Team Bath badminton player Chris Coles finished run-up in the mixed doubles at the Turkish Open at Antalya at the weekend. Coles and partner Jessica Fletcher, seeded four for the competition, went down to top seeds Ben Stawski and Lauren Smith 21-19, 21-13 in an all-English final. Coles also reached the semi-final of the men’s doubles with Matt Nottingham, where they lost 21-16, 21-17 to top seeds Stawski and Paul vsn Rietvelde. Coles and Nottingham...
University of Bath student Jess Dickons has won Britain’s first medal of the World University Games in China when she struck gold in the 200m butterfly final. The 21-year-old Sports Performance student came home in 2:08.91, just edging out Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi by three-hundredths of a second at the Games in Shenzhen. “I knew it was going to be a really quick race and I knew there were some fast swimmers in there,” said Dickons,...
University of Bath student Chris Coles has collected the badminton men’s doubles title at the European Junior Championships. The Sports Performance student took the title at Vantaa in Finland partnering Matt Nottingham. The pair, who were seeded 3/4 for the tournament, came from behind to beat Germany’s Fabian Holzer and Max Schwenger, seeded two, 15-21, 21-14, 21-15 in the final. In March Chris was named winner of the 2011 Badminton Writers Association young player of...
University of Bath student Chris Coles retained his men’s doubles title with partner Matt Nottingham at the England National Under-19 Badminton Championships at Milton Keynes. The pair, who were top seeds, went through the tournament without dropping a game and beat second seeds Harley Towler and Alex Fowler 21-19, 21-16 in a tough final. Coles, a Sports Performance student at the University, went close in two other competitions, losing his men’s singles semi-final to eventual...
University of Bath student Chris Coles reached the semi-final of the men’s doubles competition at the weekend’s English National Badminton Championships. The 18-year-old Sports Performance student reached the semis partnering Matt Nottingham before going down 21-10, 21-17 to the more experienced number two seeds Chris Adcock and Andy Ellis. Coles (pictured), who is supported by a Jeff Trendell Scholarship, also reached the mixed doubles quarter-finals with Jessica Fletcher. Psychology graduate Rachel Howard, who trains at...
Rachel Howard will head the Team Bath challenge at this weekend’s English National Badminton Championships in Manchester. Howard, a University of Bath Psychology graduate who trains at the University, is seeded two in the women’s singles. Top seed is Liz Cann, the bronze medallist at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. “Rachel has never made the semi-finals before at the English Nationals, but she’s playing well in training and is in good form,” said Pete Bush,...
England’s badminton team spent time honing their Commonwealth Games preparations at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. The 10-strong team held a training camp at the Sports Training Village ahead of their trip to Delhi for the Games. Three members of the team were on particularly familiar territory – Mariana Agathangelou (pictured), Carl Baxter and Heather Olver are all University of Bath graduates and are set to make their Commonwealth Games debuts in Delhi....
Malaysian players finalise World Championship preparations in Bath Some of the world’s top badminton players have been finalising preparations for the forthcoming World Championships at the University of Bath. The Malaysian team have been training in Bath for a week ahead of the Yonex BWF World Championships, which get underway in Paris on Monday (23 August) and conclude on 29th August. Koon Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, ranked number one in the world in...
Two University of Bath graduates were today (Wednesday) selected to represent England in badminton at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Mariana Agathangelou and Heather Olver are members of England’s 10-strong badminton team for the Games, which take place in October. The pair, who both graduated from the University of Bath with degrees in Coach Education and Sports Development, joined forces to win the women’s doubles bronze medal at the European Championships in Manchester in April....
The University of Bath has become used to hosting some of the world's tops sports teams and individual stars but the renowned £30 million Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) is just about to get one of its toughest tests yet. In the next 16 days the Team Bath will host an Olympic-level team from Malaysia (12-20 August), 600 athletes in the UK Transplant Games (19-22 August) and the inaugural summer ParalympicsGB camp (25-30 August)....
