Golden girl Amy Williams and her fellow University of Bath-based British Olympic Winter Games athletes have returned to Bath today. Amy became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years when she topped the podium in the skeleton at the Vancouver 2010 Games. The 27-year-old produced a stunning performance to become Britain’s first Olympic skeleton gold medallist, winning the title by an emphatic 0.56 seconds on her Olympic debut. Her first...
University of Bath-based Olympic champion Amy Williams will carry the Union Flag for Team GB at Sunday’s Vancouver 2010 closing ceremony. The British Olympic Association today announced its decision to choose Amy to carry the flag, following her gold medal winning performance in the skeleton on 19th February. Amy became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years and the first woman individual gold medallist for 58 years. She said: “What...
University of Bath-based bobsleigh athlete Paula Walker secured a impressive 11th place finish on her Olympic debut in Vancouver. Paula, who drove the GBR 2 sled along with brakeman Kelly Thomas, finished 11th after the four runs making up the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games competition. Paula, who is 23, said: “This is our first Olympic Winter Games and we’re absolutely over the moon that we’ve come so far. Eleventh is higher than our world...
University of Bath based skeleton athlete Adam Pengilly has been elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes. Pengilly received the most votes (615) from the total number of ballots accepted (1,902), which represents 75.3 per cent of the Olympic athletes at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Pengilly will serve for a term of eight years and become an IOC member during that period. The role of the IOC Athletes' Commission is to ensure...
University of Bath-based skeleton slider Amy Williams today (Friday) became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years and the first woman individual gold medallist for 58 years. The 27-year-old won the women’s skeleton title at Vancouver 2010 Olympic by an emphatic 0.56 seconds. Williams said she was delighted with her gold medal. "It's absolutely brilliant. It's out of this world. Never in a million years did I think I'd come...
Team GB’s Amy Williams goes into the second and final day of the skeleton competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games with a 0.30 second lead. The 27-year-old from Bath was in scintillating form on the opening day of skeleton competition at the Whistler Sliding Centre, setting a track record on her first run and clocking the second fastest time on the second. She goes into the final two runs tomorrow (Friday) 0.30 seconds...
Team GB's Zoe Gillings missed out on the medals at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, finishing eighth overall. Snowboarder Zoe, who does some of her land-based training at the University of Bath, battled her way through to the semi-finals of the competition at Cypress Mountain. But a third place finish in her semi put her into the small final, rather than the big final, where the medals are contested. An injury she sustained to...
Talan Skeels-Piggins, who does some of his land-based training at the University of Bath, has been selected to make his Paralympic Games debut at Vancouver 2010. Talan has been named in ParalympicsGB's six-strong ski team to compete at the Vancouver Paralympic Games, which take place in March. Talan shattered his spine and fractured his neck in a motorcycle accident in March, 2003. He has tackled a number of sports since the accident and has now...
University of Bath-based athletes Adam Pengilly and Amy Williams were today (Friday) selected to represent Great Britain at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. They are members a four-strong Team GB skeleton team that also includes Shelley Rudman and Kristan Bromley. Pengilly competes at his second successive Olympic Winter Games. Eighth in Turin in 2006, he won silver at the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid in the USA and is currently ranked 18th in...
Liu Zige, one of the world's top swimmers and China's only swimming gold medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, has spent two weeks training at British Swimming's Intensive Training Centre at the University of Bath. Liu set a world record to strike gold in the 200m butterfly at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games, making her one of China's stars of the Games. She went on to take silver in the same discipline at last...
