University of Bath-based European champion hurdler Dai Greene has been selected to represent Wales at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 24-year-old struck gold in the 400m hurdles at the European Championships in Barcelona three weeks ago. He has now been named in the 22-strong Wales athletics team for October’s Commonwealth Games, along with training partner Rhys Williams, who won silver at the European Championships. Greene said: “I’m really proud to be selected for Wales...
Two University of Bath graduates were today (Wednesday) selected to represent England in badminton at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Mariana Agathangelou and Heather Olver are members of England’s 10-strong badminton team for the Games, which take place in October. The pair, who both graduated from the University of Bath with degrees in Coach Education and Sports Development, joined forces to win the women’s doubles bronze medal at the European Championships in Manchester in April....
University of Bath-based swimmer Liz Johnson has won a bronze medal at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Holland. The 25-year-old swimmer came home third in the SB6 100m breaststroke final in Eindhoven last night (Monday). Gold went to America’s Mallory Weggemann in a world record time of 1:35.51, with Britain’s Charlotte Henshaw taking silver, just 0.14 seconds ahead of Johnson, who came home in 1:39.88. Mallory had earlier taken a massive 12 seconds off...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Richard Gabb is celebrating after winning a brace of national titles at under-18 level. Gabb won both the boys’ singles and the boys’ doubles titles at the AEGON British Junior Under-18 National Championships at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. Seeded five for the singles, he beat sixth seed Lewis Burton in straights sets 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 to win the final. He had earlier despatched number four seed Tom Allen...
Team Bath’s tennis players have clocked up a trio of national titles in two years. The boys U18 squad picked up the Aegon National Junior Club League title at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton last weekend to add to titles previously won in the U16 boys and U16 girls age-groups. Chris Helliar, Max England, Stephen Crawshaw, Toby Mitchell and Dan Elston beat Hampshire Club 8-2 in the final at Roehampton after a 10-2 win...
The University of Bath has become used to hosting some of the world's tops sports teams and individual stars but the renowned £30 million Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) is just about to get one of its toughest tests yet. In the next 16 days the Team Bath will host an Olympic-level team from Malaysia (12-20 August), 600 athletes in the UK Transplant Games (19-22 August) and the inaugural summer ParalympicsGB camp (25-30 August)....
Britain’s Freyja Prentice won the individual silver medal and helped Great Britain capture team gold at the modern pentathlon World Junior Championships in Hungary today (Saturday). The 20-year-old climbed from fifth place going into the final event, the combined run/shoot, to cross the finish line second just four seconds behind Hungary’s Sarolta Kovacs. Prentice, who is studying for a Biology degree at the University of Bath and trains at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre,...
European champion Dai Greene returned to his University of Bath training base to prepare for his next big challenge – the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Greene, who equalled the second best British time for the 400m hurdles to win gold for in Barcelona on Saturday, said it was fantastic to return to the Sports Training Village clutching a gold medal. “All the hard work through the winter months has paid off,” said Greene, who is coached...
University of Bath-based swimmer Michael Jamieson has been named in Scotland’s swimming team for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 22-year-old breaststroker is coached by David McNulty at the British Gas ITC Bath. He is a member of the 21-strong swimming squad named by Commonwealth Games Scotland for the Games. Jamieson will contest the 100m and 200m breaststroke in Delhi. Three other University of Bath-based swimmers have already been selected to compete for England at...
Two University of Bath students are to feature in the British Universities rugby sevens team at the World University Championships, which get underway in Portugal tomorrow (Wednesday). Izzy Noel-Smith and Natasha Hunt both feature in a 12-strong British team at the championships Izzy applied for and received a grant from the University of Bath’s Alumni Fund to contribute to some of the costs of competing at the championships. The championships take place in Porto, beginning...
