Netballer Emma Payne has been voted by their fellow student-athletes as the University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year in the 2023 Blues Awards. The Sport and Exercise Science student was recognised for her contribution to the University’s netball club over the past four years, which has seen her serve as Chair this year alongside helping the 1st team reach the BUCS National Championships final. She also plays for Team Bath Netball U21s in the NPL division and has...
University of Bath alumni Myles Pillage and Jess Varley teamed up to win mixed relay bronze for Pentathlon GB at the second UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the season in Ankara, Turkey. Pillage, who studied Biochemistry, and Natural Sciences graduate Varley were eighth going into the laser run after clocking the fastest swim of the day following some unfortunate penalties in the ride and difficulties in the fencing. Varley held that position before, inspired...
Five University of Bath students and three alumni have been selected by Pentathlon GB for the opening UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the 2023 season in Cairo, Egypt. Sport Management and Coaching student Charlie Brown will be making his World Cup debut at the competition, taking place from 7-12 March, off the back of a top-10 finish at the recent Hungarian Indoor Open. Ross Charlton (Sports Performance) also impressed in Budapest and joins Brown,...
Tickets are on sale for the UIPM Modern Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships 2023, a Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifying event coming to Bath this summer. There are just six months to go until the best all-round athletes on the planet do battle in swimming, fencing, horse riding and laser run at the University of Bath, home to Pentathlon GB’s world-leading National Training Centre. [caption id="attachment_68561" align="alignright" width="292"] Olympic Champion Kate French gives some...
Tokyo Olympian Jo Muir has announced her retirement from modern pentathlon after a successful decade on the Pentathlon GB high-performance programme at the University of Bath. Muir, who combined training with studying Sports Performance during the early stages of her career, is bowing out on a high note having won European Championships silver on her last international appearance in September. “I’ve had the most amazing 10 years on the World Class Programme for Pentathlon GB,”...
Eight University of Bath graduates, including both reigning Olympic Champions, and four current students have been named on Pentathlon GB’s World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) for 2023. It is a massive year for the pentathletes including the first qualification opportunities for Paris 2024, one of which is taking place at their home training venue when the University hosts the 2023 UIPM World Championships in August. All six athletes on the Podium programme combined study and...
World, European and Commonwealth champions were crowned, more than 100 international medals were won and new elite training centres were opened during another unforgettable year of sport at the University of Bath. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games saw 37 sportspeople who train, study or studied at the University of Bath – named as the University of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 – compete across nine different sports...
A new dedicated training facility for the world-leading Great Britain wheelchair fencing squad has today been officially opened at the University of Bath, along with a rehabilitation studio for athletes from other Olympic and Paralympic sports. World Champions and Tokyo 2020 medallists Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver, fresh from winning four gold medals apiece at the 2022 European Championships, treated guests from the University, the English Institute of Sport (EIS), British Fencing, UK Sport and...
University of Bath-based Olympic Champion Joe Choong and sporting scholar Emma Whitaker have both won Athlete of the Year honours in the UIPM 2022 Annual Awards for modern pentathlon. Choong – who studied Mathematics at the University, where he trains with Pentathlon GB – was named as Best Senior Male Pentathlete after winning the World Championship for the first time in July, completing his set of global titles. Sports Performance student Whitaker, supported by a...
University of Bath students Emma Whitaker and Charlie Brown struck mixed relay gold at the end of an impressive week for Pentathlon GB at the Modern Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Poland. Both had recorded top-ten finishes in Saturday’s individual finals, with Sports Performance student Whitaker – who is supported by a Santander Sporting Scholarship - placing fifth in the women’s competition and Sports Management & Coaching student Brown finishing eighth in the men’s event....
