Team Bath MCTA Academy player Sam Murray has achieved a career high world ranking of 189, making her the first Team Bath player to achieve a place in the world’s top-200. Murray has climbed almost 100 places in the rankings this season – she ended 2012 with a world ranking of 283. Back to back finals appearances at the Granby and Winnipeg ITF tournaments in Canada last month saw her progress to the top-200. And...
The England beach volleyball pair of Lucy Boulton and Zara Dampney finished 17th at the CEV European Beach Volleyball Championship Finals in Austria. The pair, who do some of their training at the University of Bath, secured a victory over the Czech pair of Hana Skalnikova and Patricia Missottenova to progress from pool G to the main draw. But they were then just edged out of a place in round two with a narrow 22-24,...
University of Bath based swimmers Andrew Willis and Michael Jamieson were just edged out of the medals at the Swimming World Championships in Barcelona. The pair, who train at the British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre came home in fourth and fifth place in the final of the 200m breaststroke on Friday (2 August) night. Willis, who is studying for a Chemical Engineering degree at the University, clocked a time of 2:09.13 to achieve his...
West Bromwich Albion’s young footballers fine-tuned their preparations for the new Barclays Under-21 Premier League at a three-day team-building camp at the University of Bath. The under-21 squad stayed and ate on campus and trained in the £30 million Sports Training Village during the visit. They rounded off the camp with a friendly fixture against the Southampton Academy (Bath), which is based at the University. David Oldfield, West Brom’s Senior Professional Development Coach, who headed...
University of Bath student and judo player Jan Gosiewski has been selected to compete at his first World Championships. Gosiewski is a member of the nine-strong British team for the championships, which take place at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil from 26 August to 1 September. He will be joined at the championships by another Team Bath player, Emmanuel Nartey, who represents Ghana at his sixth World Championships. The pair will both contest the under-73kg...
The cream of Britain’s winter sport athletes are heading to the University of Bath next month to take part in Team GB’s Sochi 2014 Conference. Around 50 Team GB hopefuls for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games are due to attend the conference, which runs from Saturday 10 August to Sunday 11 August. The University of Bath has a strong track record in hosting major events and sports teams. It hosted the main ParalympicsGB preparation camp...
Sixteen-year-old Sophie Kamlish rounded off Britain’s track campaign at the IPC Athletics World Championships with a bronze medal and personal best in the T44 200m. The London 2012 Paralympian, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk at the University of Bath, had just missed out on a medal in the 100m final in Lyon, finishing fourth on Thursday night. But the following day she went one place better to win a medal at her first World...
Bath-based athlete Paul Blake was just edged out of a double gold medal winning performance at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France today (Friday). Blake added a silver medal in the T36 400m to the gold he won over 800m in Lyon on Monday. Gold today went to Evgenii Shvetcov, Russia’s Paralympic champion and world record holder. He crossed the line in 56.27 with Blake second in 56.72. Blake had set a championship record...
University of Bath graduate Mhairi Spence gets the opportunity to defend her World Championship crown when she competes at the most important modern pentathlon competition since the London 2012 Olympics next month. Spence won the title in Rome in May of last year and is today named in the GB team to contest the 2013 World Championships in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, from 21 to 27 August. The team was named today at a media session...
The University of Bath and Pentathlon GB are joining forces in a unique partnership in British sport. Pentathlon GB has based its High Performance Centre at Bath since 1999 with Olympic medal-winning athletes such as Samantha Murray (silver medallist in the London 2012 Games) combining their University studies with training and competing. This relationship is set to be strengthened further with some of Britain’s top modern pentathletes helping promote the University to potential future students....
