Tomorrow sees the start of competition at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, where several University of Bath based athletes will be representing Britain. Sprinter Ben Rushgrove and his coach Rob Ellchuk, swimmer Kate Grey and judo player Darren Harris will be going into action less than two weeks after the University of Bath based Craig Pickering, Dale Garland, Mark Foster and the entire Team GB modern pentathlon contingent returned from competing in the able-bodied Games....
Team GB's Heather Fell made sure of continuing the nation's outstanding Olympic track record in modern pentathlon by winning silver today. The medal; coming on the back of Steph Cook and Kate Allenby's gold and bronze in Sydney and George Harland's bronze in Athens; is a tribute to the PentathlonGB programme which is run from the University of Bath Sports Training Village's specialist sports facilities by Performance Director Jan Bartu and his team of coaches....
University of Bath based Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale will tomorrow become the first male modern pentathletes to represent Team GB at an Olympic Games since Atlanta 1996. The action begins for Team Bath's Katy Livingston and Heather Fell; the following day (Friday 22 August) with the start of the women's event. Team GB has a formidable Olympic track record, having won half of the medals on offer since the women's event was added to...
A total of nine athletes and four coaches representing three countries competing at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games train at the University of Bath's state of the art facilities. Beijing 2008 was the fifth Olympic experience for University of Bath Swimming Club's Mark Foster, who was Team GB flag bearer along with Maltese judoka Marcon Bezzina, who had the honour of leading the Maltese contingent out at the Opening Ceremony. The entire Team GB modern...
The University of Bath based duo of swimmer Mark Foster and Judo player Marcon Bezzina stepped out in front of 91,000 screaming spectators to lead their contingents into the impressive Bird's Nest Stadium at yesterday's Opening Ceremony. The 38 year old Foster, competes at his fifth Olympic Games flew the flag for Team GB, while Bezzina, who represents Malta for her second consecutive Games had the honour of leading out the Maltese team. "Walking around...
University of Bath-based swimmer Mark Foster has been asked to beflag-bearer for Great Britain at the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The news means that he is the second Team Bath athlete at consecutive Games to carry the honour, after Sydney 2000 silver medallist and judo player Kate Howey was bearer at Athens 2004. Foster, who also had the privilege of bearing the flag for England at the Kuala Lumpur 1998 Commonwealth Games,...
University of Bath graduate and hockey player Richard Mantell is looking forward to competing at his first Olympic Games. The 26-year-old is a member of Team GB's 16-strong squad for the Beijing2008 Games. He makes a piece of history in Beijing by becoming one half of the first pair of brothers to represent Great Britain at hockey at an Olympic Games; younger brother Simon is also a member of the team. "Playing at the Olympics...
University of Bath-based sprinter Craig Pickering will contest the 100m sprint at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, it was announced today (Saturday). The University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science student had already been named in the sprint relay squad but has now been told he will also run in the 100m at his first Olympic Games. And the Marshall Milton Keynes athlete is joined in the Team GB squad by training partner Dale Garland....
Her Majesty the Queen presented Ivor Powell, the world's oldest working football coach, with his MBE at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday (Wednesday). Ivor was awarded the MBE in the 2008 New Year's Honours List and received it just a few days short of his 92nd birthday. He said: "I was honoured to receive the MBE from the Queen. It made me proud and gave me a great deal of pleasure. Professor Glynis Breakwell,...
Top-flight volleyball action comes to the University of Bath this weekend when the Sports Training Village hosts the finals of Volleyball England’s National Cup. Hundreds of spectators are expected at the Sports Training Village for the climax of the annual National Cup competitions, which will see eight finals played out over two days. Several players with strong Team Bath links will be in action during the weekend, which is the indoor six-a-side version of the...
