Sprinter Leon Reid was today named in the Northern Ireland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 19-year-old will make his Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow, where he will run the 100m, 200m and 4x100m. Reid is coached at the University of Bath by James Hillier and won silver over 200m for Great Britain at last year’s European Junior Championships in Italy. He is a member of Northern Ireland’s 117-strong team for...
Two further University of Bath-based swimmers were today (Tuesday) added to the Wales squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Calum Jarvis, a University of Bath graduate, and Rachel Williams have been added to a 23-strong Wales swimming squad for Glasgow, where they will both make their Commonwealth Games debuts. They join Jemma Lowe, who also trains at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath and was selected for the Welsh team last year. Lowe competes at...
University of Bath-based swimmers were in impressive form as they continued their preparations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games at the Mare Nostrum Tour meet in Monaco. Lizzie Simmonds (right), who trains at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath, led the way, winning a pair of gold medals in the 100m and 200m backstroke. Simmonds, who has been selected to represent England at Glasgow 2014, swam a season’s best to win the 100m backstroke title. Jemma...
Former world champion hurdler Dai Greene will get the chance to defend his Commonwealth title at Glasgow 2014 after being selected today to represent Wales. Greene (pictured right), who trains at the University of Bath with Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles coach, runs the 400m hurdles for Wales. He is joined in the Welsh team by Rhys Williams, who used to train in Bath and who took bronze behind Greene at the Delhi Commonwealth...
Welsh weightlifter Natasha Perdue, who does some of her training at the University of Bath, will contest her third Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this year. The 38-year-old has competed at two of the three Commonwealth Games to feature women’s weightlifting, finishing fifth in the under-63kg weight division at Melbourne in 2006 and 12th at under-69kg at the Delhi 2010 Games representing Team Wales. She also competed for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, finishing...
Students and alumni feature among the 32 athletes with University of Bath links selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. And with 50 days to go until the start of the Games, many more Bath athletes are expected to win places at this year’s biggest multi-sport event. The 32 selected athletes will represent seven different countries and compete in seven sports at the Glasgow Games, which run from 23 July to 3 August....
Four Team Bath netballers feature in the England long squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, which was announced today (Monday). Rosie Allison, Stacey Francis, Serena Guthrie and Mia Ritchie feature in the 18-strong squad, which will be reduced to 12 players at the start of July. They quartet are joined by eight former Team Bath players, Ama Agbeze, Sara Bayman, Eboni Beckford-Chambers, Kadeen Corbin, Sasha Corbin, Rachel Dunn, Lindsay Keable and Geva Mentor. Captain...
Team Bath judoka Megan Fletcher and Gary Hall continued their preparations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games by winning bronze medals at the European Open in Madrid at the weekend. The pair, who train at the University of Bath, have both been selected to represent England at the Games. Megan Fletcher progressed through the women’s under-70kg draw, beating France’s Margaux Pinot in the battle for bronze. Hall also beat a French judo player, Axel Clerget,...
Two weightlifters with University of Bath links were today named in the England team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Zoe Smith, a bronze medallist at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealths aged just 16, competes in the under-58kg class in Glasgow. She currently does some of her training in the Team Bath Gym. And University of Bath Sports Performance study Sonny Webster has been selected to make his Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow. He...
Judo player Andrew Burns is the latest University of Bath graduate selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Burns is a member of the 14-strong Scottish judo squad announced by Commonwealth Games Scotland today (Wednesday). Burns graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development in 2009 and trained with Team Bath before making the move north of the border last year ahead of Glasgow 2014. He...
