Dom Parsons recorded his best result for two years and there were top-ten finishes for Lizzy Yarnold and bobsleigh drivers Mica McNeill and Bradley Hall as British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) athletes competed in the latest IBSF World Cup at St Moritz. It was the last competition before selection is confirmed for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, which are now less than a month away. Parsons – a Mechanical Engineering PhD student at...
Reigning British Champions Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke enjoyed more success on home soil when the University of Bath Sports Training Village hosted the first Pentathlon GB ranking competition of 2018. Rio 2016 Olympian Cooke led from start to finish in the men’s competition, winning 27 of his 36 fencing bouts and recording the third fastest 200m freestyle swim of the day in the London 2012 Legacy Pool. He then maintained his advantage in the...
He recently took on a new academic challenge at the University of Bath, now rising rugby star Beck Cutting is continuing his international sporting education after being named in the England U20 Elite Player Squad for 2017-18. The 19-year-old hooker has just completed his first week of training with the 32-strong squad at Bisham Abbey ahead of the U20 Six Nations, which get under way against Italy on February 2, and the World Rugby U20...
British Bobsleigh athlete Bruce Tasker will miss the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games after suffering a minor stroke last week. He is expected to make a full recovery and has already targeted a return to the track later in the year but has been advised on medical grounds not to compete in what would have been his second Olympics, with the Games now less than a month away. “I’m gutted not to be able to...
University of Bath student Rupert Batting has described winning a hat-trick of team gold medals and individual silver at the AIEC Student Rider Nations Cup (SRNC) World Finals as “an experience I’ll never forget”. The event rider, who is studying International Development with Economics, teamed up with Sophie Hall and India Wishart to claim the overall combined title for Great Britain in Poland, as well as gold in the team dressage. Britain also tied for...
Team Bath Tennis ace Anna Smith has returned to the Great Britain Fed Cup team for next month’s Europe/Africa Group I matches in Estonia. Smith – who flew out to Melbourne on Monday to compete in the 2018 Australian Open – will once again represent her country having finished 2017 ranked in the world’s top 50 doubles players. She previously appeared at the Fed Cup in 2015 and 2016, winning four of her five rubbers,...
Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club are through to the national finals of the Jaffa Super 6s Men’s Indoor Championships for the first time in their history. Buccs confirmed their place in the televised showpiece event – taking place at London’s Copper Box Arena on Sunday, January 28 – after securing a top-four finish in the Premier Division. They went into the second weekend of the league stages sitting at the top of the table after...
Team Bath Netball got their 2018 off to a cracking start as they came out on top in a hugely-entertaining tri-tournament against Severn Stars and Wasps Netball, broadcast live on BBC Sport. The Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold came from behind to beat Stars 35-27 and then overcame 2017 Superleague champions Wasps 29-25 in the final match of a fantastic afternoon of netball at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Wasps were also 39-32 victors...
Another six University of Bath-based athletes representing four nations in three different sports will be heading out to Australia in April to compete in the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Sprinter Leon Reid has been named in the Northern Ireland athletics squad, while MJ Church ambassador Anna Hopkin, Jessica Fullalove and Cameron Kurle are in the second wave of swimmers selected by Team England following last month’s trials. Economics and Mathematics student Jessica Li, coached...
After recharging his batteries over the Christmas break, skeleton ace Dom Parsons is sliding into a Winter Olympic year confident of finding the improvements he needs to challenge for a medal in PyeongChang. The University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student is currently ranked 12th in the BMW ISBF World Cup men’s skeleton rankings after the first five races of the 2017-18 season, with his best result being ninth place at Winterberg last month. Parsons admits...
