University of Bath sporting alumnus, Shelley Rudman, pipped her team-mate and great rival Amy Williams, the Olympic champion, to European gold in Winterberg today during the sixth Skeleton World Cup there which doubles as the European Championships. The world cup win was Rudman’s first of the season after four previous runners-up slots and put her in pole position on the international rankings. The now Sheffield-based but former Wiltshire athlete, who was talent spotted into the...
University of Bath graduates Amy Williams and Sam Weale have been named winners of the British Olympic Association Athlete of the Year awards for their respective sports. Williams, a Sports Performance graduate, collected the bobsleigh/skeleton award after winning skeleton gold for Great Britain at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. She said: “I’m delighted to receive the BOA Olympic Athlete of the Year award. This caps a really special year for me, the highlight of...
Bath’s Olympic golden girl Amy Williams was today presented with her MBE by The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. The University of Bath Sports Performance graduate received the honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List following her outstanding performance in winning skeleton gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games in March. Amy said: “I was really proud and pleased today. It’s a lovely medal, it’s really pretty, and it’s going to go alongside my...
University of Bath-based swimmer Liz Johnson has won a bronze medal at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Holland. The 25-year-old swimmer came home third in the SB6 100m breaststroke final in Eindhoven last night (Monday). Gold went to America’s Mallory Weggemann in a world record time of 1:35.51, with Britain’s Charlotte Henshaw taking silver, just 0.14 seconds ahead of Johnson, who came home in 1:39.88. Mallory had earlier taken a massive 12 seconds off...
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games gold medallist Amy Williams said she is thrilled to be made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Amy struck gold in the skeleton at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. She became Britain’s first individual gold medallist at an Olympic Winter Games for 30 years and the first British woman individual gold medallist for 58 years. The 27-year-old University of Bath graduate, who trains at the University, said:...
Amy Williams, Britain’s Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games skeleton gold medalist said she felt honoured and privileged to be the first woman to become an Honorary Freeman of the City of Bath. The honour was bestowed upon Amy at a ceremony at Bath Abbey today (Saturday) and was followed by civic reception at Bath Guildhall. The 27-year-old University of Bath graduate becomes only the fifth person since the Second World War to be made an...
Golden girl Amy Williams and her fellow University of Bath-based British Olympic Winter Games athletes have returned to Bath today. Amy became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years when she topped the podium in the skeleton at the Vancouver 2010 Games. The 27-year-old produced a stunning performance to become Britain’s first Olympic skeleton gold medallist, winning the title by an emphatic 0.56 seconds on her Olympic debut. Her first...
University of Bath-based Olympic champion Amy Williams will carry the Union Flag for Team GB at Sunday’s Vancouver 2010 closing ceremony. The British Olympic Association today announced its decision to choose Amy to carry the flag, following her gold medal winning performance in the skeleton on 19th February. Amy became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years and the first woman individual gold medallist for 58 years. She said: “What...
University of Bath based skeleton athlete Adam Pengilly has been elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes. Pengilly received the most votes (615) from the total number of ballots accepted (1,902), which represents 75.3 per cent of the Olympic athletes at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Pengilly will serve for a term of eight years and become an IOC member during that period. The role of the IOC Athletes' Commission is to ensure...
University of Bath-based skeleton slider Amy Williams today (Friday) became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years and the first woman individual gold medallist for 58 years. The 27-year-old won the women’s skeleton title at Vancouver 2010 Olympic by an emphatic 0.56 seconds. Williams said she was delighted with her gold medal. "It's absolutely brilliant. It's out of this world. Never in a million years did I think I'd come...
