World champions Dai Greene and Mhairi Spence head an impressive list of 25 athletes preparing to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games who train at the University of Bath. Athletes who train at the University will compete in seven different sports at the Games – athletics, badminton, beach volleyball, judo, modern pentathlon, rhythmic gymnastics and swimming. The vast majority of Bath-based athletes at London 2012 will represent Great Britain, with one each for Egypt...
The University of Bath-based beach volleyball pairing of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin were today (Monday) selected to represent Great Britain to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Zara and Shauna will be the first British athletes to represent Great Britain in beach volleyball since the 1996 Olympics, when the sport joined the Olympic programme. They have trained together since 2009 and are currently ranked 37th in the world. The University of Bath is...
University of Bath based athletes across a range of sports face a big week of action as they aim to pursue their Olympic dreams. Swimmers based at Team Bath have their next opportunity to qualify berths on the GB Olympic team when they compete at the British Gas ASA Nationals in Sheffield. The Nationals get underway tomorrow (Wednesday) and conclude on Saturday (23 June). Some 37 GB athletes – including the Bath-based trio of Michael...
The Bath-based British women’s beach volleyball squad have moved a step closer to qualifying two pairings to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The four-strong British team took gold at the semi-final of the CEV Continental Cup in France at the weekend to qualify a place at next month’s Final in Russia. The winner of the Continental Cup Final qualifies a place at the London 2012 Games. If the British team, whose UK training...
The campaign by beach volleyball pair Tom Lord and Robin Miedzybrodzki to qualify for London 2012 features on BBC One West's Inside Out programme on Monday. Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Jason Gardener, who trained at the University, met the pair to chart their progress for the BBC. You can see the results on Inside Out, which is screened at 7.30pm on Monday 21 November. Lord and Miedzybrodzki do some of their training at the Unviersity...
The British pairing of Denise Johns and Lucy Boulton just missed out on the medals at the London 2012 beach volleyball test event, finishing in an impressive fourth place. The pair, who do their UK-based training at the University of Bath, were just edged out in the battle for bronze 19-21, 18-21 by Brazil’s Vivian Cunha and Taiana Lima. They had earlier beaten the Beijing 2008 Olympic bronze medallists and world number one pair Chen...
University of Bath-based beach volleyball player and Team 2012 athlete Lucy Boulton is profiled on the Team 2012 website, discussing her ambitions, the highs and lows of life on the beach volleyball circuit, and her goal of reaching the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The thrills and spills of beach volleyball will be on display when the sport makes its debut at the 2010 British Beach Polo Championships at Sandbanks Beach in Poole. Players from Team Bath will feature in an exhibition match with an international flavour, the Sandbanks Slam, which will take place at the championships on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July. Both days of the championships will feature action from the Team Bath partnering Oakley exhibition...
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...
Four Bath-based beach volleyball players made their debut appearances at the World Championships in Stavanger, Norway. Both Lucy Boulton & Denise Johns and Zara Dampney & Shauna Mullin contested the opening pool stages of the competition. They were the first British teams to compete at the beach volleyball World Championships for a decade. British Volleyball’s beach volleyball programme is based at the University of Bath. Boulton and Johns started their campaign in pool E with...
