University of Bath-based athletes Jack Green and Dai Greene finished agonisingly close to the medals in the 4x400m relay, finishing just 0.13 seconds off the bronze medal place in fourth. Jack, a Sports Performance student, ran the second leg and handed the baton over to Dai, with Martyn Rooney taking the final leg and bringing Team GB home just behind the team from Trinidad and Tobago. Afterwards Dai, who had also finished fourth in the...
World champions Dai Greene and Mhairi Spence head an impressive list of 25 athletes preparing to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games who train at the University of Bath. Athletes who train at the University will compete in seven different sports at the Games – athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, judo, modern pentathlon, rhythmic gymnastics and swimming. The vast majority of Bath-based athletes at London 2012 will represent Great Britain, with one each for Egypt...
Four athletes who train at Pentathlon GB's High Performance Centre at the University of Bath were today (Friday) named in the British modern pentathlon team to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The quartet includes University of Bath French and Politics student Samantha Murray, as well as University alumni Mhairi Spence and Sam Weale. Nick Woodbridge completes the Team GB pentathlon team for the 2012 Games. Both Weale and Woodbridge are contesting their second...
University of Bath graduate Mhairi Spence achieved the London 2012 Olympic qualifying standard in style by winning gold at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Rome today (Saturday). And there was further success for the British team with University of Bath student Samantha Murray producing a terrific finish to take bronze and also achieve the Olympic qualifying standard. It means three British women have achieved the 2012 Olympic standard to date – Biology student Freyja...
University of Bath student Samantha Murray collected the first Modern Pentathlon World Cup medal of her career when she took bronze in Russia on Saturday. The 22-year-old French and Politics student followed up her fourth place in Hungary a week ago and sixth in the USA last month with the best result of her career to date. Her performance comes as the battle for places on the GB Olympic team intensifies – there were five...
Freyja Prentice and Lydia Rosling ended the Modern Pentathlon World Junior Championships on a high note by winning Great Britain’s third gold and fourth medal of the campaign. The pair collected gold in the women’s relay on the final day of the championships in Argentina today (Monday). It means the Great Britain team – which trains at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath - won golds on each of the...
Jamie Cooke is the new Modern Pentathlon World Junior Champion after wining individual gold in Argentina yesterday (Sunday). The 20-year-old, who trains at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath, had to recover from a disappointing fence that saw him start the day in joint 29th place. He recovered with another outstanding swim, clocking a 200m freestyle time of 1:53.56 to climb to seventh, then dropped just eight time penalties in...
University of Bath-based athletes Jamie Cooke and Freyja Prentice have become the first British modern pentathletes to achieve the qualifying standard to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Cooke achieved the qualifying standard by finishing fourth at the European Championships at Medway Park in Kent on Saturday (30 July). The 20-year-old’s performances included setting a world record for the modern pentathlon 200m freestyle. And Prentice followed that up by finishing eighth in the women’s...
Britain's Nick Woodbridge won the bronze medal at the Modern Pentathlon World Cup Final in London today (Saturday). Woodbridge, who trains at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath, became the British man to win a World Cup Final medal. "It's fantastic, especially to do it at the Olympic venue," said a delighted Woodbridge. "I've won two World Cup medals before, but to do it at a World Cup Final is...
University of Bath graduates Amy Williams and Sam Weale have been named winners of the British Olympic Association Athlete of the Year awards for their respective sports. Williams, a Sports Performance graduate, collected the bobsleigh/skeleton award after winning skeleton gold for Great Britain at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. She said: “I’m delighted to receive the BOA Olympic Athlete of the Year award. This caps a really special year for me, the highlight of...
