Four University of Bath-based international athletes got to try their hand at driving diggers and dump trucks as they paid a special visit to the headquarters of Team Bath partners MJ Church. Rio 2016 wheelchair fencing silver-medallist Piers Gilliver and judoka Ben Fletcher were joined by England Women’s rugby player Sydney Gregson and skeleton athlete Jor’dan McIntosh on the informative and interactive tour of the Civil Engineering, Plant, Transport and Waste Management Contractors’ Marshfield base....
Mica McNeill and Mica Moore are the new Junior World Bobsleigh Champions after a stunning few days for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association. The talented young duo finished six-tenths of a second ahead of two home crews on the German track of Winterberg to become GB’s first Junior World Champions since Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson in 2011 - they went on to compete at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games....
Donna Creighton won the third gold of her career, there were medals for Kim Murray and Jerry Rice, and Mica McNeill equaled her best-ever World Cup result during another good weekend for athletes with the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Creighton (pictured) took top spot at the latest North American Cup event in Lake Placid, a week after winning silver in Intercontinental Cup competition in Calgary. Fellow skeleton athlete Rice won bronze...
Lizzy Yarnold narrowly missed out on a European Championships medal during a snowy World Cup weekend in Winterberg, Germany, for athletes from the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Reigning Olympic skeleton champion Yarnold was fourth in the European standings and sixth overall in the latest World Cup event, which was limited to just one run down the track instead of two due to intermittent heavy snow. Team-mate Laura Deas was eighth...
It was a weekend to remember for winter-sport athletes who train at the University of Bath as they made an impressive return to the international circuit. The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association enjoyed a medal-laden visit to Park City in Utah as rising skeleton star Madelaine Smith (pictured) won back-to-back gold medals in the first North American Cup event of 2017. Team-mate Donna Creighton was runner-up to Smith on both occasions, while the men’s races...
University of Bath-based slider Laura Deas started 2017 as she had finished 2016 – by securing a wider-podium place on the World Cup circuit. After finishing sixth in Lake Placid in December, Deas matched that result on Friday morning in Altenberg, Germany as the international skeleton season resumed after the Christmas break. Fellow Brit Lizzy Yarnold was ninth and slipped down to second in the overall World Cup standings after three races behind Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling,...
Outstanding success at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games plus the visit of sporting and actual royalty ensured that the University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style during 2016. When the University received Royal Charter status on October 25, 1966, there were no sporting facilities on the Claverton Down campus. Five decades later, it has developed into what Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley believes is “the most vibrant, exciting and dynamic sporting...
Silver medals for Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold and the two-man bobsleigh crew of Bruce Tasker and Toby Olubi ensured a memorable weekend of international racing for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Yarnold, in just her second race back after a season-long sabbatical, followed up her fourth-placed finish in Whistler a fortnight ago by finishing runner-up to Austria’s Janine Flock at the latest World Cup meeting in Lake Placid. Those...
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold was just one-hundredth of a second shy of a bronze medal on her return to international action as the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) contested the first World Cup of the season. Yarnold, in her first appearance since winning Skeleton World Championship gold in March 2015, finished two places ahead of team-mate Laura Deas in the women’s competition at Whistler, Canada. University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student Dom Parsons...
Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold returns to the international skeleton circuit for the first time in 21 months today (Friday) when the 2016-17 skeleton and bobsleigh World Cup season gets under way in Whistler, Canada. Yarnold, who trains with the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA), won World Championships gold on her last competitive outing in March 2015 before taking a season off to recharge her batteries. “I've come back feeling refreshed, recharged...
