Three Team Bath triathletes have been selected to represent Great Britain at the European Duathlon Championships in Edinburgh later this month. Aaron Harris and Mark Threlfall will both compete in the Junior Men’s event at the Championships, while Tom Room, a final year Natural Sciences student at the University of Bath, is selected in the GB Men’s under-23 team. The race, on Saturday 16th June, will feature a 10k run, 40k bike ride and then...
Following their performances at the Senior Trials in Belgium in April and after further testing at the GB Rowing facility at Caversham, University of Bath rowers Dave Lyons and Heather Stanning were selected to race at Essen Regatta in Germany with the rest of GB’s potential Under 23 Squad. Heather raced with her pairs partner from the World Class Start and Potential Centre at Agecroft Rowing Club in Manchester, Olivia Whitlam. Heather and Olivia have...
Teenage sprinter Ben Rushgrove earned a Nationwide Achievement Award for his stunning performances at the Visa Paralympic World Cup. The 19-year-old University of Bath student was named winner of the Male Athletics award after sprinting to two gold medals and a world record at the Visa Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. The Sports Performance student, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, smashed the T36 200m world record and later added...
Rower David Lyons has been named University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year for 2007. The 22-year-old Coach Education and Sports Development student topped a poll of his fellow students from a shortlist of four candidates. Lyons said he was delighted to feature on the shortlist, alongside athletes such as track sprinter Craig Pickering, silver medallist at this year’s European Indoor Athletics Championships. “I was impressed to be on the shortlist,” he said. “It...
Julie Dibens proved she remains one of the top women triathletes in the world with victory in the St Croix 70.3 women’s race in the US Virgin Islands.The race featured a 2km sea swim, followed by a 90km bike ride and a 21km run. Julie crossed the line first in four hours 29 minutes and 11 seconds – beating the 2006 world short & long distance duathlon champion Catriona Morrison into second and 2006 world...
Team Bath Olympian Julie Dibens continued her terrific off-road triathlon campaign by winning the Tagaman Xterra event. And that result, plus her second place in Saipan a week ago, meant Julie clinched the overall Pacific Islands Club Double award. It also means she has two wins and a second place to her name from her last three Xterra triathlons. Saturday’s Tagaman Xterra triathlon started just before dawn with a sea swim. Once against Julie showed...
Dave Lyons and Heather Stanning both showed strong performances in their recent erg tests and both finished at the top end of the men’s and women’s Under 23 Squads. Dave’s time of 5:56.3 is a one second PB and shows his talent after a couple of weeks reduced training following an injury.Heather had a blip in her last 2k test with a 7:03 following her sub-7 minutes in November but showed that her training is...
Illness robbed University of Bath student Dave Lyons of his opportunity to make his senior rowing debut in Great Britain colours. The Coach Education and Sports Development student was due to compete in one of two GB fours at last weekend’s FISA Team Cup in Seville, Spain, but a member of his crew was ill, so the boat couldn’t race. Lyons was selected to row in a GB eight in Germany in October last year,...
The British women’s bobsleigh crew of Jackie Davies and Paula Walker finished 13th in the penultimate round of the World Cup at the weekend. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath, followed up their 10th place in Italy a week ago with 13th in Winterberg, Germany at the weekend. Gold went to Germany’s Sandra Kiriasis, who drove to her fifth straight women’s bobsleigh victory. The final round of the...
University of Bath student Dave Lyons will row for Great Britain at this weekend’s FISA Team Cup in Spain. The Coach Education and Sports Development student will row in one of two Great Britain fours at the early season ‘friendly’ sprints regatta in Seville. University of Bath graduate Marcus Bateman, now a member of the Leander Club, also makes the trip to Seville in the GB eight – a crew that also features former Olympian...
