The British beach volleyball pairing of Lucy Boulton and Denise Johns head off to Australia shortly to renew their campaign to win a place at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The pair must perform well at a series of International Beach Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Tour events this year to climb up the rankings and increase their chances of securing an Olympic berth. They were today (Tuesday) putting in some final training sessions at their...
Britain’s beach volleyball players are putting in the hard yards this winter on the new ‘beach’ at the University of Bath. Work is now complete on the new outdoor beach volleyball facility at the Sports Training Village. It will be a key part in the development of Britain’s beach volleyball players up to and beyond the London 2012 Olympic Games, after the British Volleyball Federation chose Bath as home for the GB beach volleyball team....
University of Bath rowers raised hundreds of pounds for charity and set an unofficial record in Saturday’s marathon fund-raising effort. Ten rowers completed a 100km relay row in just four hours 59 minutes and 14 seconds. It is believed their effort is a British Universities ‘small mixed team’ record – confirmation of this is expected soon. A further group of 24 rowers covered the same distance in a little over six hours. Their efforts have...
Team Bath Olympian Julie Dibens was crowned Xterra off-road triathlon World Champion in Hawaii yesterday (Sunday). The 32-year-old won the gruelling women’s World Championship race in 3 hours one minute and 24 second. She beat Canada’s three times Xterra world champion Melanie McQuaid into second place by more than eight minutes. “I think I pretty much had the perfect race, it was awesome!” said a delighted Dibens. “I had a good swim, and knew I...
Team Bath’s Aaron Harris finished a creditable 18th place finish in today’s (Friday) junior men’s race at the World Triathlon Championships in Hamburg. The 19-year-old University of Bath Sports Performance student completed the race in 55 minutes and 36 seconds, one minute and 53 seconds behind race winner Aurelien Raphael from France. It was Aaron’s World Championships debut and came just a year after he had to take three months out of the sport with...
Several potential rowing Olympians have emerged from more than 200 people tested this weekend at the University of Bath by the Amateur Rowing Association's (ARA's) World Class Start Scheme, sponsored by Siemens, according to the manager of the sport's talent development programme, Peter Shakespear.The scheme aims to test tall people aged 16–25 who may have the qualities needed to succeed in the sport. Bath's participants – just like the 500 tested already in Nottingham and...
University of Bath graduate Heather Stanning was one half of the crew that won Britain’s only gold medal at rowing’s World Under-23 Championships at the weekend. Heather (pictured), who has recently graduated from the University with a degree in Sports Technology, struck gold in the women’s pair partnering Liv Whitlam. The pair won yesterday’s (Sunday) final by three lengths to take gold ahead of the Romanian crew at the championships at Strathclyde Park in 7:15.90....
Three Team Bath triathletes have been selected to represent Great Britain at next weekend’s European Championships in Copenhagen. Julie Dibens is a member of the five-strong GB women’s senior team for the championships, while teenagers Aaron Harris and Mark Threlfall are both members of the junior boys team. All three go into the competition of the back of some strong results. Mark Threlfall won an impressive silver medal in junior men’s race at the European...
University of Bath rower Heather Stanning has been selected to represent Great Britain at the World Cup event in Amsterdam later this month. The 22-year-old University of Bath Sports Technology student is among the under-23 squad rowers included in the GB squad for the World Cup. The under-23s are under consideration for inclusion in the GB team for next month’s World Under-23 Championships in Scotland and have been included in the World Cup squad to...
Julie Dibens captured her first elite British National Championships title at the Corus British Elite triathlon races in Tredegar, Wales on Saturday. Julie led the field from the 1500m lake swim, settled into the leading group during the 40k cycling leg, before establishing a led of more than three minutes going into the 10k run. She finished in one hour 59 minutes 12 seconds, beating fellow Brit Andrew Whitcombe into second place by almost a...
