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

University of Bath based athletes to represent ParalympicsGB in Beijing

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...

06 September 2008

University of Bath-based Heather Fell wins modern pentathlon silver at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Team GB's Heather Fell made sure of continuing the nation's outstanding Olympic track record in modern pentathlon by winning silver today. The medal; coming on the back of Steph Cook and Kate Allenby's gold and bronze in Sydney and George Harland's bronze in Athens; is a tribute to the PentathlonGB programme which is run from the University of Bath Sports Training Village's specialist sports facilities by Performance Director Jan Bartu and his team of coaches....

22 August 2008

Nine athletes and four coaches from University of Bath representing three countries at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

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...

14 August 2008

Bath-based Mark Foster and Marcon Bezzina lead out nations at spectacular Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

The University of Bath based duo of swimmer Mark Foster and Judo player Marcon Bezzina stepped out in front of 91,000 screaming spectators to lead their contingents into the impressive Bird's Nest Stadium at yesterday's Opening Ceremony. The 38 year old Foster, competes at his fifth Olympic Games flew the flag for Team GB, while Bezzina, who represents Malta for her second consecutive Games had the honour of leading out the Maltese team. "Walking around...

09 August 2008

University of Bath graduate Richard Mantell looks forward to debut Olympic Games at Beijing 2008

University of Bath graduate and hockey player Richard Mantell is looking forward to competing at his first Olympic Games. The 26-year-old is a member of Team GB's 16-strong squad for the Beijing 2008 Games. He makes a piece of history in Beijing by becoming one half of the first pair of brothers to represent Great Britain at hockey at an Olympic Games; younger brother Simon is also a member of the team. "Playing at the...

31 July 2008

Team Bath coaching legend Ivor Powell honoured to receive MBE

Her Majesty the Queen presented Ivor Powell, the world's oldest working football coach, with his MBE at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday (Wednesday). Ivor was awarded the MBE in the 2008 New Year's Honours List and received it just a few days short of his 92nd birthday. He said: "I was honoured to receive the MBE from the Queen. It made me proud and gave me a great deal of pleasure. Professor Glynis Breakwell,...

26 June 2008

Olympian Julie Dibens is off-road Triathlon World Champion

Team Bath Olympian Julie Dibens was crowned Xterra off-road triathlon World Champion in Hawaii yesterday (Sunday). The 32-year-old won the gruelling women’s World Championship race in 3 hours one minute and 24 second. She beat Canada’s three times Xterra world champion Melanie McQuaid into second place by more than eight minutes. “I think I pretty much had the perfect race, it was awesome!” said a delighted Dibens. “I had a good swim, and knew I...

29 October 2007