Golden comeback for scholar Aleeya Sibbons as University of Bath students win three medals at 2025 BUCS Outdoor Athletics Champs
Sporting scholar Aleeya Sibbons made a winning return from long-term injury as the University of Bath Student Performance Sport athletics squad won three medals at the 2025 BUCS Outdoor Championships.
Lizzy Ingram and Ariyanna McGee also ran season’s best times at the Manchester Regional Arena to secure well-earned bronze medals in the 2000m steeplechase and 100m hurdles respectively.
Senior GB international Sibbons (pictured top), who is supported by a Santander Scholarship as she studies Architecture at the University, last competed at the Olympic Trials 10 months ago but suffered an ankle injury.
After a winter of working back to full fitness at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, Sibbons dominated the women’s 100m competition as she comfortably won her heat and semi-final before running 11.82 into a strong headwind to clinch gold.
Colin Bovell, Track and Field Head Coach at the University, said: “This was a strong comeback race for Aleeya after long-term injury and shows great promise for the coming season.”
Lizzy Ingram (right) and Birmingham’s Alibhe Barnes enjoyed a hard-fought battle in the 2,000m steeplechase final. CREDIT: BUCS
Ariyanna McGee was delighted to win 100m hurdles bronze at the Manchester Regional ArenaMcGee also had to battle a headwind in the 100m hurdles final but produced a great performance to finish third in 13.90, just six-hundredths of a second off a silver medal.
Fellow Sports Management and Coaching student Ingram also impressed as she won steeplechase bronze in 6:52.25, just outside her personal best and only half a second behind Birmingham’s Alibhe Barnes after the duo enjoyed a hard-fought battle.
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