University of Bath students win five medals during busy weekend of BUCS athletics and rowing competition
It was a busy Bank Holiday Weekend for University of Bath student-athletes as they contested the BUCS Rowing Regatta and BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships, winning five medals.
Crew Bath fielded 34 crews during four days of racing at the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre in Nottingham and started strongly with a medal in the first final, Tom Osmond (top left) winning silver in the open beginner single sculls in 3:27.80.
There was also silver in the women’s intermediate eights for Isabel Wood, Annabel O’Carroll, Clementine Adams, Ellie Fowlds, Emily Dunn, Harriet Foskett, Isabella Makepeace, Sofie Hughes and cox Phoebe Packman.
The women’s championship quadruple sculls final saw Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholar Ella Fullman, Rebekah Court, Freya Ridge and Tolu Adelaja finish strongly to beat Durham to the third podium spot in 7:07.32.
Ridge and Adelaja added a second bronze in the women’s intermediate double sculls (7:30.02), narrowly missing out on second spot after a well-fought battle against Leeds.
Fullman and Court, fresh from impressing at the GB Rowing Team Final Trials, were pipped to a medal in the women’s championship double final, their time of 7:14.76 just 11-hundredths of a second shy of third spot.
There were also fourth-placed finishes in the open championship lightweight fours (Charlie Pope, Kieran McWilliams, Louis Alexander and Oscar Rainton); women’s intermediate coxed fours (Fowlds, Foskett, Makepeace, Hughes and Packman); and the women’s beginner eights (Anna Gillingwater, Bee Thomson, Daisy Minns, Heidi Fothergill, Holly John, Jeanne Anderson, Lucy Morris, Lucia Brady and cox Sophie Jackson).
It was a short journey to the Cardiff International Sports Campus for the University’s athletics squad, where Biology student Evelyne Fonteyne won women’s high jump bronze with a 1.72m clearance.
Ariyanna McGee was unfortunate not to finish on the podium in the 100m hurdles, missing out by just four-hundredths of a second with a time of 13.60 in the final after setting a season’s best of 13.52 in the heats.
Jasmine Palmer ran a personal best of 4:21.18 while qualifying for the women’s 1,500m final, where she placed fifth as did Amelia Gray in the triple jump final after clearing 12.35m.
The women’s 4x100m quartet of McGee, Nkena Okoh, Tabitha Williamson and Zeinab El-Touni were sixth in the penultimate race of the weekend in 47.85, meaning Bath’s women finished seventh in the team standings.
Tom Brinkley was the leading male athlete, placing seventh in the 3,000m steeplechase in a PB of 9:21.91. Other lifetime bests were recorded by Williamson (100m, 12.87), Okoh (400m, 59.36), Thomas Sugden (400m, 49.55), Maddie Barker (1,500m, 4:28.73), Ana Esteve (2,000m steeplechase, 7:02.86), Tom Chandler (5,000m, 14:22.65), Cerys Leyshon (javelin, 33.39m) and Remy Weinbrecht (discus, 38.94m).
Find out more about the student athletics and rowing programmes by visiting teambath.com/athletics and teambath.com/rowing.
