The British swimmer discusses his Olympic preparations. Kris Gilchrist believes the professional environment at his University of Bath training centre is the key to his Olympic preparations. The 28-year-old moved to the Intensive Training Centre (ITC) at Bath just over a year ago, believing that the decision was a "no brainer." With such a high repertoire of elite athletes based at the sporting university, Gilchrist often trains in the gym alongside athletes from Olympic events...
Sprint hurdler Andy Pozzi has been selected to represent the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at next month’s World Indoor Championships. Pozzi is coached by Malcolm Arnold, UK Athletics National Events Coach Hurdles, and trains at the University of Bath. The 19-year-old wins his first senior cap in the 60m hurdles at the championships, which take place in Istanbul from 9 to 11 March. His section comes after he won his first national senior...
Team Bath take-on Hertfordshire Mavericks in a crucial third versus fourth clash in the Fiat Netball Superleague at the University of Bath on Thursday (23 February). The contest, being televised live on Sky Sports, features the only two teams to have won the Superleague trophy in the six years of the competition. Team Bath go into the game in fourth place in the Superleague hoping to make it three wins in a row following back-to-back...
University of Bath student Chris Hay helped England secure team epee gold at the Commonwealth Junior Fencing Championships in Jersey. England beat Canada 45-35 in the final of the team competition to take the gold. Chris, a Biology student at the University of Bath, featured in all of England’s matches and wrapped up his campaign with a 9-3 win over Canada’s Mathew Anderson, who had earlier won the gold medal of the individual epee competition....
University of Bath French and Politics student Samantha Murray continued her impressive start to 2012 by winning the Hungarian Indoor Championships in Budapest at the weekend. And there was further good news for Great Britain with Beijing 2008 Olympic modern pentathlete and University of Bath alumni Katy Livingston taking bronze. Murray followed up her win at the final national selection competition in Bath last month by taking gold in Budapest, comfortably beating Lithuania’s world number...
Fixture: Team Bath Buccaneers v Litchfield Date and time: Sunday 19 February 2012 Score: TBB 6-1 Litchfield Venue: University of Bath, Sports Training Village Team Bath Buccaneers continued their fine form in the West Conference with a 6-1 home win over Lichfield on Sunday. Buccs have now won eleven games in a row in the division and top the table by eleven points. Buccs took the lead in the fifteenth minute when young striker Tom...
Fixture: Team Bath Buccaneers v Swansea Date and time: Sunday 19 February 2012 Score: TBB 0-1 Swansea Venue: University of Bath, Sports Training Village The Ladies firsts took on second place Swansea on a day with much better weather than the day before! After a good warm up, Buccs started confidently, transferring the ball well and keeping good shape. The defence of Rachel Jackson, Pip Barnes and Laura Gummer kept the Swansea attacks at bay...
Britain’s rhythmic gymnastics group say they are pleased their bid to secure nomination to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games is going to be considered at an independent appeal. Sport Resolutions will consider the appeal on Wednesday 29 February. In the meantime the group continue to train at their University of Bath training base. If the appeal is successful it is understood British Gymnastics will recommend the British Olympic Association take up the host...
Sports People of Bath Last week saw a sensational set of results with our Wednesday teams recording 28 wins, four losses and one draw. These results saw us jump back to 22 points above Leeds Met in third place of the BUCS table with 1838 points. The Team of the Week was the Football Men’s 2’s following their 3-2 win over Southampton who are 2nd in their league. The result has given Bath a nine...
