A 12-hour cyclathon is taking place at the University of Bath on Monday to raise money for CRPS UK, a non-profit organisation that supports sufferers of complex regional pain syndrome. Organiser Amanda Nelson, who will cycle using only her right leg, is joined in the challenge by hand cyclists Kirk Hughes and Hannah Moore. They will be supported by Nichola Cunningham and 13-year-old Lewis Perham, who will ride the hand cycles during comfort and food...
Sprinter Sophie Kamlish finished just outside the medal places when she contested the T44 100m final at the IPC World Athletics Championships in Doha on Thursday. The 19-year-old, coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, ran the second-fastest time of 13.53 in the morning’s semi-finals as she finished runner-up to defending champion Marlou van Rhijn. The Dutch runner went on to beat her own world record as she won the final in 12.80 and...
University of Bath footballer Alice Evans has become Great Britain’s first-ever professional futsal goalkeeper after signing for Italian Serie A Elite League club Sinnai. It continues a landmark year for the Sport Performance student, which saw her make her senior international football debut for Wales and win the FA Women’s Futsal Cup with Bristol City Ladies. Evans was also one of four University of Bath student volunteers who took part in the UK Sport Zambia...
Elite swimmers who train in the University of Bath's London 2012 Legacy Pool will start their countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at a series of international competitions in the next few weeks. Jazz Carlin (pictured), Calum Jarvis, Andrew Willis and Jemma Lowe – all coached by Dave McNulty and Graeme Antwhistle at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath – are among 22 athletes selected for the FINA World Cups in Doha on November 2-3 and Dubai...
Potential student hockey players will have the chance to find out more about the world-class playing and development opportunities at the University of Bath when they compete at the Futures Cup on Friday. Representatives of the University’s hockey programme will be at the competition in Cannock, which features the country’s most talented U16 and U18 players. They will be able to discuss their university considerations and learn more about a thriving hockey set-up at the...
Piers Gilliver will end 2015 ranked as the number one epee wheelchair fencer in the world after a fifth-placed finish at the IWAS World Cup in Paris. Gilliver, who trains at the University of Bath, finished 22 ranking points clear of his nearest rival, Poland’s Dariusz Pender, after a calendar year that saw him win World Cup gold in Eger, Hungary and Pisa, Italy plus the Grand Prix titles in Warsaw and Hong Kong. He...
Paul Blake produced a captain’s performance to successfully defend his IPC Athletic World Championships T36 800m title in thrilling style in Doha on Monday. The British men’s team captain, coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, took the race by the scruff of the neck and opened up a 15m lead after completing the first 400m in 62 seconds. He dug deep to maintain that advantage coming down the back straight and then...
An exciting blend of World Cup stars, returning favourites and talented newcomers have been named in a 19-strong Team Bath Netball long squad for the 2016 Vitality Superleague season. It includes eight familiar faces from Team Bath’s 2015 campaign - Shaunagh Craig, Asha Francis, Rachel Shaw, Jazz Scott, Mia Ritchie, Kyra Jones, Claire Brownie and Sam Cook. Craig, Shaw and Cook all made strong returns from injury in 2015, with the latter (pictured left) making...
Paul Blake secured the sixth IPC Athletics World Championships medal of his career when he won T36 400m silver in Doha on Friday. The British men’s team captain, coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, ran a season’s best time of 54.58 as he finished runner-up to defending champion Evgenii Shvetcov of Russia in the Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium. In humid and breezy conditions, Blake made a strong start but Shvetcov moved away and...
Paul Blake is safely through to Friday’s T36 400m final at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. The 25-year-old, coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, won the second semi-final in 56.62 on Thursday morning. Evgenii Shvetcov, Blake’s main rival for the gold medal, took the honours in the first semi in 57.65. Blake won the 400m title at the 2011 World Championships but had to settle for silver behind Shvetcov in...
