Tomorrow (Saturday) marks the final day of sporting action at what has been a fantastic Bath 2013 Special Olympics National Summer Games. The Games are organised by Special Olympics GB, a charity providing year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities (also known as learning disabilities) in England, Scotland and Wales. As well as 1700 athletes, 500 volunteers, 600 coaches and 120 sports officials, the Games also attracted many family members...
Hundreds of athletes with intellectual disabilities went into action on the opening day of the Bath 2013 Special Olympics GB National Summer Games. The University of Bath is the main host venue for the Games, hosting the athletes’ accommodation and nine of the 12 sports at the Games. Day one of the Games saw athletes from around the country taking part in a wide range of sports at the University, including athletics, boccia, football, gymnastics,...
Bath-based athlete Eilidh Child said she was delighted to help the British 4x400m to bronze at the World Championships in Moscow at the weekend. Child, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach - ran 51.7 seconds on the opening leg to help set Britain up for a medal. Shana Cox, Margaret Adeoye and Christine Ohuruogu brought the team home in 3:22.61 for bronze. “I’m just delighted that we could come home...
Sixteen-year-old Sophie Kamlish rounded off Britain’s track campaign at the IPC Athletics World Championships with a bronze medal and personal best in the T44 200m. The London 2012 Paralympian, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, had just missed out on a medal in the 100m final in Lyon, finishing fourth on Thursday night. But the following day she went one place better to win a medal at her first World...
Bath-based athlete Paul Blake was just edged out of a double gold medal winning performance at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France today (Friday). Blake added a silver medal in the T36 400m to the gold he won over 800m in Lyon on Monday. Gold today went to Evgenii Shvetcov, Russia’s Paralympic champion and world record holder. He crossed the line in 56.27 with Blake second in 56.72. Blake had set a championship record...
University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake struck gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France this morning. Blake added the T36 800m gold to the 400m title he won at the last World Championships in New Zealand two years ago. He did it in style at Lyon 2013, running from the front to claim Britain’s fourth gold of the championships in a personal best and championship record of 2:06.10. Blake, who is coached by...
University of Bath student Kirsten McAslan has been selected to compete at next month’s athletics World Championships in Moscow. The 19-year-old Biochemistry student was today (Tuesday) named in the GB team alongside the likes of double Olympic champion Mo Farah and Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis. It’s only the second senior GB call-up for McAslan, who receives a Santander Sports Scholarship while she trains and studies at the University of Bath. McAslan is named in...
Reigning world champion Dai Greene ran a season’s best to take 400m hurdles gold at the Sainsbury’s British Championships in Birmingham at the weekend. Greene, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold – British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach - clocked a season’s best 48.66 seconds to beat former training partner Rhys Williams into second place at the championships, which doubled as the trials for the World Championships in Moscow. Greene said: “It was nice to come...
University of Bath-based sprinter Danny Talbot is celebrating a brace of medals at the European Under-23 Championships in Finland. The 22-year-old, who is coached by Dan Cossins, won silver in the 200m and followed that up with gold in the 4x100m on yesterday’s (Sunday) final day of action in Tampere. Talbot ran the second leg in the relay final partnering Adam Gemili, Deji Tobais and Dannish Walker-Khan as the quartet set a new European under-23...
Team Bath judo players missed out on the medals at the World University Games in Russia. In the women’s under-70kg class, Megan Fletcher just missed out on a quarter-final berth in Kazan when she lost her round of 16 contest to Cuba’s Onix Cortes Aldama. The bout went the full five minutes before the Cuban edged it with a late Yuko score. Cortes Aldama went on to take bronze overall. Fletcher had earlier beaten Russia’s...
