When Team GB’s skeleton athletes take to the track this week at PyeongChang 2018, they will be looking to continue a proud tradition of Winter Olympic Games medals. Since the UK’s only outdoor push-start track for bobsleigh and skeleton training was officially opened at the University of Bath in 2002, athletes using the facility have gone on to claim podium places at each of the four Games. Alex Coomber won women’s skeleton bronze at Salt...
Her training group includes Paralympic, World and Commonwealth champions, while her uncle competed at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Now University of Bath-based skeleton athlete Jackie Narracott is ready to make her own mark on the global multi-sport stage when she takes to the ice for her native Australia at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Narracott, from Brisbane, has been a regular competitor on the ISBF World Cup circuit during this Olympiad...
It has been an encouraging start to official practice for University of Bath-based skeleton athletes at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Laura Deas recorded the second-fastest time on the first run, then went quickest on the next with just nine-hundredths of a second separating her two times. Defending champion Lizzy Yarnold was third and fourth fastest on her two outings, while Jackie Narracott – representing Australia – was tenth and 16th respectively. University of...
The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games officially begin in South Korea this morning – and there will be plenty of University of Bath interest over the next 16 days. Sixteen athletes who train at the University’s £30million Sports Training Village will be in action, including 14 from the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Among them are reigning Olympic women’s skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold and bobsleigh brakeman Joel Fearon, who is in line to receive...
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher, who made history at Sochi 2014, has today secured her place in the ParalympicsGB team for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games. Gallagher became the first British athlete to win a gold medal on snow in either Olympic or Paralympic competition when she topped the podium in the women’s super-G at Sochi 2014 with guide Charlotte Evans. The Mathematics graduate, who this time will be guided by Gary Smith,...
Reigning women’s skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold will lead Team GB into tomorrow’s PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony after being selected as flag bearer. The Sochi 2014 gold-medallist, who trains with the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) at the University of Bath, is aiming to become the first British Winter Olympian to defend her title. Yarnold, who carried the flag at the closing ceremony in 2014, said: “My first reaction when I was...
Aerial skier Lloyd Wallace and Australian skeleton athlete Jackie Narracott are the latest University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Wallace’s qualification for the Team GB squad – the first male aerial skier to be selected by Britain in 20 years – is all the more remarkable as it comes just six months after he suffered a serious head injury while training in Switzerland. He was placed...
Ten members of the bobsleigh squad that train at the University of Bath have been selected by Team GB for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Brad Hall will pilot both a two-man and four-man sled, with Lamin Deen also driving in the latter competition, while World Junior Champions Mica McNeill and Mica Moore (pictured) will contest the women’s event. Sochi 2014 veterans Joel Fearon, Andrew Matthews and Ben Simons have been selected as brakemen...
Four skeleton athletes who train at the University of Bath, including defending champion Lizzy Yarnold and student Dom Parsons, have today been selected by Team GB for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Laura Deas and Jerry Rice will make their Olympic debuts at the Games, which are being staged in South Korea from February 9-25 – the skeleton medals will be decided on February 16 and 17. The quartet compete for the British Bobsleigh...
British Bobsleigh athlete Bruce Tasker will miss the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games after suffering a minor stroke last week. He is expected to make a full recovery and has already targeted a return to the track later in the year but has been advised on medical grounds not to compete in what would have been his second Olympics, with the Games now less than a month away. “I’m gutted not to be able to...
