Team Bath and sportspeople who train at the University of Bath are well represented on the shortlist of finalists in the 2018 Bath Sports Awards. Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold is in contention for the Sports Personality of the Year award, a title she previously won in 2015, along with Team Bath Netball captain Eboni Beckford-Chambers and fellow England Netball team-mate Kadeen Corbin – they helped the Roses to a historic gold at the Gold Coast...
The University of Bath Sports Training Village is home to another world champion after Pentathlon GB’s Jamie Cooke produced a stunning finish to take gold at the 2018 Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Mexico City. The Rio 2016 Olympian was in contention throughout but only took the lead for the first time with his last step of an epic laser-run, out-sprinting Pavlo Tymoshchenko and Valentin Prades to become the first British pentathlete to win a...
University of Bath sporting scholar Myles Pillage will make his Senior World Championships individual debut in Mexico next month after being named in an eight-strong Pentathlon GB squad for the 2018 edition. Fellow junior Zoe Davison will also make the step up after finishing a fine fourth in the women's competition at the Junior World Championships earlier this month. Biochemistry student Pillage, supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship, has previously competed in three relays at...
Young Pentathlon GB athletes finished just outside the medals as they produced some impressive performances at the 2018 Junior World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Kladno, Czech Republic. The week started with University of Bath sporting scholars Myles Pillage and Bradley Sutton, who study Biochemistry and Sports Performance respectively, finishing a fine fifth in the men’s relay. Pillage, supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship, also qualified for the men’s individual final on Sunday where he sat...
Pentathlon GB won medals in both the men’s and women’s individual competitions for the first time at a European Championships as Kate French and Joe Choong both recorded excellent podium finishes in Hungary. Sports Performance graduate French continued her superb form to win silver on Saturday, her first medal at a major international championships. The celebrations continued 24 hours later as MJ Church Ambassador Choong, fresh from graduating from the University of Bath in Mathematics,...
On the day that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games schedule was released, it was two Rio 2016 Olympians that joined forces for Pentathlon GB as Jamie Cooke and Joe Choong finished fourth in the men’s relay at the European Championships in Hungary. It was the second time in three years that the University of Bath-based duo had teamed up in the European relay and their 2016 result was repeated as the Brits narrowly missed out...
Just as Pentathlon GB’s current crop of world stars leave for this year’s European Championships in Hungary, they are already looking forward to enjoying home advantage at the same event next year when Tokyo 2020 places will be up for grabs. The National Lottery funded 2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships will take place at the University of Bath, home of Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre, from August 6-11, 2019. The Championships, dubbed “Gladiators Return”, will...
University of Bath sporting scholars Myles Pillage and Bradley Sutton claimed Pentathlon GB’s second relay medal is as many days at the Junior European Modern Pentathlon Championships as they bagged bronze in the men’s competition in Barcelona. Just like female counterparts Charlie Follett and Zoe Davison, who had won women’s relay gold the previous day, Pillage and Sutton – supported by Trendell and Santander Sports Scholarships respectively – were in the medal positions at the...
University of Bath student Charlie Follett teamed up with Zoe Davison to win women’s relay gold after a supreme display at the Junior European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Barcelona. Follett, who studies Psychology, and Davison were in the top two places throughout the day, retaking the lead after a perfect display in the horse-riding arena and not looking back after a dominant display of front running in the laser run. It continued a fine season...
Rio 2016 Olympians Kate French and Joe Choong were crowned as the new British Modern Pentathlon Champions after a thrilling day of competition at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Sports Performance graduate French, fresh from winning World Cup gold in Bulgaria, overtook Holly Parker on the second 800m loop in the decisive run-shoot discipline and went on to record an ultimately convincing win. Parker, producing arguably the best performance of her career so...
