University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake rounded off his campaign at the International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships by striking gold in the T36 400m. Blake added gold on Saturday to the silvers he had already won in the 800m and 1500m on his overseas debut. It took the medal tally achieved by the University of Bath-based trio of Blake, Katrina Hart and Ben Rushgrove to eight of the 38 medals won by the Aviva...
University of Bath graduate Ben Rushgrove collected his second medal of the 2011 International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships today (Thursday) by taking bronze in the T36 200m. Rushgrove, who trains at the University with coach Rob Ellchuk, finished third in 200m final in Christchurch, New Zealand in 25.27 seconds. It means the three University of Bath-based athletes coached by Ellchuk have now medalled in each of the six events in which they have competed,...
University of Bath student Katrina Hart is celebrating after adding a World Championships crown to the Commonwealth Games title she won last year. The 20-year-old Sports Performance student struck gold in the T37 200m at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Christchurch yesterday (Sunday). Today she added a bronze in the T35-38 4×100m relay. And there have also been a brace of silvers medals for University of Bath-based athletes too, with Ben Rushgrove collecting...
University of Bath sporting alumnus, Shelley Rudman, pipped her team-mate and great rival Amy Williams, the Olympic champion, to European gold in Winterberg today during the sixth Skeleton World Cup there which doubles as the European Championships. The world cup win was Rudman’s first of the season after four previous runners-up slots and put her in pole position on the international rankings. The now Sheffield-based but former Wiltshire athlete, who was talent spotted into the...
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher has made a piece of history by becoming the first British athlete to win a World Championships medal in a Paralympic Alpine event. The Mathematics graduate and her guide, Charlotte Evans, took silver in the women’s visual-impaired slalom at Sestriere in Italy. "Charlotte helped me with getting down the slope really well, giving me really good instructions, so it was a good race," Gallagher said. Gold went to Henrieta...
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...
Mayor of Bath Councillor Shaun McGall has paid tribute to Bath-based athletes who competed at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The Mayor hosted a civic reception for athletes in the historic surroundings of the Mayor’s Parlour in the Guildhall. Athletes who train at the University of Bath and represented England, Scotland and Wales in Delhi attended the reception. They brought a fine collection of Commonwealth Games medals along with them. The Mayor said: “I wanted...
Bath’s Olympic golden girl Amy Williams was today presented with her MBE by The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. The University of Bath Sports Performance graduate received the honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List following her outstanding performance in winning skeleton gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games in March. Amy said: “I was really proud and pleased today. It’s a lovely medal, it’s really pretty, and it’s going to go alongside my...
New Zealand’s mighty All Blacks warmed up for their final autumn international with a training session at the University of Bath today (Tuesday). It’s the second time the All Blacks have trained at the University of Bath following an earlier visit four years ago. Victory over Wales in Saturday’s clash at the Millennium Stadium would give the All Blacks a remarkable seventh consecutive European tour clean sweep since Graham Henry became the team’s coach. Darren...
The British bobsleigh team has returned to its roots to train at the University of Bath. The partnership between British Bobsleigh and Team Bath was announced at a launch event at the Sports Training Village today (19 October) before the British crews head off around the world for the start of the new season. Michael Hoch, Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Sport, said: “We are delighted to add bobsleigh to the TeamBath family,...
