Andy Pozzi collected his first senior national title at the weekend’s Aviva UK Trials and Championships in Sheffield. The 19-year-old, who trains at the University of Bath with Malcolm Arnold, UK Athletics National Events Coach Hurdles, clocked the World Indoors qualifying standard as he won the 60m hurdles title at the championships. He equalled his pb with a time of 7.63 in the final. “I was pleased with that run,” he said, “It was a...
Team Bath judo player Megan Fletcher achieved the highest World Cup finish of her career to date when she came seventh in Budapest at the weekend. Despite a tough draw in the 70kg class, she beat players from Ukraine and Russia before going down to the eventual gold medallist Fei Chen from China. That put her in a repechage contest against Iljana Marzok, which the German won to take fifth. Megan's brother, Ben, is scheduled...
Team Bath recorded the first victory of their 2012 Fiat Netball Superleague campaign with an emphatic 56-31 win at Loughborough Lightning last night (Monday). The result sees Team Bath leap up to fifth place in the Superleague table and means they are still in a strong position to be in the top-four at the completion of the first phase of this year’s Superleague campaign, when the table splits into two tiers. Head coach Jess Garland...
The University of Bath swimming team finished runners-up at the overall British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Long Course Championships at the weekend. Calum Jarvis and Jenny Oldham both won one individual event each and were runners-up in another at the championships in Sheffield. Jarvis, a University of Bath Sports Performance student, won the 200m freestyle final in 1:51.83 and came second in the 200m backstroke. He was also a member of both the men’s...
Olympic silver medal winning modern pentathlete Heather Fell took a break from her build-up to the 2012 season to open a Sport and Fashion Exhibition at Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Fashion Museum. The Beijing 2008 Olympian and former world number one was asked to perform the honours at the exhibition at Bath’s historic Assembly Rooms. Heather is currently ranked number eight in the world and is preparing for the first World Cup of...
Lizzy Arnold, who trains at the University of Bath's Sports Training Village, won her second Skeleton World Cup title of the season when she took gold in Calgary. The 23-year-old followed up her victory in St Moritz last month with her second World Cup victory in Canada. In between Lizzy, who was only pomoted to British Skeleton's World Cup team four weeks ago, found time to win the World Junior Championships on the Igls track...
Top tennis returns to Bath next month as the AEGON GB Pro-Series ATP Challenger tournament makes its second appearance at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. The men’s Challenger competition is the highlight of two weeks of top tennis at the Sports Training Village. The action kicks off with two ITF Pro Circuit events – the men’s $15,000 tournament and a $10,000 competition for women from 10 to 17 March. The men’s €42,500 ATP...
Cash raised at Team Bath’s charity pre-season netball contest was presented to the Mayor of Bath at half-time in Friday’s Fiat Netball Superleague fixture. Team Bath took on an All-Stars team for the season preview game in December. Admission was free but fans were encouraged to make a donation to charity or buy a raffle ticket. Proceeds went to the Mayor of Bath’s Relief Fund. Mayor of Bath Councillor Bryan Chalker came along to Team...
University of Bath student Panuga Riou made quarter-final exit from the women’s singles at the English National Badminton Championships. The 19-year-old Coach Education and Sports Development student went down 21-11, 21-15 to Kate Robertshaw, who went on to finish as runner-up at the tournament in Sheffield. University of Bath graduates Mariana Agathangelou and Heather Olver reached the final of the women’s doubles, where they went down to Jenny Wallwork and Gabby White. Another University graduate,...
Team Bath’s young guns produced a spirited fight back against top of the table Surrey Storm before going down 65-52 in tonight’s Fiat Netball Superleague fixture at the University of Bath. The visitors did the damage in the opening quarter, which they took 21-8. But Team Bath battled back to take the second quarter by two goals and Storm edged both the third and fourth quarters by a single goal to secure the points. Jess...
