Cream of Britain’s winter sport athletes to converge on University of Bath

The cream of Britain’s winter sport athletes are heading to the University of Bath next month to take part in Team GB’s Sochi 2014 Conference. Around 50 Team GB hopefuls for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games are due to attend the conference, which runs from Saturday 10 August to Sunday 11 August. The University of Bath has a strong track record in hosting major events and sports teams. It hosted the main ParalympicsGB preparation camp...

29 July 2013

Kamlish rounds off campaign on a high note

Sixteen-year-old Sophie Kamlish rounded off Britain’s track campaign at the IPC Athletics World Championships with a bronze medal and personal best in the T44 200m. The London 2012 Paralympian, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, had just missed out on a medal in the 100m final in Lyon, finishing fourth on Thursday night. But the following day she went one place better to win a medal at her first World...

29 July 2013

Blake adds silver to gold at World Championships

Bath-based athlete Paul Blake was just edged out of a double gold medal winning performance at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France today (Friday). Blake added a silver medal in the T36 400m to the gold he won over 800m in Lyon on Monday. Gold today went to Evgenii Shvetcov, Russia’s Paralympic champion and world record holder. He crossed the line in 56.27 with Blake second in 56.72. Blake had set a  championship record...

26 July 2013

Spence bids to defend title as British team prepares to take on the world

University of Bath graduate Mhairi Spence gets the opportunity to defend her World Championship crown when she competes at the most important modern pentathlon competition since the London 2012 Olympics next month. Spence won the title in Rome in May of last year and is today named in the GB team to contest the 2013 World Championships in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, from 21 to 27 August. The team was named today at a media session...

24 July 2013

Unique partnership strengthens University’s sporting reputation

The University of Bath and Pentathlon GB are joining forces in a unique partnership in British sport. Pentathlon GB has based its High Performance Centre at Bath since 1999 with Olympic medal-winning athletes such as Samantha Murray (silver medallist in the London 2012 Games) combining their University studies with training and competing. This relationship is set to be strengthened further with some of Britain’s top modern pentathletes helping promote the University to potential future students....

24 July 2013

Blake strikes gold at World Champs

University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake struck gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France this morning. Blake added the T36 800m gold to the 400m title he won at the last World Championships in New Zealand two years ago. He did it in style at Lyon 2013, running from the front to claim Britain’s fourth gold of the championships in a personal best and championship record of 2:06.10. Blake, who is coached by...

22 July 2013

Rugby players miss out on bronze

University of Bath athletes just missed out on a medal on the final day of the World University Games when the GB women’s rugby sevens team went down to Canada in the bronze medal match. Deb Fleming, a Coach Education and Sports Development graduate, Katie Mason, a Sport and Exercise Science graduate, and Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student Amy Wilson-Hardy were members of the GB rugby sevens squad. The team played their bronze medal...

17 July 2013

Kirsten named in GB World Championships team

University of Bath student Kirsten McAslan has been selected to compete at next month’s athletics World Championships in Moscow. The 19-year-old Biochemistry student was today (Tuesday) named in the GB team alongside the likes of double Olympic champion Mo Farah and Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis. It’s only the second senior GB call-up for McAslan, who receives a Santander Sports Scholarship while she trains and studies at the University of Bath. McAslan is named in...

16 July 2013

Gold for Grace at World University Games

University of Bath graduate Grace McCatty has won her second World University Games medal after the British women’s football team beat Mexico in last night’s (Monday) final to strike gold. The GB team ran out 6-2 winners in the final – scoring four second half goals after the two teams were all-square at 2-2 at half time. The result means that McCatty adds a 2013 World University Games gold to the bronze she won in...

16 July 2013

Pentathletes land third medal of Euro Champs

Great Britain secured their third medal of the 2013 Modern Pentathlon European Championships as Kate French, Samantha Murray and Mhairi Spence won the women’s team gold in Poland today (Monday). And Freyja Prentice just missed out on an individual medal, coming home in fourth place in Drzonkow in her first major competition since recovering from a hamstring injury. Samantha Murray, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallist finished seventh in the individual competition, with Kate French...

15 July 2013