Lizzy Yarnold claimed her second FIBT World Cup gold medal of the season and fellow Sochi 2014 Olympian Dominic Parsons finished just outside the medals on another impressive weekend for British Skeleton. Yarnold became the first slider to win two World Cup races this season as she completed her two runs at Königssee in an overall time of 1min 44.24secs, putting her a comfortable 0.71 ahead of Germany’s Anja Huber Selbach. Russia’s Maria Orlova took...
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold now has a gold and silver medal to her name in the 2014/15 FIBT Skeleton World Cup series after finishing runner-up in Altenberg, Germany, on Friday. Yarnold - who trains with British Skeleton whose national base is at the University of Bath - was just four-hundredths of a second slower than Russian rival Maria Orlova after two runs down the German track. It means the 26-year-old has finished on the podium...
Olympic and Paralympic titles, World Championship success and 27 Commonwealth Games medals are just some of the reasons that 2014 has been another unforgettable year of sport at the University of Bath. And the year ahead promises to be equally memorable, with the Modern Pentathlon European Championships and Australia’s Rugby World Cup squad both being hosted at the Sports Training Village. The undoubted highlight of 2014 came on Valentine’s Day when British Skeleton star Lizzy...
An Olympian, a World Cup medallist and a British Universities champion are the latest Team Bath Athlete of the Month Awards winners. Bobsleigh athlete John Jackson won the men’s award for February after driving the British four-man bob to fifth place at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The GBR1 crew of Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon, finished just 0.11 seconds off the bronze medal over four runs. It was a particularly...
The GBR1 four-man bobsleigh crew of John Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon just missed out on the medals in the final event of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The quartet, the last British athletes to compete at the Games, ended their campaign in fifth, just half a second off the Russian Federation 1 crew that took gold and 0.11 seconds off the bronze medal position. It means they secured the best...
Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson finished in 12th position in the 2-woman bobsleigh as the competition came to an end this evening at the Sochi Winter Olympics. The duo, who do part of their training at the University of Bath, maintained their solid start from yesterday’s heats to post a total time of 3:54.24. The third heat saw the pair post their slowest time of the competition, crossing the line in 58.88, but it was...
British Bobsleigh’s Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson took to the ice this afternoon as the women’s bobsleigh began at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. 2011 World Junior Champions Walker and Wilson were looking to post a competitive time today in their opening run. Walker was 10th overall in the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games of 2010 and, using that experience, the British duo started well enough. Despite a double tap early on in the run, they clocked a time of 58.36,...
The 2-man bobsleigh got under way at Sochi this afternoon (Sunday 16 February) with Olympic débutante Lamin Deen and late replacement John Baines taking to the ice for Team GB. The pair were only able to practice a handful of times in the build up to the Sochi Games. The experienced Baines was a late replacement for the injured Craig Pickering, but the duo didn’t seem let the change to the team hold them back....
The University of Bath push-start track was the setting for the latest Di v Darren challenge for Sky Sport’s popular Game Changers programme. Presenters Di Dougherty and Darren Campbell joined members of the British GBR 2 four-man bobsleigh crew at the track shortly before the crew headed off to Sochi for the Olympic Winter Games. The Sky Sports pair met crew members and then had a go on the track themselves. Campbell in particular is...
John Baines will step into the GBR 1 two-man bobsleigh seat vacated by the injured Craig Pickering at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Baines, who does some of his training at the University of Bath, will be Lamin Deen’s brakeman for the two-man bob. The duo raced together at the Americas Cup this season, achieving a number of top-10 results. Baines was already in the Team GB bobsleigh team for Sochi as a member...
