University of Bath student Poppy Clark continued an excellent start to her senior pentathlon career when she won a stunning silver at the UIPM World Cup in Budapest, Hungary. Fellow Team Bath Breakthrough Programme student-athlete Sebastian Forrest also earned a place on the wider podium after recording an impressive top-five finish on his first appearance
Pentathlete Poppy Clark, swimmer Christian Ryan and rugby player Max Pearce are the latest winners of the Team Bath Rengen Athlete of the Month award. All three student-athletes study and train at the University of Bath, where they are supported in their dual careers by the Student Performance Sport Breakthrough scheme. Biochemistry student Clark, who
Defending champions Joe Choong and Kate French plus Pentathlon GB colleagues Kerenza Bryson and Myles Pillage have today become the latest University of Bath-based athletes to be officially selected by Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a third Games apiece for French and fellow Tokyo gold-medallist Choong, who has won
University of Bath alumna Jess Varley was delighted to put a difficult 12 months behind her and keep her Olympic dreams alive by winning a superb silver at the UIPM Pentathlon World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pentathlon GB team-mate Emma Whitaker finished just outside the medals and Kate French placed 13th in a fiercely-fought women’s
Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza Bryson built on her best-ever fencing performance to claim the second UIPM World Cup gold of her career with a stunning performance in Ankara, Turkey. The University of Bath-based pentathlete, who had won bronze in the opening World Cup of the Paris 2024 Olympic season, was in magnificent form in the fencing
Pentathlon GB, the national governing body for the Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon, has launched a series of seven hubs across the UK to help increase participation. The hubs, which also intend to decentralise talent from its historic home base of Bath, will launch in April. The hubs will be located at: Millfield School in
The national governing body for the Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon, Pentathlon GB has won two prestigious awards for its World Championships held at the University of Bath in August 2023. Pentathlon GB scooped the Best Event category at this year’s Bath Awards 2024, and won the UIPM’s (The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne) Event
Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza Bryson won a brilliant bronze and there were top-10 finishes for fellow University of Bath-based athletes Kate French and Charlie Brown when Cairo hosted the first UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games season. Bryson went into the women’s final sitting in fifth place after the fencing ranking
Reigning Olympic Champion Kate French is aiming to be in Paris this summer to defend her modern pentathlon crown as she prepares to return to competition for the first time in nearly 18 months. French, who trains with Pentathlon GB at the University of Bath, has only competed twice since winning gold in record-breaking style
Jabeena Maslin MBE has been nominated for the Coach Award at the PLx Awards, hosted by UK Sport, for her work with the GBR Modern Pentathlon team. Dorset-based 78-year-old Maslin has been the British national team’s riding coach for the last eight Olympic cycles, with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games set to be her ninth,
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