University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle ran the fastest 400m indoor time by a European this year as she claimed victory at the Indoor Track & Field Vienna meeting in Austria. The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze-medallist, coached by Malcolm Arnold at the Sports Training Village, clocked a winning time of 51.86 – just four-tenths of a second outside the lifetime best she set in 2013. That was well inside the qualifying time for the 2017...
University of Bath sporting scholar Cameron Chalmers has been shortlisted for the Channel Islands Sports Personality of the Year Award. The Sports Performance student finished 2016 ranked as Europe’s top 400m runner in the U20 age group, having represented Great Britain at the IAAF World Junior Championships. Supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, Chalmers – originally from Guernsey – is up against tennis player Scott Clayton, Olympic equestrian champion Carl Hester and rugby player-coach Alex...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle will kick-start 2017 by competing against Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham. Both Doyle, who won 4x400m relay bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and fellow hurdler Muhammad will contest the 400m flat at the world-class event on February 18. “There is a really big year ahead with the World Championships taking place in London and the Muller Indoor Grand Prix will be...
Outstanding success at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games plus the visit of sporting and actual royalty ensured that the University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style during 2016. When the University received Royal Charter status on October 25, 1966, there were no sporting facilities on the Claverton Down campus. Five decades later, it has developed into what Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley believes is “the most vibrant, exciting and dynamic sporting...
The depth of talent among student athletes at the University of Bath has been demonstrated once again after 22 potential stars of the future were awarded sporting scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year. Competing in sports as diverse as alpine skiing, clay pigeon shooting, modern pentathlon and rowing, all have demonstrated their potential to succeed both academically and on the national and international sporting stage. Among those selected are Team Bath Netball and England U21...
University of Bath graduate Marilyn Okoro is set to receive an Olympic medal as a result of retrospective drugs tests for athletes competing at the Beijing 2008 Games. Okoro was part of the Great Britain women’s 4x400m relay team that finished fifth in that year’s final, along with Christine Ohuruogu, Kelly Sotherton and Nicola Sanders. They have already been upgraded to fourth after Russia were disqualified in August of this year when Anastasiya Kapachinskaya tested...
Seven Rio Olympic and Paralympic track and field stars based at the University of Bath have been selected by British Athletics for the Olympic and Paralympic World Class Performance Programmes (WCPP) in 2016-17. Rising star David King, a Sports Performance graduate and ambassador for Team Bath’s partners MJ Church, is also among the 118 elite athletes who will receive support from the National Lottery-funded WCPP during the season ahead. Paul Blake – coached by Rob...
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic medalists received a heroes’ welcome on Wednesday when they celebrated their stunning summer of sporting success with students and staff at the University of Bath. Six Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes who train at the University’s world-class Sports Training Village – athletes Paul Blake, Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle plus swimmers Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn – were joined by graduate Heather Stanning, the double rowing Olympic champion,...
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic medallists are among the University of Bath-based athletes and alumni shortlisted for this year’s Bath Chronicle Sports Awards. Paul Blake, who won gold and silver at the Paralympic Games, is in the running for Disability Sports Performer of the Year along with training partner Sophie Kamlish, who set a new world record in Rio – both are coached by Rob Ellchuk at the Sports Training Village. Also shortlisted are badminton player...
Paul Blake will be bringing two Rio 2016 Paralympic Games medals back to his University of Bath training base after adding T36 800m silver to his 400m gold on Saturday. Training partner Sophie Kamlish was just six-hundredths of a second away from also getting on the podium on a day that saw her smash the T44 100m world record. And University of Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham emulated her achievements from London 2012 as she and...
