Martha Ng wins European gold as University of Bath badminton performance squad enjoy successful September
It was a successful September for badminton players who train at the University of Bath, capped by a brilliant gold for Martha Ng at the European U15 Championships in Poland.
Ng, who reached the quarter-finals of the women’s singles, teamed up with fellow Brit Shraddha Gopalakrishnan to win the women’s doubles in fine style. They lost just one set in five matches and beat the number two seeds on the way to the final, where they overcame Denmark’s Alva Jacobsen and Simone Pihl 22-20 21-14.
The Kent Senior Silver competition saw Team Bath Breakthrough Programme athlete Toby Dillingham team up with University of Bath badminton performance squad training partner Cara Collins to win the mixed doubles.
Collins was runner-up in the women’s doubles with Katie Scott, who was a semi-finalist in the individual competition. Dillingham also reached the last four of the open doubles with Economics student Harry Hodges, who was a semi-finalist in the mixed doubles too with Aimee Whiteman.
Hodges and Whiteman repeated that result at the Dorset Senior Gold, where Collins and partner Daniel McMillen were runners-up in the mixed doubles.
There was another final for a Bath athlete at the Hertfordshire Senior Silver as Dillingham finished runner-up in the men’s doubles with Alex Dillingham.
The University of Bath badminton performance squad, coached by Peter Bush at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, is a mixture of present students and non-student performance athletes including Ng and Paris 2024 para-badminton silver-medallist Dan Bethell.
Find out more about the badminton programme by visiting teambath.com/badminton.
