University of Bath student Joe Choong recorded a top-five finish at the German Open Championships in Berlin during his first international modern pentathlon appearance of 2017. The Rio 2016 Olympian and ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church sat in the top six throughout the day and was the highest-placed overseas athlete, with the top four spots going to German competitors. Choong took a break after the Olympics to focus on his Mathematics studies but...
Joe Choong is a Mathematics student at the University of Bath and an Olympic athlete with Pentathlon GB. Helping him excel on both the sporting and academic front is a bursary from Team Bath partners MJ Church, the Marshfield-based Civil Engineering, Plant, Transport and Waste Management Contractors. As he prepares to return to international competition, here is Joe's latest blog as a MJ Church Sporting Ambassador... "Last year I had my most successful year in sport, which...
University of Bath graduate Kate French won the first World Cup gold of her career during an excellent weekend of competition for Pentathlon GB. Jo Muir and Myles Pillage also secured silver in the mixed relay in Cairo, Egypt, while Psychology student Charlie Follett was runner-up at the Swiss Women International in Bern. Rio 2016 Olympian French has been in fantastic form this year and recorded one of the most emphatic modern pentathlon victories in...
Jan Bartu, one of the longest-serving and most consistently successful performance directors in British sport, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bath. Bartu has built and then led the PentathlonGB Performance programme, based at the University since 1998, and supported athletes to win a total of five Olympic medals, including a gold from Steph Cook at the Sydney 2000 Games. Already a member of the University’s Hall of Fame, Bartu received...
The University of Bath has become the latest university to complete UK Anti-Doping (UKAD)’s Accreditation Programme. The University has shown its firm commitment and dedication to clean sport by completing the programme and achieving the highest level of ‘elite status’. The Accreditation Programme was launched in 2012 to recognise and enhance the work being conducted by universities, colleges and schools in the UK, in support of UKAD’s prevention strategy and vision of clean sport. The...
University of Bath graduate Kate French made a superb start to the 2017 Modern Pentathlon World Cup season as she won silver at the opening competition in Los Angeles. The Rio 2016 Olympian was seventh going into the decisive laser run-shoot but surged through the field to finish runner-up to Germany’s Lena Schoneborn, pulling away from third-placed Ekaterina Khuraskina of Russia in the final 50m. “I’m really happy to start my season with a medal,”...
There was a sense of déjà vu at the University of Bath over the weekend as Kate French, Sam Curry, Olivia Green and Oliver Murray all won their second Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competitions of the year. The senior event on Sunday saw Rio 2016 Olympian and Sports Performance graduate French (pictured) finish 45 points clear of Natural Sciences student Jess Varley, who is supported by the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS). Jo Muir, another...
The country’s top modern pentathletes will once again be in action at the University of Bath over the weekend as they contest the second Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition of 2017. The U19s are up first in the Youth category on Saturday, featuring athletes from clubs across the country as well as a small contingent of German pentathletes to add an international flavour to the competition. It is then the turn of the seniors on...
Champions aren't made in the gym. When promising young modern pentathlete Sarah Collin suffered a stress fracture in her hip, the real test of her character began. Collin, who moved to the University of Bath to join the Pentathlon GB setup, had won an international medal after being in the sport for as little as a year and her talent was identified by coaches keen for her to fulfill her potential. She made her move...
Olympic modern pentathlon silver medallist Heather Fell will run alongside 100 staff and students from the University of Bath for the 2017 Vitality Bath Half Marathon. The aim is to raise £20,000 for RAG – the “raise and give” fundraising group which, like the University itself, is marking its 50th birthday. Proceeds will go to local charities including the Trauma Recovery Centre (Bath), The Forever Friends Appeal at the RUH, CLIC Sargent, Bath Rugby Foundation...
