City of Bath celebrates its London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heroes during open top bus parade

Bath residents turned out in force to pay tribute to the city’s London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heroes as they toured the city in a celebratory open top bus parade this morning (Wednesday). Twenty athletes took part in the parade – 13 Olympians across seven different sports and seven Paralympians who competed in  four sports at London 2012. Bath city centre came to a standstill as residents turned out to cheer on the athletes, who...

12 September 2012

London 2012: Bath athletes Ben Rushgrove and Paul Blake secure brilliant bronze brace at Paralympic Games

It was another sparkling night in the Olympic Stadium for University of Bath based athletes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, with Ben Rushgrove and Paul Blake both winning bronzes. Rushgrove, a University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, ran a fantastic bend to take bronze in the T36 200m final, in a personal best of 24.83 seconds.  He adds today's bronze to the silver he won over 100m four years ago in Beijing. “Now I've...

06 September 2012

London 2012: Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham wins sailing bronze at Paralympic Games

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...

06 September 2012

London 2012: University of Bath swimmer Liz Johnson wins breaststroke bronze at Paralympic Games

Britain’s Liz Johnson won bronze in the SB6 100m breaststroke final at the London 2012 Paralympic Games tonight (Wednesday). The University of Bath based swimmer clocked a time of 1:40.90 to come home in third place behind Ukraine’s Viktoriia Savtsova, who set a Paralympic record, with Britain’s Charlotte Henshaw taking silver. Johnson’s bronze means she now has a full set of medals, after winning silver in Athens eight years ago and gold in Beijing in...

05 September 2012

London 2012: Silver for Paul Blake and bronze for Katrina Hart as University of Bath athletes excel at Paralympic Games

University of Bath based athlete Paul Blake tonight (Tuesday) sprinted to silver in the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The 22 year old, who is coached at the Sports Training Village by Rob Ellchuk, produced a classic 400m run in front of a capacity 80,000 crowd in the stadium Running in lane five in the T36 400m final against a strong and experienced field, he refused to let Russia’s Evgenii Shvetcov in...

04 September 2012

London 2012 Olympic Games round-up as University of Bath athletes enjoy home success

Medals, records and some history in the making – that was the University of Bath’s story in the sporting arenas at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where athletes with Bath links had a hand in Great Britain’s first and last medals of the Games. Past and present students and athletes from the University were in impressive form at the Olympics. Some 25 athletes who train at the University were selected to compete across seven sports...

03 September 2012

London 2012: Sprinter Sophie Kamlish fifth on Paralympic Games debut

Sixteen-year-old Sophie Kamlish produced a terrific performance to finish fifth in her first Paralympic Games final at the London 2012 Games tonight (Sunday). Kamlish, who is coached at the University of Bath by Rob Ellchuk, is representing ParalympicsGB at her first Games. She clocked a time of 13.98 seconds in the T44 100m final in front of 80000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium. Two of her training partners, Ben Rushgrove and Katrina Hart, were also...

02 September 2012

ParalympicsGB begin final preparation camps for London 2012 at the University of Bath

Over 40 athletes from three sports have settled into the Preparation Camp at the University of Bath in the past 48 hours with more sports soon to join them. Footballers, archers and shooters rubbed shoulders in Bath yesterday. Performance Director Penny Briscoe, paid tribute to the lottery funding which has made such a state-of-the-art camp possible. "We have raised the bar in our preparations in this four year cycle", she said. "But so, too, have...

21 August 2012

London 2012: University of Bath student Samantha Murray wins Team GB’s last medal of home Olympics

Samantha Murray is celebrating winning Team GB’s last medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games when she took modern pentathlon silver today (Sunday). The 22-year-old produced a terrific all round performance to capture the fifth Olympic medal won by Britain’s pentathletes from the four Games since the sport for women made its Olympic debut in Sydney. It was Team GB’s 65th medal of the London 2012 Olympics. Her success today followed the gold won by...

12 August 2012

London 2012: Pentathletes Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale cheered on by “phenomenal crowds” at home Olympics

University of Bath based modern pentathletes Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale finished 10th and 13th respectively at the London 2012 Olympic modern pentathlon. The GB pair train at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the University of Bath and were both competing their second Olympic Games. They both put themselves into strong positions by producing solid positions throughout the day, with Woodbridge going into the run/shoot in seventh and Weale ninth. But they both...

11 August 2012