University of Bath Team Bath Round-Up – November 2011

SAILING- Anna Burnett and Flora ALUMNI Stewart awarded the Marlow SAILING- Bath graduate’s sporting record results in London 2012 Ropes Award selection Bath alumna, Alexandra Rickham (BSc Natural Sciences 2004), has been Skandia Team GBR Transitional Squad selected to compete for Great Britain at the London 2012 Paralympic nd sailors Flora Stewart (2 year Sports Games in sailing. She will compete in the SKUD 18 (two-person keelboat Performance) and her Team Mate Anna event) with fellow athlete, Niki Birrell. Burnett and have received an additional boost to their flourishing 470 campaign Their selection is well-deserved; the duo already has a string of successes to their by being awarded with the prestigious names including three successive World Championship titles. Marlow Ropes Award. JUDO- Team Bath Judo The pair began crewing together in November 2007 and after competing in only The Marlow Ropes Award was Athletes selected to represent two regattas, was selected for Beijing 2008. They now have four years experience introduced in 2002 with the aim of GB at 2011 Judo World Cup behind them, and are hopeful of a medal-winning performance in 2012. rewarding Britain’s most promising Four Team Bath Athletes were young sailors for their determination, focus and talent. The young sailors have RUGBY – University Graduate misses out on World Cup Final selected to be part of the 24-strong University of Bath graduate Luke Charteris said it was heartbreaking for his Great Britain men’s Judo team to had an impressive run of results on the summer circuit including a silver medal Wales side to miss out on a place in the IRB World Cup final. compete at the 2011 GB World Cup at Echo Arena Liverpool, at at the Delta Lloyd 470 Junior World Championships, Netherlands. Wales went down 9-8 to France in Saturday’s semi-final in Auckland, just the beginning of October; Gregg missing out on a berth in the final for the first time in their history. They then Varey, Jan Gosiewski, Tom Reed went on to miss out on 3 rd place losing 18-21 to Australia. and Andy Burns. UPCOMING SELECTIONS British Judo’s two-day showpiece, which is supported by UK Sport Netball Quartet in England Long Squad and Liverpool City Council takes Four Team Bath netballers feature in England’s 15-strong long squad for the place in Liverpool for the first time World Netball Series fast net competition taking place in Liverpool in November. this year and will be the biggest Judo competition to be held in Eboni Beckford-Chambers, Stacey Francis and Serena Guthrie are joined in the Britain before the Olympic Games squad by University Jeff Trendell Scholar Kadeen Corbin (Sports Performance), and was a significant event for who made her senior England debut during the tour of New Zealand and Australia some of the sports top nations. earlier this month.

The same event also saw Team SWIMMING- European Championships Bath Athlete Emmanuel Nartey, Eight of Team Bath’s swimmers are preparing for action on the international representing Ghana pick up a silver circuit featuring the LEN European Championships (25m Short Course) in medal. December. The British team includes Kris Gilchrist, Michael Jamieson (Sports Performance), Chris Walker-Hebborn, Andrew Willis (Chemical Engineering), TENNIS - Hunt equals best world ranking Jessica Dickons (Sports Performance), Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Stacey Tadd and Haley Towner (Sports Performance). University of Bath student Louise Hunt goes into her final wheelchair tennis tournament of the season after winning her fourth title in two weeks in Athletes of the Month Greece.

Supported By Ellis & Killpatrick A week after winning singles and doubles titles at the Esporta Cardiff New Bond Street tournament, Hunt repeated the feat at the Sitia Open in Greece and has subsequently equaled her career best women’s singles world ranking, to 18. October

Following performances from September the following Hunt, a Sports Performance student and British number three, paired up with Osterer for the women’s doubles, the duo making the final with few athletes have been named Athlete of the Month: problems before another dominant performance saw them lift the title after Dai Green (400m Hurdles) - following his Gold Medal a 6-0, 6-1 win over Swiss second seeds Grangier and Annabelle Ribeaud. at the World Athletics Championships. Freyja Prentice (Modern Pentathlon)- Following her - Turkish Open trio of medals at the Junior World Championships (Gold-Relay, Silver- Team, Bronze- Individual). Team Bath athlete Chris Coles and partner Jessica Fletcher finished runners-up in the mixed doubles at the Turkish Open in October. The pair seeded fourth in the competition went down to top seeds and November in an all English Final. From the round up of these months’ results the award

for Athlete of the Month goes to the following Coles also reached the semi-finals of the men’s doubles with Matt Nottingham losing to top seeds Stawski and Pail van Rietvelde. athletes: Louise Hunt (Wheelchair Tennis) - Following a In the same competition Jeff Trendell Sports Scholar Panuga Riou (Coach successful month on the circuit equalling her highest Education and Sports Development) reached the quarter-finals of the World Ranking. Women’s singles where she went down to Greece’s number four seed who Emmanuel Nartey (Judo) - Silver Medal at the Judo went on to win the tournament. World Cup in Liverpool, 7 th Grand Prix Abu Dhabi.

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