Rugby players, footballers and judo players feature in the latest batch of University of Bath-based athletes selected to represent Great Britain at this summer’s World University Games in Russia. University of Bath students Amy Wilson-Hardy and graduates Katie Mason and Deb Fleming are named in the GB women’s rugby sevens team for the Games, which take place in the city of Kazan. Mason, a Sport and Exercise Science graduate, is one of four members of...
University of Bath student and judo player Jan Gosiewski has achieved the biggest win of his career to date by taking silver at the European Open in Estonia. Gosiewski, who is studying for an MSc in Design Engineering at the University after already graduating with a Mechanical Engineering degree, took silver in the under-73kg class in Tallinn on Saturday. After winning his opening four contests, Gosiewski went down to Israel’s Sagi Muki in the final....
Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey dedicated his first African Championships medal to the memory of his father, who died 10 years ago. The Ghanaian London 2012 Olympian won bronze in the under-73kg class at the championships in Maputo, Mozambique. “It was emotional week for me, but I got there in the end,” he said, who won his medal on Friday, the day after his 30th birthday. Nartey won his opening two preliminary round contests...
Four Team Bath judo players have been selected for the British team to compete at this month’s European Championships. It means Team Bath judo players make up a quarter of the 16-strong GB team in action in Hungary. The British team includes the brother and sister pair of Ben and Megan Fletcher. Ben goes in the under-100kg competition with Megan contesting the women’s under-70kg class. University of Bath student Jan Gosiewski goes in the under-73kg...
Team Bath judo players had another impressive weekend, collecting four medals at the Buenos Aires Pan-American Open in Argentina. Gregg Varey beat fellow Brit Graham Trinder in the third place contest to take bronze in the men’s under-60kg class. Varey found himself in the bronze medal match after losing to Russia’s reigning Olympic champion Arsen Galstyan, in his third preliminary round fight. The Russian went on to win the title in Buenos Aires. Ghana’s Emmanuel...
Team Bath judo player Ben Fletcher has secured the biggest win of his career to date by taking gold at the Pan-American Open in Uruguay. Fletcher (pictured) beat Brazil’s 2007 world champion Luciano Correa in the final of the over the under-100kg class to take gold in Montevideo. Juergen Klinger, head judo coach at the University of Bath, said: “It was a fantastic result for Ben, especially as it’s his first year as a senior...
Megan Fletcher led the way as Team Bath judo players collected a haul of medals at the 2013 British Championships. Fletcher took gold in the women’s under-70kg class at Sheffield to add her first senior British Championship title to her cadet and junior titles. She beat Amy Livesey in the final. There was a bronze in the same weight category for Natasha Maslen, a Sports Performance student at the University of Bath. Team Bath judo...
BBC One’s Superstars 2012 one-off Olympic special was screened on Saturday 29 December. Sixteen British Olympic medallists from London 2012 battled it out for supremacy for show, much of which was filmed at the University of Bath Sports Training Village last month. University of Bath Sports Performance student and Bath Intensive Training Centre swimmer Michael Jamieson was among the eight guys in action. The Olympic silver medallist was joined by 5000m and 10000m gold medallist...
There was an impressive double for past and present University of Bath based athletes at the annual Army Sports Awards, with judo player Emmanuel Nartey and rower Heather Stanning winning two of the top awards. Nartey, a Trooper in the British Army and Team Bath judo player, was named the Army’s Sportsman of the Year. Nartey became the first judo player to represent Ghana at an Olympics when he competed at the London 2012 Games....
Judo player Andy Burns and tennis player Samantha Murray are Team Bath’s latest athletes of the month. Burns was named winner of the men’s award after taking gold at the World Cup event in Belarus. Murray won the women’s award after becoming the first Team Bath MCTA tennis player to win a Challenger tournament, when she triumphed in Glasgow. Burns collected his award from Tyron Dawkins, Oakley UK’s Brand Ambassador. Murray was playing overseas and...
