University of Bath graduate Katherine Endacott added a gold medal in the 4x100m relay to the individual 100m medal she won earlier this week. The Coach Education and Sports Performance graduate led off the England quartet that took gold ahead of Ghana and India today. Endacott, who lives in Plymouth, has also learned today that her individual 100m bronze has now been upgraded to silver following the disqualification of Nigeria’s Osayemi Oludamola. Former University of...
Team Bath Buccaneers men’s firsts kept up the pressure at the top of England Hockey League Conference West with a 5-1 win over Bournville. The prolific Tim Davenport rattled off a hat-trick for Buccs inside the first 13 minutes of Saturday’s win over Bournville – his three-goal salvo came within the space of four minutes with goals on the ninth, 12th and 13th minutes. Shaun Matthews added a fourth midway through the first half and...
University of Bath graduate Katherine Endacott has won a surprise bronze medal at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 30-year-old Coach Education and Sports Performance graduate crossed the finish line in fourth place in the 100m yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. But she was upgraded to a podium place after Australia’s Sally Pearson was later disqualified for a false start. Endacott ran a personal best time of 11.44 in the final at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in...
University of Bath graduates Mhairi Spence and Louise Helyer helped Scotland to a silver medal at the Commonwealth Fencing Championships in Australia. The pair are members of Britain’s modern pentathlon team and train at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the University of Bath. They helped the Scotland team finish runners-up to the host nation in the women’s team epee competition at the championships in Melbourne. Scotland beat Singapore 45/30 in the quarter-finals and...
University of Bath Sports Performance student Katrina Hart struck gold at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games this afternoon (Thursday). The 20-year-old Paralympic athlete sprinted to gold in the T37 100m final to claim England’s first athletics gold medal of the Games. And she did it in style, setting a British record of 14.36 seconds. She becomes the first University of Bath-based athlete to claim a medal in Delhi. Hart, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk...
England’s badminton team spent time honing their Commonwealth Games preparations at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. The 10-strong team held a training camp at the Sports Training Village ahead of their trip to Delhi for the Games. Three members of the team were on particularly familiar territory – Mariana Agathangelou (pictured), Carl Baxter and Heather Olver are all University of Bath graduates and are set to make their Commonwealth Games debuts in Delhi....
The University of Bath-based Britain women’s modern pentathlon team today (Saturday) won the team silver medal at the World Championships in China. Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medallist Heather Fell was the highest placed British finisher in the individual competition in eighth. Team-mate Freyja Prentice, aged 20, produced the third fastest run/shoot of the day, climbing from 16th going into the run/shoot to end the day in a creditable ninth. Twenty-year-old Samantha Murray, competing at her...
The curtain came down last night on the first major ParalympicsGB 2012 preparation camp at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village – an event which proved to be a resounding success. 160 athletes from 14 sports experienced the facilities and services on offer at Team Bath as they trained across a five-day period which included the two-years to go marker to London 2012 on Sunday. A further two camps are planned in August 2011...
University of Bath student Katrina Hart and Team Bath AC runner Holly Rush were today named in England’s athletics team for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. They are joined in the team by hurdler Lawrence Clarke, who trains at the University of Bath, and by University of Bath graduates Marilyn Okoro and Katherine Endacott. Hart, who is studying Sports Performance at the University and is coached by Rob Ellchuk, is selected for the T37 100m,...
Malaysian players finalise World Championship preparations in Bath Some of the world’s top badminton players have been finalising preparations for the forthcoming World Championships at the University of Bath. The Malaysian team have been training in Bath for a week ahead of the Yonex BWF World Championships, which get underway in Paris on Monday (23 August) and conclude on 29th August. Koon Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, ranked number one in the world in...
