University of Bath student Jess Dickons has won Britain’s first medal of the World University Games in China when she struck gold in the 200m butterfly final. The 21-year-old Sports Performance student came home in 2:08.91, just edging out Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi by three-hundredths of a second at the Games in Shenzhen. “I knew it was going to be a really quick race and I knew there were some fast swimmers in there,” said Dickons,...
University of Bath-based Siobhan-Marie O’Connor performed exceptionally well at the European Junior Championships to bring home three gold medals and a silver, making her the most successful female swimmer at the event. At the tournament in Belgrade, she won the girls’ 400m medley in a time of 4:46.61, followed by a win in the girls’ 4x100m medley and the girls’ 200m medley. O’Connor, who trains at the University of Bath with the British Gas Intensive...
Team Bath swimmer Liz Johnson struck gold at the International Paralympic Committee European Championships in Germany today (Monday). Johnson won the SB6 100m breaststroke title at the championships in Berlin, the same discipine in which she took gold at the Beijing 2008 Paralymic Games. Johnson, who is coached by Mark Skimming at the University of Bath, won in a time of 1:38.89 – just over a second clear of British team-mate Charlotte Henshaw.
Several University of Bath-based athletes will be representing ParalympicsGB at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. Sprinter Ben Rushgrove and his coach Rob Ellchuk, swimmer Kate Grey and judo player Darren Harris will be going into action less than two weeks after the University of Bath based Craig Pickering, Dale Garland, Mark Foster and the entire Team GB modern pentathlon contingent returned from competing in the able-bodied Games. Ben Rushgrove is the current T36 100m European...
A total of nine athletes and four coaches representing three countries competing at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games train at the University of Bath's state of the art facilities. Beijing 2008 was the fifth Olympic experience for University of Bath Swimming Club's Mark Foster, who was Team GB flag bearer along with Maltese judoka Marcon Bezzina, who had the honour of leading the Maltese contingent out at the Opening Ceremony. The entire Team GB modern...
