Paralympic swimmers are taking part in a sponsored swim at the University of Bath to raise money for an inspirational charity that raises money to help seriously ill or disabled children enjoy the holiday of a lifetime. Two teams will complete the 4½ hour swimming challenge in the 50m pool at the Sports Training Village on Sunday (31 March) in the Dreamflight Generations for Generations sponsored swim. They aim to raise £3,500 for the charity...
Team Bath’s netballers will continue their quest for a fifth Superleague title with what promise to be three thrilling home fixtures against Surrey Storm, Hertfordshire Mavericks and Celtic Dragons next month. The action gets underway in Phase Two of the Superleague, the Showdown League, with a televised game against Surrey Storm at the Sports Training Village on Monday 15 April. Three days later, on Thursday 18 April, Team Bath host Hertfordshire Mavericks. And on Monday...
Team Bath judo players had another impressive weekend, collecting four medals at the Buenos Aires Pan-American Open in Argentina. Gregg Varey beat fellow Brit Graham Trinder in the third place contest to take bronze in the men’s under-60kg class. Varey found himself in the bronze medal match after losing to Russia’s reigning Olympic champion Arsen Galstyan, in his third preliminary round fight. The Russian went on to win the title in Buenos Aires. Ghana’s Emmanuel...
Team Bath’s netballers have made sure of a top-three finish in phase one of the Superleague – and with it a place in the Showdown League for phase two. Team Bath overcame Yorkshire Jets 54-51 in Friday night’s penultimate phase one game. They travel to Hertfordshire Mavericks on Friday (22 March) for their last game of phase one in joint first place with Surrey Storm. Defender Samantha Cook made a welcome return from injury against...
Team Bath judo player Ben Fletcher has secured the biggest win of his career to date by taking gold at the Pan-American Open in Uruguay. Fletcher (pictured) beat Brazil’s 2007 world champion Luciano Correa in the final of the over the under-100kg class to take gold in Montevideo. Juergen Klinger, head judo coach at the University of Bath, said: “It was a fantastic result for Ben, especially as it’s his first year as a senior...
Team Bath’s Jess Hopton is the new Under 17 English National Badminton Champion after capturing the title at the weekend. Hopton, who was seeded 5/8 for the championships, took gold with a 21-17, 14-21, 24-22 final win over Ira Banerjee. She had to do it the hard way, beating second seed Tsui-Yee Lau and joint third seed Lydia Powell en route to the title. Hopton just missed out on a repeat performance in the women’s...
Team Bath-MCTA’s Lisa Whybourn teamed up with Germany’s Nicola Geuer to take the Aegon GB Pro-Series women’s doubles title at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this weekend. The unseeded duo recorded a straight sets win over Viktorija Golubic and Julia Kimmelman, a Swiss–German combination in the final by 6-3,6-4. 21 year-old Whybourn, who is ranked in the world’s top 300 as a singles player, and Geuer also played an unseeded pair in the...
There was British success in the first final of the Aegon GB Pro-Series Bath competition, with Lewis Burton and Dan Evans taking the men’s doubles title at the Sports Training Village this afternoon (Friday). The British pair beat Jan Minar of the Czech Republic and Marek Semjan of Slovakia on a champions’ tie break in the final. Minar and Semjan had edged the opening set at the University of Bath by 7-5, before the British...
Britain’s hopes in the first final of the Aegon GB Pro-Series Bath competition rest on the shoulders of four seeds Lewis Burton and Dan Evans. The GB pairing tackle the unseeded Jan Minar of the Czech Republic and Marek Semjan of Slovakia in the men’s doubles final at the University of Bath Sports Training Village later today (Friday). Admission to watch the event is free. For an order of play and draw sheets go to...
Samm Butler and Aman Agarwal win ITF Junior Boy's Doubles Title - the Almetievsk Open, Russia. Butler, 17 and Agarwal, 16, paired up as top seeds for the week, they took the final by beating #2 local seeds Galyamoz and Mosgovey who defaulted in the second set at 1-3 after Butler and Agarwal won a close tie break to take the first set. R1 Kharchenko & Mokrousov 6-4 6-4 QF Bagdasaryan & Salbiev 4-6 6-4...
