The British bobsleigh crew of Jackie Davies and Paula Walker finished 10th in their first World Cup outing of the season. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath, secured a top-10 finish overall with the ninth fastest times in each of the two runs. The event, which took place at Cesana Pariol in Italy, was round six of the eight-round 2006/7 season. Gold went to Germany’s reigning World Champion...
Britain’s bobsleigh women finished 14th and 16th in the World Championships in Switzerland. Jackie Davies and her brakeman Paula Walker came home 14th in the GB2 crew at St Moritz with a pair of 13th place finishes and two 17th place finishes. The GB1 crews of Nicola Minichiello and Lauren Therin finished 16th overall. Their best performance was an eighth fastest time in the third of four runs. The Brtitish crews do some of their...
The British bobsleigh pair of Nicola Minichiello and Lauren Therin produced their best World Cup result of the season to finish ninth in Austria. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, followed up their recent 10th place at Cortina in Italy with ninth on the Igls track in Austria. They produced a consistent pair of runs in Igls, finishing eighth and ninth. The British pair are...
In the second stage of trials for the Great Britain Rowing Squads, University of Bath athletes once again represented their club with a great deal of success. In the Coxless Pairs, Dave Lyons (Coach Ed, 2007) teamed up with a rower from Imperial College to finish 10th overall and recorded the fastest Under-23 time of the weekend. With a very strong performance they were less than half a second behind the Cambridge Pair of Olympic...
British bobsleigh aces Nicola Minichiello and Jackie Davies returned to the UK today (Tuesday) proudly clutching the silver medals they won at the Bobsleigh World Championships in Canada. The Team Bath pair, who both train at the University of Bath, became the first British women's bobsleigh crew to win a World Championships medal and the first British crew to win a Bobsleigh World Championship medal since 1965. They missed out on gold in Calgary by...
The British women's bobsleigh pairing of Nicola Minichiello and Jackie Davies finished out of the medals in a creditable ninth place at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games. The pair, who train on the same push-start track at the University of Bath as the already successful British bob-skeleton team at the Games, went into the second final day of the event in sixth place overall. But they dropped down to eighth after this afternoon's third...
