Team Bath’s Chris Coles reached the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at badminton’s World Junior Championships in Mexico. Coles and partner Matthew Nottingham beat the Korean pair of Bong Chan Jun and Ki Hwa Jung to book a quarter-final berth, but then went down to Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Rasmus Fladberg. In the mixed doubles Coles and partner Jessica Fletcher went out in their opening contest to Korea’s Ji Wook Kang and Hye In Choi,...
University of Bath graduates Heather Olver and Mariana Agathangelou joined forces to win the women’s doubles bronze medal at badminton’s European Championships in Manchester at the weekend. The pair went down to top seeds and eventual silver medallists Petya Nedelcheva (BUL) and Anastasia Russkikh (RUS) 21-18 21-13 in the semi-finals. Meanwhile Carl Baxter reached the quarter-finals of the men’s singles before losing to top seed Peter Gade from Denmark, who went on to win the...
Josh Green is the new U19 National men’s singles badminton champion but he had to beat his colleague and training partner, Ben Tier, in the national final to lift the trophy in Milton Keynes recently. Josh is currently studying on a sports apprenticeship course at Wiltshire College and trains as part of coach Pete Bush’s squad at the University of Bath alongside his opponent Tier who is studying for a foundation degree. Chris Coles, also...
University of Bath graduate and badminton player Heather Olver is forming a new mixed doubles partnership with European mixed doubles champion Anthony Clark. The 23-year-old has been asked to partner Clark following the retirement of Donna Kellogg. The pair will play their first tournament together at the Proton Malaysia Open in January. Heather graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development in 2008. In 2007 she received a...
Japan took the honours in an exciting evening of top-flight international badminton at the University of Bath, beating Team England 4-1. England’s sole victory of the evening came in the opening contest of the evening, with Athens 2004 Olympic silver medallist Nathan Robertson and partner Jenny Wallwork winning the mixed doubles. And the audience at the Sports Training Village also saw 17-year-old Jessica Fletcher make her senior England debut playing in the women’s doubles as...
Nathan Robertson will make his first home appearance since reaching 100 caps when he represents Team England in the international badminton match with Japan at the University of Bath tomorrow (Fri, 6.45pm). And the 2004 Olympic silver medallist and reigning Commonwealth mixed doubles champion expects Japan to be out for revenge after Center Parcs-supported Team England’s 4-1 win when the two nations last met in the Sudirman Cup world mixed team championships in the Chinese...
England’s Olympic badminton star Nathan Robertson is convinced that an enthusiastic crowd will give the national team the lift it needs in Bath against a strong Japanese line-up next week (Friday 16 September at 6.45pm) in a preview of what he hopes will be the impact of a home Games in 2012. “We don’t get enough opportunity to play in England in front of a home crowd”, said the Athens Olympic silver medallist about the...
Athens 2004 Olympic silver medallist Nathan Robertson is named in one of Team England’s strongest badminton squads for the forthcoming international match against Japan at the University of Bath. The squad features all four of the six-strong Great Britain badminton team at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games who are still playing competitive badminton. Tickets are still available for the big night of badminton action, which gets underway at the Sports Training Village at 6.45pm on...
International badminton comes to the University of Bath next month when the Sports Training Village hosts a Team England match against Japan. The match, which gets underway at 6.45pm on Friday 16 October, is the first international badminton fixture to take place at the University. For Team England, which is supported by Center Parcs, it is a prelude to the 100th All England Open Championships in Birmingham in March and the European Individual Championships in...
Team Bath players Emily Hollis and Chris Coles were both triumphant in the finals of Badminton England’s Yehlex Under-18 Circuit competitions. The pair, who are both Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (AASE) students at the University of Bath, collected doubles titles at the climax to the under-18 circuit season at Milton Keynes. The competitions featured the top-four ranked pairings at the end of the circuit tournaments. Emily Hollis and her partner Amber Gregory beat Natasha...
