University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Child has been named Scottish Athlete of the Year for 2013. The London 2012 Olympic collected the honour at a scottishathletics and jogscotland dinner in Glasgow on Saturday night. It came towards the end of a terrific year for Eilidh, who is coached in Bath by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach. Eilidh won 400m silver and helped the GB 4x400m relay quartet to gold at the European Indoor...
Jan Bartu, the University of Bath-based Performance Director of Pentathlon GB, has won a prestigious West Country sports award. Jan received the Performance Coach of the Year award at the West of England Celebration of Sport Evening on Thursday 24 October . The awards ceremony was run by Wesport, the West of England Sport Trust and was held in Bristol. He said the award recognised the team effort of everyone at Pentathlon GB, which has...
British Skeleton, which has its headquarters at the University of Bath, has named the athletes that will compete on the World Cup and Intercontinental Cup circuits in the lead-up to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The announcement comes after two days of selection racing on the Altenberg track in Germany. Lizzy Yarnold won the women’s selections races with Ed Smith winning the men’s competition. University of Bath Coach Education and Sports Performance graduate Shelley...
University of Bath-based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Sophie Allen continued their impressive FINA World Cup performances in Dubai and Doha. The pair, who train at British Swimming’s Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC), landed a brace of silver medals apiece at the Moscow World Cup. Michael, Britain’s London 2012 Olympic 200m breaststroke silver medalist, followed that up with gold in the 200m breaststroke in Dubai and silver in the 100m breaststroke. The University of Bath Sports...
University of Bath-based swimmers will make up half of the British team competing at the European Short Course Championships in Denmark in December. Six swimmers who train at British Swimming’s Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC) feature in the 12-strong team to compete at Herning on 12 to 15 December. Andrew Willis, a University of Bath Chemical Engineering student, is joined by fellow Bath ITC swimmer Michael Jamieson, a University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, as...
There was a double silver lining for Team Bath judo brother and sister Ben and Megan Fletcher as both produced impressive performances to finish runners-up at major international judo competitions at the weekend. The University of Bath-based pair were both in European Open action, with Megan competing in Rome and Ben in Glasgow. Megan contested the under-70kg class at the Rome European Open on Saturday (19 October). She fought her way to the final with...
Fifteen talented student athletes, including a world champion, a world junior champion, a European Junior Championship medalist and World Youth Championship medalists are among the latest recipients of University of Bath scholarships. University of Bath students who have displayed potential to succeed both academically and in their chosen sport can apply for the scholarships. They receive a cash award that runs over the period of their course and helps them meet the demands of training,...
Team Bath’s netballers and Paralympic world champions Stephanie Millward and Paul Blake are among the University of Bath-based athletes featuring on shortlists for the 2013 Bath Chronicle Sports Awards. Team Bath’s netballers continued their domination of the Superleague by winning their fifth title from just eight campaigns in 2013. The team’s present and past players also made up the majority of England squads that scored emphatic series wins over Australia and South Africa. The team...
University of Bath based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Sophie Allen both landed a pair of medals each at the weekend’s FINA World Cup in Moscow. Jamieson, the London 2012 Olympic 200m breaststroke silver medallist and University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, took 200m breaststroke silver in Moscow and followed that up with another silver in the 100m breaststroke. Allen, who like Jamieson trains at British Swimming’s Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC), kicked off her campaign...
University of Bath-based swimmers Michael Jamieson and Sophie Allen are set to compete at all six events of this autumn’s FINA World Cup tour, starting in Moscow at the weekend. The globetrotting pair, who both train at British Swimming’s Bath Intensive Training Centre, will follow that up by competing in Dubai, Doha, Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing, all within the space of a month. They will be joined by fellow Bath ITC swimmers Lizzie Simmonds and...
