News Archive, Month: January 2015

Team Bath Judo’s Ben Fletcher wins World Cup gold at African Open in Tunis

22 January 2015

Great Britain international Ben Fletcher struck gold during a successful weekend for Team Bath Judo Club at the African Open in Tunis, Tunisia. Fletcher, who had to withdraw from the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games after suffering a knee injury in training, showed he is back to full fitness by beating Russia’s Khaybula Magomedov in the -100kg final. Older sister Megan Fletcher - a gold-medalist at Glasgow 2014 - took bronze in the women’s -70kg weight...

Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold wins second gold of 2014-15 Skeleton World Cup season in Konigssee

20 January 2015

Lizzy Yarnold claimed her second FIBT World Cup gold medal of the season and fellow Sochi 2014 Olympian Dominic Parsons finished just outside the medals on another impressive weekend for British Skeleton. Yarnold became the first slider to win two World Cup races this season as she completed her two runs at Königssee in an overall time of 1min 44.24secs, putting her a comfortable 0.71 ahead of Germany’s Anja Huber Selbach. Russia’s Maria Orlova took...

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