The GBR1 four-man bobsleigh crew of John Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon just missed out on the medals in the final event of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The quartet, the last British athletes to compete at the Games, ended their campaign in fifth, just half a second off the Russian Federation 1 crew that took gold and 0.11 seconds off the bronze medal position. It means they secured the best...
John Baines will step into the GBR 1 two-man bobsleigh seat vacated by the injured Craig Pickering at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Baines, who does some of his training at the University of Bath, will be Lamin Deen’s brakeman for the two-man bob. The duo raced together at the Americas Cup this season, achieving a number of top-10 results. Baines was already in the Team GB bobsleigh team for Sochi as a member...
Bath-based skeleton athlete Lizzy Yarnold can’t wait to show the world what she can do when she competes at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Yarnold arrived in Sochi as world number one after winning the 2013/4 World Cup series with an impressive series of performances that included four gold medals among seven podium finishes from eight competitions. The 25-year-old, who trains at the University of Bath, looks to follow in the runner tracks of...
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher has been named in the British team to compete at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. The visually-impaired Alpine skier will be competing at her second Paralympic Games after finishing fourth in the giant slalom in Vancouver four years ago, the best finish by a British visually-impaired skier since 1994. Gallagher, from Bangor in Northern Ireland, graduated from the University with a Mathematics degree in 2006. She said she...
University of Bath student Dom Parsons was today named in a four-strong GB skeleton team to compete at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Parsons is studying for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University and took up the sport of skeleton as an undergraduate at the University. “Sochi has been my goal for so long that I'm very relieved to have been selected, and excited about the opportunity to represent Team GB at...
Ten bobsleigh athletes who train at the University of Bath were today named in the British team to compete at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. British Bobsleigh has its headquarters at the University of Bath and many of Britain’s top bobsleigh athletes do some of their training at the Sports Training Village. Team GB will have two four-man bobsleigh crews in action in Sochi, a two-man crew and one two-woman crew. Craig Pickering, who...
British Skeleton, which has its headquarters at the University of Bath, has named the athletes that will compete on the World Cup and Intercontinental Cup circuits in the lead-up to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The announcement comes after two days of selection racing on the Altenberg track in Germany. Lizzy Yarnold won the women’s selections races with Ed Smith winning the men’s competition. University of Bath Coach Education and Sports Performance graduate Shelley...
Special Olympics GB Chief Executive Karen Wallin said athletes went home from the Bath 2013 Games ‘smiling and with amazing memories’. Karen praised the facilities at the University of Bath’s Claverton Down campus, which hosted athlete accommodation and most of the sports. She said she couldn’t have wished for a more successful Games. "In my wildest dreams I could not have wished for a more successful event,” she said. “The athletes, who all have intellectual...
University of Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham is celebrating a fifth successive SKUD title at the IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships. Rickham, who graduated from the University with a Natural Sciences degree in 2004, and sailing partner NIki Birrell, continued their domination of the SKUD class at the World Championships by adding the 2013 title to their haul at Kinsale in Ireland. The pair have sailed together since the start of 2008 and won their first...
University of Bath sporting alumni Helen Glover added a World Championship gold to the Olympic rowing title she won at London 2012 last year. Glover won gold in the women’s pair partnering Polly Swann at the World Championships on Lake Tangeum in Korea on Saturday. It was Glover’s first World Championship gold following a pair of silvers in 2010 and 2011 with University of Bath Sports Technology graduate Heather Stanning, with whom also struck gold...
