The University of Bath Sports Training Village hosted the latest ParalympicsGB Potentials Camp in August 2014 with around 60 aspiring Paralympians taking an inportant step on the path that they hope will take them to the Rio Games in 2016. You can find out more by watching the movie on Team Bath TV at
Kate French and Joe Evans rounded off Britain’s Modern Pentathlon World Championship campaign on a high note by winning mixed relay silver today (Sunday). The young pair fought well across the day before being beaten to gold by Laura Asadauskaite, Lithuania's London 2012 Olympic champion, and Justinas Kinderis, the 2013 individual world champion. French said: “It's brilliant we just came to get as many medals as possible and couldn't do it without the support of...
University of Bath graduate Samantha Murray is the new modern pentathlon world champion after striking gold in Warsaw today. And there was a double celebration as she joined forces with Freyja Prentice and Kate French to win team silver. The trio are all University of Bath graduates and train at the Pentathlon GB National Training Centre at the University. “It doesn’t feel real,” said French and Politics student Murray. “I’ve worked so hard for this...
Great Britain’s modern pentathletes, who train at the University of Bath, are competing at the World Championships in Poland this week. Pentathlon GB has its National Training Centre at the University and the 10-strong team for the championships features a number of current students and graduates. In the men’s competitions Joe Choong (Mathematics), Sam Curry (Politics and International Relations) and Tom Toolis (Sport and Exercise Science) are current students. Joe Evans and Jamie Cooke also...
The players from Barnsley Football Club stopped off at the University of Bath for a training session ahead of tomorrow’s (Saturday) Sky Bet League 1 game at Yeovil Town. Barnsley is managed by former Bristol City and Swindon Town manager Danny Wilson, who praised the facilities at the Sports Training Village. “We came here because of the facilities and reputation that the University Bath has,” he said. “I’d been here with Bristol City and Swindon...
We are delighted to announce the University of Bath has been chosen as a Team Base for the Australia national team at Rugby World Cup 2015. Our Sports Training Village is one of 41 team bases selected to host the 20 participating teams during the tournament which takes places in England and Cardiff between September 18 and October 31 next year. It will play host to the Australia team in the lead up to and...
Aspiring Paralympians took another important step on their quest to represent their country at Rio 2016 this weekend as 60 Paralympic hopefuls and support staff attended the ParalympicsGB Potentials Camp at the University of Bath. The first camp of the Rio cycle, hosted at the University in January 2014, set a strong precedent for the athletes in attendance this weekend. Of 45 graduates from the January camp, 60 per cent have so far gone on...
Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy player Eden Richardson is the new national under-16 champion after winning the title in Nottingham today (Friday). Richardson beat Emily Appleton 6-0 6-3 in the final of the Nike Under-16s Junior National Tennis Championships to claim her first national title. And the 15-year-old Ralph Allen School pupil came close to completing an impressive double – she reached the final of the under-18s too but went down 6-1 6-2 to top...
London 2012 Paralympic Games double medallist Paul Blake added another pair of medals to his impressive haul by bagging a brace at the IPC European Championships in Swansea. Blake, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk, collected bronze in the T36 100m and followed that up with silver in the T36 400m in 55.35 seconds, where he was beaten into second place by Russia’s world record holder Evgenii Shvetcov. Blake said: "I’m really happy, especially considering...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Child is celebrating winning gold and bronze medals at the European Championships in Switzerland. Child, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles Coach, won gold in the 400m hurdles in Zurich on Saturday (16 August). She followed that up by helping the British women’s 4x400m relay team to bronze yesterday (Sunday) on the final day of the championships. That race saw produced a thrilling finish with the...
