Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey has won his first World Cup title, taking gold at Apia in Samoa. Nartey beat Chinese fighter Qindong Zeng in the under-73kg class final to win the title. Nartey, who serves in the British Army and represents Ghana, was trailing the Chinese player with 30 seconds of the final remaining – but then threw him for a contest-winning Ippon score. “It’s the first time I’ve won a World Cup,”...
University of Bath students Kate Walker and Jan Gosiewski both finished just outside the medals in seventh place at the European Under-23 Judo Championships in Turkey. Pharmacy student Walker won the opening two contests in her pool in the women’s under-63kg class, beating Andreja Dakovic of Croatia and Ivana Komlosiova of Slovakia, before going down to Hungary’s Eszter Gaspar, who went on to win bronze. That put Walker in the repechage, but she lost out...
Two University of Bath students are set to compete for Great Britain at the Under-23 European Judo Championships, which take place in Turkey this weekend. Medical Engineering student Jan Gosiewski competes in the men’s under-73kg class while Kate Walker (pictured), who is studying for a Pharmacy degree, goes in the women’s under-63kg class. They are joined in the GB team by Sports Performance graduate Gemma Gibbons, who graduated from the university in the summer. The...
Team Bath judo players Tom Reed and Sian Wilson both won medals at the GB World Cup event in Birmingham at the weekend. Reed, a University of Bath Business Administration student, lost a closely contested final in the under-81kg class to fellow Brit Euan Burton, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Reed (pictured) had earlier dispatched a couple of Russians and a German to get to the final – beating Salamu...
Team Bath judo player Darrren Harris struck bronze at the visually impaired European Championships in Hungary. Harris, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, beat Ilkin Alishov of Azerbaijan in the bronze medal contest at the championships in Debrecen. He started his campaign in the under-66kg class with a bye and then beat Spain’s Antonio Lopez in the second round. But defeat at the hands of Russia’s Nukh Salikhov saw Harris go...
Team Bath judo player Darren Harris has been selected to represent Great Britain at next month’s Visually Impaired European Championships in Hungary. Darren is a member of Britain’s five-strong team for the championships, which take place in Debrecen from 3-5 July. He contests the under-66kg class, the division in which he competed at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. Last month Darren won gold in the under-66kg class at the German Open, when he also collected...
University of Bath student Marcon Bezzina has won her sixth medal at the Games of the Small States of Europe. Bezzina won bronze for Malta in the under-63kg class judo competition at the Games in Cyprus. It was her sixth medal at the Games of the Small States of Europe following her bronze in the individual competition and silver in the team event on her debut in 2003, her gold in the individual and silver...
After storming to a sensational silver in the T36 100m final on his Paralympic debut, the University of Bath's Ben Rushgrove has today learned that he will not be competing in Monday's 200m heats. The 20 year old sprinter aggravated a foot injury in his medal winning display and walked up to collect his medal on crutches. He could have risked long term damage and decided not to compete on the advice of the ParalympicsGB...
Tomorrow sees the start of competition at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, where several University of Bath based athletes will be representing Britain. Sprinter Ben Rushgrove and his coach Rob Ellchuk, swimmer Kate Grey and judo player Darren Harris will be going into action less than two weeks after the University of Bath based Craig Pickering, Dale Garland, Mark Foster and the entire Team GB modern pentathlon contingent returned from competing in the able-bodied Games....
A total of nine athletes and four coaches representing three countries competing at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games train at the University of Bath's state of the art facilities. Beijing 2008 was the fifth Olympic experience for University of Bath Swimming Club's Mark Foster, who was Team GB flag bearer along with Maltese judoka Marcon Bezzina, who had the honour of leading the Maltese contingent out at the Opening Ceremony. The entire Team GB modern...
