High jumpers win silver brace and Basil Rock bags thrilling bronze as University of Bath student-athletes impress at BUCS Outdoor Champs
Student-athletes with the University of Bath Athletics Club won three medals and recorded a host of lifetime bests when they proudly represented the Blue & Gold at the 2024 BUCS Outdoor Championships in Manchester.
Goldsmith Sporting Scholar Luke Ball and Biology student Evelyne Fonteyne both won silver in the high jump, clearing season’s bests of 2.06m and 1.74m respectively.
A thrilling men’s 800m final saw Modern Languages (German & Italian) student Basil Rock, coached by Colin Bovell, win bronze in a new personal best of 1:50.12, with less than one-tenth of a second separating second and fourth.
Luke Ball
Evelyne Fonteyne
The high jump silver medallists togetherLizzy Ingram narrowly missed out on a medal in the 2,000m steeplechase, placing fourth in a PB of 6:52.80, and fellow Sport Management & Coaching student Ariyanna McGee was sixth in the 100m hurdles in 14.11 having set a PB of 13.92 in the heats.
Sam Stubbs (Sport and Exercise Science), who cleared 12.03m for seventh in the shot put, set a PB of 14.75 in the 100m hurdles and other lifetime bests were set by Josh Maggs (200m, 21.71), Tom Chandler (5,000m, 14:27.87), Katrina Entwistle (5,000m, 17.44.32) and Laurie Sutcliffe (400m hurdles, 58.56).
Jodie Dale threw a season’s best of 39.88 in the women’s javelin final and Bath’s men placed fifth in the 4x100m relay and seventh in the 4x400m.
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