University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake struck gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships in France this morning. Blake added the T36 800m gold to the 400m title he won at the last World Championships in New Zealand two years ago. He did it in style at Lyon 2013, running from the front to claim Britain’s fourth gold of the championships in a personal best and championship record of 2:06.10. Blake, who is coached by...
University of Bath athletes just missed out on a medal on the final day of the World University Games when the GB women’s rugby sevens team went down to Canada in the bronze medal match. Deb Fleming, a Coach Education and Sports Development graduate, Katie Mason, a Sport and Exercise Science graduate, and Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student Amy Wilson-Hardy were members of the GB rugby sevens squad. The team played their bronze medal...
University of Bath student Kirsten McAslan has been selected to compete at next month’s athletics World Championships in Moscow. The 19-year-old Biochemistry student was today (Tuesday) named in the GB team alongside the likes of double Olympic champion Mo Farah and Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis. It’s only the second senior GB call-up for McAslan, who receives a Santander Sports Scholarship while she trains and studies at the University of Bath. McAslan is named in...
University of Bath graduate Grace McCatty has won her second World University Games medal after the British women’s football team beat Mexico in last night’s (Monday) final to strike gold. The GB team ran out 6-2 winners in the final – scoring four second half goals after the two teams were all-square at 2-2 at half time. The result means that McCatty adds a 2013 World University Games gold to the bronze she won in...
Great Britain secured their third medal of the 2013 Modern Pentathlon European Championships as Kate French, Samantha Murray and Mhairi Spence won the women’s team gold in Poland today (Monday). And Freyja Prentice just missed out on an individual medal, coming home in fourth place in Drzonkow in her first major competition since recovering from a hamstring injury. Samantha Murray, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallist finished seventh in the individual competition, with Kate French...
Olympic rowing gold medallist Helen Glover and her partner Polly Swann completed a hat-trick of 2013 World Cup gold titles when they won in Switzerland on Sunday (14 July). The British duo struck gold in the women’s pair in Lucerne in the face of strong opposition from New Zealand and the USA. Their victory in Lucerne followed on from earlier successes this year in Sydney and Eton Dorney. Glover, the Olympic champion with Heather Stanning...
University of Bath graduate Grace McCatty is guaranteed a second World University Games medal when Great Britain play in the women’s football final in Russia tonight (Monday). The Coach Education and Sports Development graduate won bronze in Belgrade last time around and is now certain of at least a silver in Kazan. Great Britain secured a place in the final against Mexico by beating Brazil 1-0 in Saturday’s semis. Tonight’s final is at 8pm local...
Reigning world champion Dai Greene ran a season’s best to take 400m hurdles gold at the Sainsbury’s British Championships in Birmingham at the weekend. Greene, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold – British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach - clocked a season’s best 48.66 seconds to beat former training partner Rhys Williams into second place at the championships, which doubled as the trials for the World Championships in Moscow. Greene said: “It was nice to come...
University of Bath-based sprinter Danny Talbot is celebrating a brace of medals at the European Under-23 Championships in Finland. The 22-year-old, who is coached by Dan Cossins, won silver in the 200m and followed that up with gold in the 4x100m on yesterday’s (Sunday) final day of action in Tampere. Talbot ran the second leg in the relay final partnering Adam Gemili, Deji Tobais and Dannish Walker-Khan as the quartet set a new European under-23...
The young trio of Jamie Cooke, Sam Curry and Joe Evans made it two medals in two days for Great Britain at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships when they won the men’s team relay bronze in Poland today (Friday). Their success followed the gold won by Katy Burke, Kate French and Samantha Murray in the women’s team relay on yesterday’s (Thursday) opening day of the championships in Drzonkow. The men’s trio featured two teenagers –...
