Hundreds of athletes with intellectual disabilities went into action on the opening day of the Bath 2013 Special Olympics GB National Summer Games. The University of Bath is the main host venue for the Games, hosting the athletes’ accommodation and nine of the 12 sports at the Games. Day one of the Games saw athletes from around the country taking part in a wide range of sports at the University, including athletics, boccia, football, gymnastics,...
The British team are celebrating a stunning day at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships today (Saturday) with the women wining team gold and Nick Woodbridge taking individual silver in the men’s competition. The trio of Kate French, Samantha Murray and Mhairi Spence - all University of Bath graduates - started an outstanding day in Chinese Taipei by successfully defending the title won by Murray, Spence and Heather Fell in Rome last year. And double Olympian...
Bath-based swimmer Stephanie Millward is celebrating an impressive haul of four gold medals from the IPC World Championships in Canada. Millward, who swims with the Aquae Sulis Performance Swimming Club, rounded off her campaign with a pair of golds on the final day of the championships in Montreal yesterday (Sunday). First she took gold in the S9 100m backstroke and she followed that up by helping the British team to gold in a world record...
Team Bath MCTA Academy player Sam Murray has achieved a career high world ranking of 189, making her the first Team Bath player to achieve a place in the world’s top-200. Murray has climbed almost 100 places in the rankings this season – she ended 2012 with a world ranking of 283. Back to back finals appearances at the Granby and Winnipeg ITF tournaments in Canada last month saw her progress to the top-200. And...
University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake struck gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France this morning. Blake added the T36 800m gold to the 400m title he won at the last World Championships in New Zealand two years ago. He did it in style at Lyon 2013, running from the front to claim Britain’s fourth gold of the championships in a personal best and championship record of 2:06.10. Blake, who is coached by...
University of Bath graduate Grace McCatty has won her second World University Games medal after the British women’s football team beat Mexico in last night’s (Monday) final to strike gold. The GB team ran out 6-2 winners in the final – scoring four second half goals after the two teams were all-square at 2-2 at half time. The result means that McCatty adds a 2013 World University Games gold to the bronze she won in...
Great Britain secured their third medal of the 2013 Modern Pentathlon European Championships as Kate French, Samantha Murray and Mhairi Spence won the women’s team gold in Poland today (Monday). And Freyja Prentice just missed out on an individual medal, coming home in fourth place in Drzonkow in her first major competition since recovering from a hamstring injury. Samantha Murray, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallist finished seventh in the individual competition, with Kate French...
University of Bath-based sprinter Danny Talbot is celebrating a brace of medals at the European Under-23 Championships in Finland. The 22-year-old, who is coached by Dan Cossins, won silver in the 200m and followed that up with gold in the 4x100m relay on yesterday’s (Sunday) final day of action in Tampere. Talbot ran the second leg in the relay final partnering Adam Gemili, Deji Tobais and Dannish Walker-Khan as the quartet set a new European...
University of Bath graduate and swimmer Michael Jamieson has been named British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Sportsman of the Year. The 24-year-old Sports Performance graduate was named winner of the prize at last night’s (Thursday) BUCS Awards Dinner. He said: “I’m delighted to have been named BUCS sportsman of the year. I owe a lot of thanks to the University for their support in the past few years, without whom I would not have...
The British trio of Katy Burke, Kate French and Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray made the perfect start to the Modern Pentathlon European Championships by winning team relay gold in Poland today (Thursday). The British team, who train at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the Unviersity of Bath, led from the fencing at the start of the day and followed that with consistent performances in the swim, ride and run/shoot to take the...
