With just a week until the Opening Ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, the excitement is mounting for athletes with University of Bath links preparing to compete at the Games. More than 70 athletes with University connections were selected to represent 10 countries and compete in 10 sports at the Games, which open on Wednesday 23 July. They include 12 current University of Bath students selected for the Games. Two of them are also...
University of Bath students Sam Curry and Tom Toolis won bronze for the Pentathlon GB team at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Hungary. The pair came home third in the men’s relay competition on the final day of the championships in Székesfehérvár. It means the British team, which has its National Training Centre at the University of Bath, won two medals at the event following on from the mixed relay silver won by Samantha...
University of Bath student Sam Courty has been named in the Great Britain team to compete at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships later this month. The 21-year-old Sport and Exercise Science student will row in the British women’s eight at the championships, which take place in Varese, Italy from 23 to 27 July. Courty is a member of the 50-strong British squad for the championships. She trains on the GB Rowing Team’s Start programme at...
The University of Bath-based pair of Samantha Murray and Joe Evans won mixed relay silver at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Hungary yesterday (Monday). Murray, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallist and a University of Bath French and Politics graduate, teamed up with 20-year-old Evans for the mixed relay at the championships. The pair performed well across the day, coming joint third in the fencing, winning the swim and dropping just one pentathlon point...
As the countdown to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games continues, athletes with University of Bath links say they can’t wait to compete at the Games. The Opening Ceremony takes place in less than two weeks time on Wednesday 23 July and will be followed by 11 action-packed days of sport featuring 4500 athletes from 71 countries and territories. Some 70 athletes with University of Bath links have been selected for Glasgow 2014, where they will...
University of Bath student Jacob Paul has been selected to represent Great Britain at this month’s World Junior Championships in the USA. Paul, a Sport and Social Sciences student and Santander scholar, will run the 400m hurdles at the championships in Eugene, Oregon. He is joined in the GB squad by Elliot Rutter, who is coached by Dan Cossins at the University of Bath and runs in the 400m and is a member of the...
University of Bath-based swimmer Amelia Maughan says is excited to be selected to represent Great Britain at this summer’s Youth Olympic Games in China. The 18-year-old, who trains at British Swimming’s National Training Centre, Bath, was today (Wednesday) named in Team GB's 33-strong team for the Games. The event runs from 16 to 28 August in Nanjing and will see 3600 young athletes from more than 200 countries compete across 14 sports. “I’m really looking...
Some 70 athletes with University of Bath links have now been selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games – including 13 current students and 20 alumni. They will represent 10 countries – England, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – and compete in 10 sports – athletics, badminton, gymnastics, hockey, judo, netball, shooting, swimming, triathlon and weightlifting. The most recent announcements have seen the selection of...
Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey has confirmed he will be in action at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, despite injuring an ankle at the African Judo Championships in Mauritius at the weekend. Nartey, who represents Ghana at his second Commonwealths, went over on his right ankle in his quarter-final contest, before battling on to finish seventh in the under-70kg class. He flew back from Mauritius early, with support from the International Judo Federation, to...
Present and past Team Bath players will form the backbone of England’s netball squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Two current Team Bath players – Stacey Francis, a University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, and Serena Guthrie – feature in the final 12-strong squad for the Games. They line-up with seven former Team Bath players, including University of Bath graduates Sara Bayman (Sport and Exercise Science), Rachel Dunn (Biology), and sisters Kadeen and Sasha...
