning to Bath with a string of medals and titles. Sports Performance student Michael Jamieson, who trains with the British Gas Intensive Training Centre Bath, completed a 100m and 200m breaststroke double, setting a qualification time for July’s World Championships in Shanghai in the process. Stacey Tadd, who trains with the University performance group, also collected a brace of titles but just missed...

Team Bath take on Mavericks in repeat of Superleague final

15 March 2011

Team Bath aim to return to winning ways in the Fiat Netball Superleague when they host Hertfordshire Mavericks on Friday (18 March) night in a re-run of last year’s Superleague final. Team Bath ran out 51-44 winners in that final to secure their fourth Superleague title, but Mavericks exacted an element of revenge when they edged out Team Bath by just a single goal at 42-41 in February. Team Bath head coach Jess Garland is...

Team Bath quartet to feature for England against Jamaica

15 March 2011

Four Team Bath netballers and a further five University of Bath graduates have been named in England’s 14-strong netball squad to take on Jamaica. The International Series in Jamaica is an important part of England’s preparations for the World Championships, which take place in Singapore in July. The team fly out to the Caribbean towards the end of April. Pamela Cookey, a University of Bath Business Administration student and captain of TeamBath’s Fiat Superleague team,...

London 2012 – 500 days to go

15 March 2011

There are now just 500 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games and University of Bath-based athletes are continuing their preparations to compete on the world’s greatest sporting stage. British athletes who are based at the University are training to battle for places to compete at 2012 across a range of sports, including athletics, judo, modern pentathlon and swimming. The University of Bath is proud to been have chosen by...

Jamieson and Tadd secure second titles of British Championships

11 March 2011

University of Bath-based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Stacey Tadd both collected their second titles of the British Championships in Manchester last night (Thursday). Sports Performance student Jamieson, who trains at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre (ITC) Bath, added 200m breaststroke gold to the 100m breaststroke title he collected earlier in the week. And Jamieson, who won silver over 200m at last year’s Commonwealth Games, set a personal best to dip under the qualification time...

Jamieson and Tadd land British titles

09 March 2011

University of Bath-based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Stacey Tadd have both collected titles on the opening days of the British Championships. Sports Performance student Jamieson, the Commonwealth Games 200m breaststroke silver medallist, won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the British Championships in Manchester. He swam 1:01.31 to beat fellow British Gas Intensive Training Centre Bath swimmer Kris Gilchrist into second place. University of Bath graduate Richard Webb came third with Chemical Engineering student Andrew...

Marathon man Mahut set to feature at Bath Challenger

09 March 2011

France’s Nicolas Mahut will be relieved to glance through the draw for this month’s AEGON ATP Challenger tournament at TeamBath and see that American John Isner doesn’t feature on the entry list. Mahut battled out a marathon 183-game 11-hour and five-minute match with the American in the first round at Wimbledon last year, only to lose the final set 70-68 in a contest played out over three days. The Challenger event, which takes places at...

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