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News Archive, Month: August 2012

Helen Glover & Heather Stanning at 2012 London Olympic Regatta. Photo: Spurrier/Intersport Images

It’s gold and a piece of history for Heather Stanning and Helen Glover at London 2012 Olympic Games

01 August 2012

University of Bath graduate Heather Stanning and her rowing partner Helen Glover made a piece of history today (Wednesday) by becoming Britain’s first women Olympic rowing gold medallists. And it was a double success for the British pair, who also won Team GB’s first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics. Heather and Helen learned to row through the GB Rowing Team’s Start programme at the University of Bath. They showed their intentions in Saturday’s...

Alexander Petro

Russian athletes head for Olympics after successful camp

01 August 2012

Members of Russia’s athletics team became the last athletes to head to the London 2012 Olympic Games at the end of their preparation camp at the University of Bath this morning (Wednesday). The Russians took part in a 10-day training stint at the University and are now joining up with the rest of the team in London. They took the oppourtnity to meet up with the Bath Bullet – Olympic 4x100m gold medallist Jason Gardener...

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