A pair of Team Bath Paralympians have been selected to represent Great Britain at the IPC Swimming European Championships in Berlin this summer. Kate Grey and Liz Johnson are both named in the GB team for the championships, which take place from 3-10 July. The championships are an opportunity for Britain’s swimmers to put down a marker ahead of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Liz (pictured) won gold in the SB6 100m breaststroke at the...
University of Bath-based swimmers produced some impressive results at the British Championships, returning to Bath with a string of medals and titles. Sports Performance student Michael Jamieson, who trains with the British Gas Intensive Training Centre Bath, completed a 100m and 200m breaststroke double, setting a qualification time for July’s World Championships in Shanghai in the process. Stacey Tadd, who trains with the University performance group, also collected a brace of titles but just missed...
University of Bath-based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Stacey Tadd both collected their second titles of the British Championships in Manchester last night (Thursday). Sports Performance student Jamieson, who trains at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre (ITC) Bath, added 200m breaststroke gold to the 100m breaststroke title he collected earlier in the week. And Jamieson, who won silver over 200m at last year’s Commonwealth Games, set a personal best to dip under the qualification time...
University of Bath-based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Stacey Tadd have both collected titles on the opening days of the British Championships. Sports Performance student Jamieson, the Commonwealth Games 200m breaststroke silver medallist, won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the British Championships in Manchester. He swam 1:01.31 to beat fellow British Gas Intensive Training Centre Bath swimmer Kris Gilchrist into second place. University of Bath graduate Richard Webb came third with Chemical Engineering student Andrew...
University of Bath-based swimmers will aim to qualify of some of the biggest swimming events on this year’s swimming calendar when they compete at the British Gas Championships in Manchester. The championships run from Saturday (5 March) through to Saturday 12 March and is the first qualifying competition for the World Championships, which take place in Shanghai in July. It is also a qualifying competition for the International Paralympic Committee European Championships in Berlin in...
Commonwealth Games silver medallist Michael Jamieson led the way as the University of Bath finished as runners-up at the British Universities and Colleges Sport long course championships. The University of Bath Sports Performance student, who trains at British Swimming’s British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC), completed an impressive 100m and 200m breaststroke double at Sheffield at weekend. Jamieson’s (pictured right) victory in the 200m breaststroke – the event in which he won silver for...
ommonwealth Games swimmers Michael Jamieson, Andrew Willis and Jess Dickons will head the University of Bath challenge at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) long course championships this weekend. The trio are members of the University of Bath team contesting the championships which take place in Sheffield from Friday (11 February) to Sunday (13 February). Student swimmers from the British Gas Intensive Training Centre and the University of Bath’s performance group will join members...
University of Bath-based swimmer Michael Jamieson has been named in Scotland’s swimming team for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 22-year-old breaststroker is coached by David McNulty at the British Gas ITC Bath. He is a member of the 21-strong swimming squad named by Commonwealth Games Scotland for the Games. Jamieson will contest the 100m and 200m breaststroke in Delhi. Three other University of Bath-based swimmers have already been selected to compete for England at...
University of Bath-based athletes collected three silver medals at the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. Sprinter Katrina Hart, a University of Bath Sports Performance student, won a brace of silvers in the T36/T37 100m and 200m. She was beaten on both occasions by Germany’s Maria Seifert, the bronze medallist over both distances in the T37 classification at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. There was also a silver in the pool for swimmer Liz Johnson...
Paralympic champion Liz Johnson says moving to train at the University of Bath took her out of her comfort zone - making her a better swimmer. Liz, who is coached at the University of Bath by Mark Skimming, says being surrounded by top athletes from a wide range of sports makes TeamBath an inspirational training environment. In an interview on the Inside World Parasport website, Liz says: "I train at the University of Bath, as...
