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Team Bath Round-Up – June 2012 University of Bath Team Bath Round-Up – June 2012 Modern Pentathlon BUCS Team Bath Athlete Mhairi Spence became the first World Modern Pentathlon Champion since Men’s Football Steph Cook in 2001 to take Gold in Rome with The University of Bath Men’s first XI are celebrating winning the British Universities and Samantha Murray (French and Politics) producing Colleges Sport (BUCS) Mars Football Championship title for the first time in 11 years beating a fantastic finish to take bronze. Stirling University 2-0 in the Championship final at Selhurst Park courtesy of goals form Craig Mullen and Robin Nicholls. The pair also joined forces with Heather Fell to Three members of the squad Hector Mackie, Noah Keats and Simon Dunn also recently featured take Team Gold and the relay team of Katy Burke, Kate French and Katy Livingston picking for England Universities team at the BUCS Home Nations. up bronze on the opening day of the Championships. The team for the BUCS final was: Austin Byfield (Sports Performance), Steve Hunt (MSc Management), Scott Dixon (Sports Performance), Noah Keats (Sports Performance), Michael Wright (Sports Performance), Jonjo O’Hara (Sports Performance), Tim Piotrowski (MSc Management), Robin Nicholls (Sport Performance), Simon Dunn (Sports Performance), Craig Mullen, Tom Andrews (Sports Peformance). Subs: Hector Mackie (Sports Performance), The Men’s final consisted of Nick Woodbridge and Jamie Cooke, with Nick producing his best Ruaridh Kay (Sports Performance), Gordon Rieck (German & Politics), Liam Knight (Sports performance at a World Championships, finishing 10 th and Cooke finishing 33 rd . Performance), Mike Bawn (Sports Performance). Shortly after the World Championships Heather Fell was the only British female athlete at the th BUCS Athletics World Cup final where she won a silver medal, after climbing from 10 place in the run/shoot, At the beginning of May hundreds of students had the opportunity to be part of the first meaning she is likely to be the fourth athlete to achieve the Olympic 2012 qualifying standard. competitive event to be held in the Olympic Stadium with the BUCS Outdoor Athletics acting as the test event, where the University of Bath finished 3 rd in the overall table with two gold, seven In the Men’s competition Britain’s Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale just missed out on the medals silver and one bronze. finishing fifth and seventh respectively. This means that they will also join reigning World Junior Champion Jamie Cooke who finished 19 th to achieve the Olympic Qualifying standard in which Gold medals were claimed by Sophie Tyers (Sports Performance) who added the outdoor 800m two places are available. title to her indoor title she won earlier in the season; along with Ben Nagy (Sport & Exercise Athletics Science) who took home the Men’s 3000m title. Silvers went to Danny Talbot (Sport Team Bath Athlete Katrina Hart struck a sprint double gold in the T37 100m and 200m as Performance) in the 100m, Alex Warner (Economics) in the Men’s Hammer, Jo White University Bath-based athletes collected five medals at the BT Paralympic World Cup competition (Economics & International Development) in the women’s 200m, Jack Meredith (Sports in Manchester. Ben Rushgrove took silver in the T36 200m and bronze in the 100m, with Bath Performance) in the 110 Hurdles, Hannah Lewis (Civil Engineering) in the long jump alongside based athlete Sophie Kamish taking bronze in the T42/43/44 200m. both the men’s and women’s 4x100 relay. Matthew Sumner (Sports Performance) took home a bronze in the 400m hurdles. Paralympic athlete and current World Champion Paul Blake made history at the London 2012 Triathlon Paralympic athletics test event clocking a new World Record in the T36 1500m 4:34.42. In the sprint triathlon Sports Coaching student Doug Hall picked up a bronze in the Men’s event with Coach Education and Sports Development Katie Synge taking bronze in the Olympic A group of Bath based athletes travelled to the Loughborough International where Andrew Pozzi Distance event. won the 110m hurdles ahead of Team Bath Athlete Lawrence Clarke who competed at the event as a guest, with Jack Meredith (Sports Performance) competing for British Universities finishing in th th th Hockey 4 , Will Sharman finished 5 and James Gladman (Sports Performance) for GB Juniors 6 . The national U12 finals took place at Cannock hockey club consisting of 10 teams taken from 5 regions. The teams are placed into two pools and to reach the final a team has to top its group. In the 3000m steeplechase Team Bath Athlete Ben Nagy (Sports & Exercise Science) competing Team Bath Buccaneers who after going into their last pool match knowing that they had already th rd for England finished 5 , with teammate Steve Mitchell (Biology) finishing 3 in the 1500m. progressed into the final the team went on to face a West Country rivals Avalon hockey club and after suffering defeat in the Regional Final the team got their revenge and battled hard to become Sophie Tyers (Sports Performance) competing for British Universities finished 4 th with Bath based In2Hockey Club Championship Champions. athletes Ellidh Child winning the 400m Hurdles and Amy Woodman finishing 5 th in the Long Jump. Olympics University of Bath student and badminton player Hadia Hosny El Said has taken a big step closer Beach Volleyball British Beach Volleyball moved a step closer to qualifying two women’s teams for the Olympics to competing at her second Olympic Games after achieving the London 2012 qualifying with the Team Bath athletes Shauna Mullin, Zara Dampney, Denise Johns & Lucy Boulton taking standard. The Egyptian player has been combining training at the University with studying for an gold in the semi-final of the CEV Continental Cup in France at the weekend to qualify for a play in MSc in Medical Biosciences at the University’s Department of Biology and Biochemistry and next month’s final in Russia, with the winner of this tournament qualifying for a place at the has qualified a spot for London 2012 by finishing as the highest African women’s singles player London 2012 Games. If the British team win they will qualify a second team for the 2012 games in in the world rankings during the Olympic qualifying period. addition to the host nation berth they receive. Emmanuel Nartey will also fulfil a lifelong dream by competing at his first Olympic Games and Netball in doing so become the first Ghanaian to represent his country in judo, by securing his Team Bath’s young netballers ended their 2012 Fiat Netball Superleague campaign in fourth place qualification to the games after finishing fifth-place at the African Championships in April. after the team went down 62-38 to Surrey Storm in Saturday’s Superleague Showdown semi-final to set up a third/fourth place play-off against Hertfordshire Mavericks, with the Mavericks edging rd the game to take 3 spot. This also offered the opportunity for Kate McGinley (Biology) to become the latest young Team Bath player to make he debut in Saturdays game. Athletes of the Month Supported By Ellis & Killpatrick Outside of the super league as the GB Universities squad prepare for the World Universities New Bond Street Championships in South Africa, Yasmin Parsons (Sports Performance) captained the side in their warm up matches against Northern Panthers and Glasgow Wildecats and an England Talent squad, winning all three games. The squad comprising of Trendell Scholars Yasmin, Kadeen Corbin (Sports Performance) and Mia Ritchie (Sports Performance) who have also been supported by the Following all the results from June, this months Elite Athlete Support Fund will leave for South Africa on the 27 th June. Performance of the Month goes to: All three Trendell Scholars athletes also combined with Gemma Fletcher in the Netball Europe Mhairi Spence - Following her victory at the World Modern Open Competition with Yasmin Parsons receiving her first England Senior Camp. The team dominated the competition with comfortable victories over Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to Pentathlon Championships. retain the trophy. Paul Blake - Following his World Record at the Paralympic Test Event in the T36 1500M. If you have any results you would like to share, please email Rachael Hares: [email protected] [email protected] For any further information see: .
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