Lloyd prepares to compete in iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium

University of Bath Sports Performance student Lloyd Wallace will compete in the iconic Bird's Nest Stadium this weekend as the Beijing 2008 Olympic stadium hosts freestyle aerial skiing for the first time. The 18-year-old is looking forward to competing in his first World Cup of the 2014 season. The competition will use a 200-metre high hill made of scaffolding and covered with snow brought in by lorry from nearby hills. “It should be unbelievable” said...

18 December 2013

Impressive medal haul by Team Bath judo players

Team Bath judo players won three gold medals and an array of silvers and bronzes at the British Championships at the weekend. Gemma Howell, Jan Gosiewski and Ben Fletcher each collected golds at the senior championships in Sheffield. London 2012 Olympian Howell, who is studying for a Sport and Exercise Science degree at the University of Bath and receives a Trendell Scholarship, won the women’s under-63kg class title. Gosiewski, who is studying for a PhD...

18 December 2013

Bath swimmers win seven out of eight GB medals

University of Bath-based swimmers rounded off the European Short Course Championships in impressive style as they won seven of the eight medals collected by the British team. Michael Jamieson, Jemma Lowe, Chris Walker-Hebborn and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, who all train at British Swimming’s British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre, each collected medals over the weekend. They added to the trio of medals already won during the short course championships at Herning in Denmark by O’Connor, Lowe...

16 December 2013

Bobsleigh men claim historic medal

The GBR 1 four-man bobsleigh crew, piloted by John Jackson, are celebrating winning Britain’s first four-man World Cup medal for 16 years. The crew of Jackson, Stu Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon took silver at the Lake Placid World Cup in the USA finishing just 0.07 seconds off the USA team, piloted by Vancouver 2010 Olympic champion Steve Holcomb. Their remarkable performance was GB’s first World Cup podium finish in the four-man event since...

15 December 2013

Another gold for Yarnold

Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold continued her fantastic start to the skeleton season with a gold medal in race four of the World Cup at Lake Placid in the USA. It means the 25-year-old has now secured podium places in all four of her World Cups to date following her gold at Calgary in Canada, silver at Park City in the USA, and a bronze at the first of two back-to-back Lake Placid races. She said: “Of...

15 December 2013

Jan wins bronze in Monaco

University of Bath student and judo player Jan Gosiewski produced another strong performance to take bronze at the International Tournament of Monaco. Gosiewski won his opening three contests in the under-73kg class before losing his semi-final to France’s Julien Elfaiz. But he came back to beat Sammy Tamellin, also from France, in the battle for bronze. Gosiewski is studying for a Biomechanics PhD at the University of Bath, were he receives a Trendell Scholarship. Fellow...

13 December 2013

Bath-based swimmers collect Euro hat-trick

University of Bath-based swimmers won all three of Britain’s medals on the opening day of the European Short Course Championships in Denmark yesterday (Thursday). Eighteen-year-old Siobhan-Marie O’Connor won silver in the 200m individual medley with a personal best of 2:06.73 at the championships in Herning with training partner Sophie Allen taking bronze. And moments later fellow British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC) swimmer Jemma Lowe won bronze medal in the women’s 200m butterfly. London...

13 December 2013

University to host first Paralympic preparation camp in January

With 1,000 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Paralympic Games, the British Paralympic Association (BPA) has announced the first of a series of multi-sport preparation camps will be held at the University of Bath early next year. The camp will be on 3-5 January 2014 and is the first of several camps providing attendees the opportunity to spend time with athletes and staff from other sports in a multi-sport environment. It...

12 December 2013

Netballers turn on the style for photo launch

Team Bath’s Superleague netballers took some time away from their training to glam it up for their pre-season photoshoot in the heart of Bath. The reigning Superleague champions will be aiming to make it six titles from just nine seasons when they get their campaign underway at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on 31 January. Training for the new season is already well underway and the squad – an exciting combination of youth...

11 December 2013

Athletes’ achievements are celebrated

Four athletes who have won medals at world level competitions are the winners of the latest Team Bath athlete of the month awards. University of Bath-based triathlete Nicole Walters guided visually-impaired athlete Melissa Reid to gold at the World Paratriathlon Championships in London. Walters, who has a Sport and Exercise Science degree from the University of Bath, wins the women’s award for September. Ghanaian judo player Emmanuel Nartey takes the men’s award for September after...

10 December 2013