Skeleton World Champion Lizzy Yarnold and Piers Gilliver, the world’s number one wheelchair fencer, were among the University of Bath-based athletes honoured at the 2015 Bath Chronicle Sports Award. The winners collected their prizes during a ceremony hosted by television broadcaster John Inverdale at Bath Racecourse, with Team Bath Netball U16s receiving the Junior Team of the Year award after reaching the national finals for the first time in a decade. Yarnold retained the Professional...
There is plenty of home interest on Court 1 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Thursday as the Aegon GB Pro-Series tennis tournament reaches its latter stages. Team Bath MCTA’s Lisa Whybourn (pictured left) is first on court as she looks to reach the last eight of the women’s $25k competition. Her match against Georgia’s Mariam Bolkvadze will be followed by a men’s quarter-final between Ireland’s Sam Barry and Richard Gabb, another Team Bath MCTA...
University of Bath tennis ace Emma Hurst will be looking to continue her winning form on home turf when she faces the number two seed in the Aegon GB Pro-Series women’s $25k tournament on Wednesday. And there will also be local interest in the men’s singles as Team Bath MCTA’s Richard Gabb looks to book his place in the quarter-finals of the $15k competition. Sport & Exercise Science student Hurst, a 2014-15 Trendell Sport Scholar...
The $15k men’s singles tournament gets under way in earnest on Tuesday as the week-long Aegon GB Pro-Series Tennis Event at the University of Bath ramps up. After two hard-fought days of qualification, the last 32 men are now in place and all 16 first-round matches will take place during another busy day of competition at the Sports Training Village. Number one seed Tom Kocevar-Desman of Slovenia will start his title bid against Germany’s Tom...
Team Bath Judo Club’s Ben Fletcher gained more valuable qualification points on the road to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as he struck gold at the African Open Championships in Mauritius. The 23-year-old, coached by Juergen Klinger at the University of Bath, dominated all of his fights in the under-100kg weight division to claim the third international title of his career and his second in 2015, following his success in Tunis in January. After overcoming...
It promises to be an action-packed day on the tennis courts at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Monday as the Aegon GB Pro-Series Event gets into full swing. The men, who got the week-long international professional event under way on Monday, return for the third qualifying round of their $15K tournament while the women begin their bid to earn a place in the main draw of their $25k competition. Among those taking part...
Jazz Carlin continued her good form at the FINA/airweave World Cup by winning three medals on the Dubai leg. The National Performance Centre Bath swimmer, coached by Dave McNulty and Graeme Antwhistle at the Sports Training Village, clocked 8:30.79 to win silver in the 800m freestyle. She had earlier won bronze in the 200m freestyle and returned to the pool the following day to also finish third in the 400m freestyle. Carlin, who won 400m and...
Great Britain Bobsleigh's Youth Olympic hopefuls got their season off to a stunning start as they dominated the medal table in Calgary. GB won eight medals in the opening two races of a seven-race season that will determine who qualifies for the second Youth Olympics in Lillehammer in February 2016. Kelsea Purchall and Annabel Chaffey claimed a gold medal apiece in Canada, with Purchall winning Race 1 on Wednesday night and Chaffey repeating the feat...
Tennis fans can watch some of the world’s top up-and-coming stars in action for free this week when the Aegon GB Pro-Series Event returns to the University of Bath for a tenth successive year. Former Australian Open finalist Jo Wilfried-Tsonga and fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are among past winners of the week-long ITF Pro Circuit event, which is run by the LTA and starts on Sunday, November 8. Big-serving Australian Sam Groth and Spain’s Roberto Bautista-Agut...
Jazz Carlin won two of nine medals for British swimmers at the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015 in Doha. The National Performance Centre Bath swimmer, coached by Dave McNulty and Graeme Antwhistle at the Sports Training Village, took 800m freestyle silver on Monday in 8:27.25. Gold went to New Zealand’s Lauren Boyle and Germany’s Sarah Kohler took bronze. Carlin then returned to the Hamad Aquatic Centre podium on the second evening to accept her 400m freestyle silver. She clocked 4:07.42, with...
