Adam Pengilly elected to IOC Athletes’ Commission

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...

25 February 2010

University of Bath-based Amy Williams wins stunning Olympic skeleton gold for Team GB at Vancouver 2010 Winter Games

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...

20 February 2010

Vicky Thornley rows to gold at Under-23 World Champs

University of Bath-based rower Victoria Thornley is celebrating gold at the Under-23 World Rowing Championships. Thornley, who trains at the University of Bath and Minerva Bath Rowing Club, struck gold with the British women’s eight at the competition in Racice, the Czech Republic at the weekend. It is the first time a British women’s eight have won World Championship gold at any level. The performance is all the more remarkable as 21-year-old Thornley has only...

29 July 2009

University of Bath to host British team preparation camps ahead of London 2012 Paralympic Games

The University of Bath has welcomed today's (Thursday) announcement that it has been chosen to host the British Paralympic team's preparation camps in the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. ParalympicsGB athletes, coaches and support staff will attend the preparation camps at the University of Bath's Claverton campus between now and London 2012, as well as in the immediate lead up to the Games. ParalympicsGB selected Bath to host its preparation camps in an...

16 July 2009

Skeleton athletes Amy Williams and Adam Pengilly win Team Bath Athlete of the Month awards for March 2009

Skeleton sliders Amy Williams and Adam Pengilly are the latest winners of the Team Bath Athlete of the Month awards, which are supported by the Fat Face store in Bath. Amy and Adam both produced outstanding performances to win silver medals for Great Britain at the 2009 Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, USA. Amy’s silver medal rounded off a terrific season for the University of Bath graduate, who also finished in the top-six in...

09 March 2009

Adam Pengilly wins British Skeleton’s second medal on 2009 World Championships

Adam Pengilly produced an outstanding performance to win Great Britain’s second silver medal of the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid. Pengilly’s silver today (Saturday) came just over 24 hours after team-mate Amy Williams struck silver in the women’s competition. Both athletes train at the University of Bath. It is the first time Britain’s skeleton sliders have won two medals at a World Championships and comes less than a year to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic...

28 February 2009

Amy Williams wins 2009 Skeleton World Championship silver at Lake Placid

Britain’s Amy Williams produced a stunning final run to win the silver medal at the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, the USA. The 26-year-old from Bath went into the fourth and last run today in fourth place – just 0.07 seconds off the bronze medal position. But despite battling against the effects of a virus, she produced easily the fastest final run. With the final round of the competition run in reverse order, that...

27 February 2009

Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke become Britain’s first women bobsleigh World Champions

Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke became the first British women to win a Bobsleigh World Championship title when they won gold in Lake Placid this afternoon (Saturday). The pair had been second at the halfway mark overnight after two of the four runs that make up the World Championships – four-hundredths of a second behind leaders Shauna Rohbock and Elana Meyers of the USA. But the Brits produced an outstanding third run to head the...

21 February 2009

University of Bath triathlete Julie Dibens defends World Championships title in Hawaii

University of Bath-based triathlete Julie Dibens successfully defended her XTERRA World Championships title in Hawaii yesterday (Sunday). The 33-year-old won the gruelling off-road race in Maui – a race that features a 1.5km rough water sea swim, a 32km mountain bike ride and a 12km trail run. Dibens dominated the race, leading from the start and crossing the finishing line in 3:03.57 – a minute ahead of Canada’s Danelle Kabush in second place. It means...

27 October 2008

Team Bath’s Ben Rushgrove wins 100m silver at Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games

Super University of Bath student Ben Rushgrove stormed to 100m silver in the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing earlier today, bringing Britain's athletics squad a little ray of light on a gloomy morning. Rushgrove won Britain's first track medal of the day when he powered to second in the T36 100m behind Ukraine's Roman Pavlyk. The 20-year-old Team Bath ahlete responded superbly after a sluggish start and with a late surge grabbed the silver in...

09 September 2008