University of Bath-based wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver can begin preparing for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in earnest after finishing his qualification campaign ranked number one in the world. The 21-year-old won a silver medal at the IWAS European Championships in Torino, Italy on Thursday to confirm his status as the top epee fencer during
Pentathlon GB has selected nine University of Bath-based athletes, including two current students and six graduates, for next week’s World Championships – the last qualifying event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Samantha Murray, World Champion in 2014, is named in the women’s team along with Kate French, Joanna Muir and Freyja Prentice. Jamie Cooke,
The 2016 World Rowing Cup heads to Lucerne, Switzerland for the second World Rowing Cup and entries have come in from 51 nations with more than 550 athletes ready to compete. This is an increase on the first World Rowing Cup as a number of nations from outside of Europe have chosen to compete at
Pentathlon GB will send a 9-strong team to compete in next week’s 2016 Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Moscow, it has been announced today. The competition represents the final qualifying event before the Rio Olympic Games. At just 26, former World Champion Samantha Murray is the oldest member of the team that contains significant experience
The glorious past, exciting present and bright future of modern pentathlon was celebrated at the University of Bath on Wednesday when Dr Stephanie Cook and Kate Allenby were welcomed into the Hall of Fame for Sport. The current Pentathlon GB athletes training towards the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were among those watching
University of Bath-based swimmers Chris Walker-Hebborn and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor helped Great Britain defend their European Championships mixed 4x100m medley relay title at the London Aquatics Centre on Tuesday. The British Swimming National Centre Bath duo teamed up with Adam Peaty – fresh from winning the 100m breaststroke title – and Fran Halsall to win gold
Defending champion Georgia Pipes produced a great all-round performance to finish second and pick up another medal at the Milan Kadlec Memorial in Prague on Saturday (14th May). Meanwhile, first-year Junior athlete Georgina Summers finished 16th after being eliminated in the ride, the final discipline of the day, having been well placed in 4th beforehand.
England’s Chloe Birch and Sarah Walker won their first title together after landing the Slovenia International women’s doubles title on Sunday. Birch and Walker, the fourth seeds, beat England’s Jess Pugh and Cheryl Seinen of the Netherlands 22-20. 21-19. The English pairing, who reached the Portuguese International final in March, beat Ukranian top seeds Natalya
Pentathlon GB’s Junior Team head to Prague this weekend to compete in the Milan Kadlec Memorial. The competition represents another opportunity for the young Brits to build up their international competition experience against their counterparts from abroad. The Women’s team contains defending champion Georgia Pipes and Georgina Summers, younger sister of current Junior World Champion
Earlier this week I was privileged to have the opportunity to interview Lucy Shuker. For anyone who doesn’t know, Lucy is an British wheelchair tennis player, ranked #7 in the world at singles and #8 in the world in doubles. Lucy’s life changed forever in 2001 when, just 12 days after getting her motorbike licence she
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