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News Archive, Month: September 2012

Paralympic Sailing Weymouth. Skud18. Niki Birrell/Alexandra Rickham. Photo: ParalympicGB

Bronze for sailor Rickham

06 September 2012

University of Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham has won sailing bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Rickham, who graduated with a Natural Sciences degree in 2004, won the medal for ParalympicsGB today partnering Niki Birrell in the SKUD 18 class. It was a good sailing campaign for Great Britain, with Helena Lucas also winning gold in the one-person 2.4mR class. They became the first British sailors to win Paralympic Games medals since the sport joined...

London 2012 bronze for Liz Johnson

05 September 2012

Britain’s Liz Johnson won bronze in the SB6 100m breaststroke final at the London 2012 Paralympic Games tonight (Wednesday). The University of Bath based swimmer clocked a time of 1:40.90 to come home in third place behind Ukraine’s Viktoriia Savtsova, who set a Paralympic record, with Britain’s Charlotte Henshaw taking silver. Johnson’s bronze means she now has a full set of medals, after winning silver in Athens eight years ago and gold in Beijing in...

Silver for Blake and bronze for Hart at London 2012 Paralympic Games

04 September 2012

University of Bath based athlete Paul Blake tonight (Tuesday) sprinted to silver in the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The 22 year old, who is coached at the Sports Training Village by Rob Ellchuk, produced a classic 400m run in front of a capacity 80,000 crowd in the stadium Running in lane five in the T36 400m final against a strong and experienced field, he refused to let Russia’s Evgenii Shvetcov in...

Helen Glover & Heather Stanning. Photo: Press Association

London 2012 Olympic Games round-up as University of Bath athletes enjoy home success

03 September 2012

Medals, records and some history in the making – that was the University of Bath’s story in the sporting arenas at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where athletes with Bath links had a hand in Great Britain’s first and last medals of the Games. Past and present students and athletes from the University were in impressive form at the Olympics. Some 25 athletes who train at the University were selected to compete across seven sports...

Teenager Kamlish fifth on Paralympic Games debut

02 September 2012

Sixteen-year-old Sophie Kamlish produced a terrific performance to finish fifth in her first Paralympic Games final at the London 2012 Games tonight (Sunday). Kamlish, who is coached at the University of Bath by Rob Ellchuk, is representing ParalympicsGB at her first Games. She clocked a time of 13.98 seconds in the T44 100m final in front of 80000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium. Two of her training partners, Ben Rushgrove and Katrina Hart, were also...

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