Former England and British Lions hooker Mark Regan is planning a return to action in a competition overseas - but he's put on a few pounds since his retirement. So who better to advise him on getting back into shape than Jonathan Robinson, an Applied Physiologist at the University of Bath's Human Performance Centre. You can find out more about Regan's report on BBC Points West by clicking here.
Team Bath judo players Tom Reed and Sian Wilson both won medals at the GB World Cup event in Birmingham at the weekend. Reed, a University of Bath Business Administration student, lost a closely contested final in the under-81kg class to fellow Brit Euan Burton, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Reed (pictured) had earlier dispatched a couple of Russians and a German to get to the final – beating Salamu...
International badminton comes to the University of Bath next month when the Sports Training Village hosts a Team England match against Japan. The match, which gets underway at 6.45pm on Friday 16 October, is the first international badminton fixture to take place at the University. For Team England, which is supported by Center Parcs, it is a prelude to the 100th All England Open Championships in Birmingham in March and the European Individual Championships in...
There was disappointment for University of Bath graduates Adam Freeman-Pask and Marcus Bateman at the World Rowing Championships in Poland. Freeman-Pask had to settle for a place in the B final of the lightweight single scull after finishing sixth in his semi-final in Poznan. The University of Bath Natural Sciences graduate came second in the B final, finishing seven seconds behind Jaap Schouten of the Netherlands. That put him eighth overall – an improvement on...
The University of Bath-based pair of Shauna Mullin and Zara Dampney achieved their best result yet on the Swatch FIVB World Tour when they came ninth at the Otera Open in Kristiansand, Norway. Shauna and Zara beat 10th-seeded Janne Kongshavn and Kathrine Maaseide of Norway 21-19, 19-21, 15-10 and followed that up with a 21-13 and 21-18 victory over seventh-seeded Vivian Cunha and Angela Vieira of Brazil. The pair, who battled their way through the...
University of Bath graduates Marcus Bateman and Adam Freeman-Pask will both be in World Championships action for the GB Rowing Team in Poland next week. Bateman is a member of the GB men’s quadruple scull. The British quad raced to a superb silver medal behind Germany in the World Cup in Lucerne earlier this season, their second World Cup silver of the year. Bateman graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Sports...
University of Bath graduate Aaron Harris has been named by British Triathlon as part of its squad to compete at the Dextro Energy ITU World Championships Series Grand Final in Australia next month. The 21-year-old Sports Performance graduate races in the under-23 category at the Gold Coast. He finished 42nd in the senior men’s race at Hyde Park in the London round of the World Championships last weekend.
Three of University of Bath's high performance rugby group will make their debuts for Bath RFC at this weekend's Middlesex sevens Paul Roberts and Ted Stagg of the University 1st XV plus Team Bath Academy prospect Ben Loosemore all feature in the squad. Three other university players due to arrive September 2009 are also making their Bath RFC debuts - Matt Spellman, Matt Keyte and Joe Ellyatt.
University of Bath-based rower Victoria Thornley is celebrating gold at the Under-23 World Rowing Championships. Thornley, who trains at the University of Bath and Minerva Bath Rowing Club, struck gold with the British women’s eight at the competition in Racice, the Czech Republic at the weekend. It is the first time a British women’s eight have won World Championship gold at any level. The performance is all the more remarkable as 21-year-old Thornley has only...
University of Bath students Natasha Hunt, Nicola Hoole and Davinia Monteiro all played crucial roles in England rugby under-20s’ 110-0 thrashing of their USA counterparts. The game proved to be a showcase of English rugby and a dramatic end to the Women’s Under-20s Nations Cup Campaign. Hosted by Brunel University, England faced other U20 squads from Canada, USA and Wales over a two-week period and dominated the tournament from the beginning, winning the pool games...
