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 slider Lizzy Yarnold continued her magnificent form with the fastest two training run times in the penultimate training session on the Sochi 2014 track this morning (Tuesday). GB team-mate Shelley Rudman, a University of Bath graduate, ranked 13th and 14th today in training at the Sanki Sliding Centre. Yarnold, who won the overall World Cup series in 2013/4 with four golds from seven podium finishes in eight races, clocked the first and fourth...
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 Craig Pickering said he was ‘devastated’ to miss out on competing at the Sochi Olympic Winter Games after suffering a slipped disc. Pickering sustained the injury to his back on Sunday (2 February) training at GB Bobsleigh’s Olympic preparation camp in Konigssee, Germany. It means that at least for the time being, he misses the opportunity to become one of the few athletes to have represented Great Britain at both a...
University of Bath graduate Craig Pickering is set to join a select group of athletes who have competed at Summer and Winter Olympic Games after swapping the athletics track for the bobsleigh track. Pickering made his Olympic debut in the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games as a member of Britain’s 4x100m relay team. Six years on the University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science graduate is poised to return...
Wine expert Peter Richards swapped wine tips for the unfamiliar world of the skeleton and bobsleigh push-start track at the University of Bath to help give this weekend’s Saturday Kitchen an Olympic Winter Games theme. Peter, Master of Wine on the BBC One hit show Saturday Kitchen, had several runs on the skeleton sled under the guidance of Team Bath track controller Nathan Bryer. And you can see the results on this Saturday’s (8 February)...
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. You can find our full details of his pioneering research and his quest for Sochi success. “Sochi has been my goal for so long that I'm...
Ten bobsleigh athletes who train at the University of Bath were today (Wednesday) 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,...
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has this weekend hosted the first of a series of multi-sport preparation camps aimed to support developing athletes in their preparations for Rio and beyond. The camp, which took place at the University of Bath on January 3-5, brought together almost 100 aspiring Paralympians from 11 different sports and included Para-Canoe and Para-Triathlon, which are both new sports on the programme for Rio 2016. The camp is the first of...
