University of Bath students and staff took the opportunity to pay tribute to athletes linked to the University who won medals at London 2012. Hundreds of students and staff attended the London 2012 medallists celebration event held at the Founders Hall. Seven athletes with University links who won medals at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games attended the celebration. They included Sports Technology graduate Heather Stanning, who learned to row at the University and...
University of Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham has won sailing bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Rickham, who graduated with a Natural Sciences degree in 2004, won the medal for ParalympicsGB today partnering Niki Birrell in the SKUD 18 class. It was a good sailing campaign for Great Britain, with Helena Lucas also winning gold in the one-person 2.4mR class. They became the first British sailors to win Paralympic Games medals since the sport joined...
University of Bath students and graduates made an impressive start to the London 2012 Olympic Games in the first full morning of competition today (Saturday). Heather Stanning and Helen Glover (picutred) made an emphatic start in the very first heat of rowing at Eton Dorney, setting an Olympic record in the women's pair to progress direct to Wednesday’s final. Heather, a University of Bath Sports Technology graduate, and Helen, who also trained in Bath, looked...
University of Bath graduate Natalia Sheppard has been selected to represent Great Britain in fencing at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Natalia graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics and Computing in 2006. Born in Poland, she is now 28 and makes her Olympic debut at the London 2012 Games. Natalia said: "I am so thrilled and proud at my selection for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic...
Badminton player Alex Huttunen has been named 2012 University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year Award at a ceremony at Bath’s Assembly Rooms. Alex, who is in his fourth year of a Mathematics degree at the University of Bath, received the award following a vote of members of the Students’ Union Sport Association. He featured on a shortlist of five athletes featuring swimmers Jess Dickson, Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis, as well as hurdler...
Triathlete and cross-country runner Lucy Ferguson was named the University of Bath’s Sports Personality of the Year for 2011 at the annual Blues Awards, one of the highlights of the student sporting year. Lucy, who is in the fourth year of a Sports Engineering degree at the University of Bath, topped a poll of Students’ Union Sports Association members to collect the award. Paralympic athlete Katrina Hart, swimmer Michael Jamieson, rugby player Izzy Noel-Smith and...
