BT Sport has announced the nominees for its annual Action Woman of the Year 2017 Award in association with The Telegraph. The awards, now in their fifth year, celebrate the ten most exceptional sporting performances by British female athletes throughout 2017. It has been an outstanding year for women’s sport with inspirational individual and team
Samantha Murray and Amelia Bissett won two titles apiece and there was more doubles success for Luke Johnson and Richard Gabb as Team Bath MCTA Tennis players continued their excellent form. Murray, fresh from winning the women’s doubles at the Joue-Les-Tours tournament in France, dominated the ITF Futures event in Wirral and dropped just one set
Team Bath Netball Superleague star Rachel Shaw plus badminton player Alex Lane and swimmer Anna Hopkin, both reigning national champions in their respective sports, are the latest Team Bath athletes to be named as MJ Church Ambassadors. They will join the likes of Paralympic silver-medallist Piers Gilliver (wheelchair fencing) and Olympians Ben Fletcher (judo) and
Liam Broady and Anna Smith both reached finals, while Samantha Murray, Richard Gabb and Luke Johnson were all victorious during an excellent week for Team Bath MCTA Tennis professionals on the international circuit. Broady, who last month became the first Team Bath MCTA player to reach the quarter-finals of an ATP World Tour singles tournament,
Pentathlon GB’s Jess Varley and Jamie Harper produced a scintillating laser run to charge through the field and claim a bronze medal at the Under 24 European Championships Mixed Relay in Poland. It made it two bronzes in three days for the Pentathlon GB team at the Championships following Varley, Kerenza Bryson and Zoe Davison’s
Great Britain’s Lucy Shuker, Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne have all qualified to take part in the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough next month – the season finale to the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis World Tour. The International Tennis Federation’s season-ending championship for the world’s top wheelchair singles players will be hosted once
Warwick’s Georgina Mitchell, Cholesbury’s Alex Bousfield and Plymouth’s Annabel Denton claim team bronze at modern pentathlon Olympic Hopes Mitchell, who studies and trains at Pentathlon GB Academy Plymouth College, finishes 4th in individual event for second consecutive year Dacorum MPC’s Alex records a top 10 finish with the youngest member of the team Annabel in
Stroud’s Zoe Davison, Plymouth’s Kerenza Bryson and Fotheringhay’s Jess Varley claim team bronze at modern pentathlon Under 24 European Championships Davison leads Brits home with 5th place individual finish University of Exeter’s Kerenza (8th), and University of Bath based Jess (9th) both record top 10 finishes Great Gaddsden’s Amy Silk finishes 21st on her international
Georgina Mitchell claimed the first individual international medal of her career as she stormed to gold at the Jury Horishko Memorial in Kyrgyzstan this weekend. The 16-year-old’s success was backed up by strong performances from all of the British contingent in Bishkek as fellow Plymouth College athlete Annabel Denton finished 7th whilst Yorkshire Pentathlon’s Toby
A quintet of swimmers have become the first Loughborough athletes to confirm their places at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, as Team England unveiled their first wave of swimming selections. Headlining the announcement is Olympic and World champion Adam Peaty, the world record holder named as one of 15 swimmers who will travel to the Gold
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