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GYMNASTICS • The standard of the gymnasts competing this year again increased at the Gymnastics Championships. Hosted at the City of Newcastle Gymnastics Academy, Grade 1 competitors had the opportunity to use the championships as part of their selection process for the World University Games • Britain’s most famous gymnast, Beth Tweddle was part of Team GBR at the World University Games in Belgrade. Liverpool student, Tweddle won GB’s first gold medals at the event in the Uneven Bars and Floor events HOCKEY • Hockey continues to be one of the most popular sports within the BUCS programme with over 280 women’s and 264 men’s teams • The season’s women’s Championship final involved a raft of England and Great Britain talent on show including the likes of Jo Ellis, Sam Quek, Sarah Page and Kirsty Mackay. The men’s final included international players such as Richard Smith and Adam Dixon, who went on to win gold for England in the European Championships in August • Another notable highlight of the year is University of Edinburgh student Stephen Dick being awarded Scottish Universities Sport (SUS) Athlete of the Year • The development of the National Performance Centres within higher education has strengthened the relationship between BUCS and England Hockey. 2010 will see Edinburgh host the Hockey World University Championships. The new PricewaterhouseCoopers sponsorship will further help to enhance the BUCS hockey offer JUJITSU • The BUCS Jujitsu championships ran as part of the Jitsu Foundation National Championships. It is one of the largest BUCS martial arts events with 411 BUCS student entrants from 56 member institutions BUCS 10 annual review JUDO • The individual and team championships were part of this year’s BUCS Championships in Sheffield • Over 215 individual male and female competitors represented 35 universities, with good representation from all home nations • 23 university teams and 7 regional teams provided some more exciting closely contested Judo matches in the team championships with University of Bath taking home the men’s and women’s titles • Gemma Gibbons won bronze in the U70kg category of Judo at the World University Games in Serbia KARATE • The BUCS Karate Championship is now the largest adult Karate competition in the UK with 450 athletes taking part. In a commitment to continually improve the event, BUCS attracted some of the UK’s best officials, with a full complement on each mat, as well as six International and seven British qualified officials • In July 2009 BUCS Karate attended the EUSA championships in Cordoba Spain achieving its best medal total. BUCS Karate gained its first ever International Male team kumite medal by defeating Germany to take Bronze. Individual medals were won Amy Thomason, Lisa McCann along with Alton Brown and Albert Forsyth, who all fought well to take Bronze medals • In December 2008 BUCS Karate attended a friendly international at the invitation of University of Naples. The squad was largely composed from the team that had attended the FISU world championship earlier in the year KORFBALL • For the first time the Nationals event was held as part of the BUCS Championships in Sheffield. Sixteen teams took to the court in Sheffield, where University of Birmingham won its first ever title • The Channel 4 Destination 2012 programme featured Olympic badminton star Gail Emms learning how to play Korfball with England international Korfballer, Tom Brady at the event • Development of the sport has seen a new club emerge at the University of Bedfordshire and plans for next year include a development fund to support new clubs and a new partnership with the South West Korfball Association for universities in that region LACROSSE • Men’s Lacrosse was introduced as a new league sport, and attracted 38 teams across the five playing conferences. The finals, staged within the BUCS Championships witnessed local university Sheffield, beat local rivals Nottingham 12-5 to be crowned Men’s Lacrosse Champions • A new Lacrosse Sports Management Group was formed to further develop university Lacrosse and closer links were forged with the Lacrosse governing bodies MODERN BIATHLON . PENTATHLON • The BUCS Modern Biathlon and Pentathlon Championships were held in Oxford in March 2009. With 26 universities taking part, the event was a great success with over 176 competitors for the Biathlon and 69 competitors for the Pentathlon NETBALL *Supported by Kukri • A total of 351 netball teams played in 55 leagues, 5 Conference Cup competitions, a Championship and Trophy final involving over 3,500 Netballers this year • The Kukri Netball Home Nations event saw a strong English Universities squad take the title at the University of Exeter • The British Universities Netball team beat world-ranked Singapore 44-40 in a thrilling game in Glasgow. This fine performance was followed up by a win against the Northern Irish Senior squad and a draw against Northern Ireland U21s • The sports management group has been able to deliver a comprehensive, high volume Netball programme due to the continued support of Kukri. It has also worked in partnership with the four nations Netball governing bodies to continue to develop the sport at both grass-roots and elite level
ORIENTEERING • Oxford University staged the BUCS Championships in March 2009 with 150 competitors. University of Edinburgh won the overall title • The Championships incorporated a match against Combined Services who came fourth in the overall scoring • With funding from Sport England, British Orienteering have appointed Josh Jenner as its new Higher Education Development Officer POOL • The BUCS-UPC Eight-ball Pool Championships were held at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth. This brought the event into the premier league as Vauxhall is home to all the major English Pool Association events. Cuesport TV broadcast the event on the internet • For the first time, all elements of the event, including the Individual Championship, Team Championship/Trophy and Shield competitions, were held over one weekend and played out on thirty-six tournament standard tables. This resulted in 389 competitors at the starting gate for the Individual Championship and around 420 players in attendance in total • England won the BUCS Home Nations for the fourth year running RIFLE Small Bore • A new indoor short range championship was trialled in 2008 and modified to become part of the BUCS Championships in Sheffield in 2009. Eight teams and 24 individuals qualified for the finals event • The long range championship held in April continues to be popular with 14 universities and nearly 100 competitors Full Bore • Participation in the individual championships (run concurrently with the National Rifle Association Imperial Meeting) has grown with 25 universities represented compared to 18 last year. The top student competitors were ranked highly against the field of open international shots and he 2011 World Champs in Australia ROWING • Team GBR brought home a high medal tally from the EUSA Regatta in Poland including one Gold, four Silver and six Bronze, finishing in second place. Team GBR consisted of 97 athletes from 18 universities of which 44 of the rowers won medals • Participation at BUCS Rowing events has increased with 60 universities taking part and a notable increase in the number of beginner rowers • The first of the BUCS Rowing endorsed events was run by University of Bristol Boat Club. Endorsed events offer opportunities for students to row in an event for students, run by students, and more are planned for 2009/10 • BUCS and GB Rowing continued its support for a dedicated volunteer intern to develop and administer the University Rowing Programme through the appointment of James Lee • The BUCS Regatta returned to its England base in Nottingham and saw a record entry with over 4,000 rowers competing over the Bank holiday weekend in May. This also saw for the first time University of Cambridge entering the event and ended with them winning the blue ribbon event the Men’s 8’s with a crew, half of which had competed in the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race earlier in the year. Durham however retained their overall control of the sport winning the Victor Ludorum RUGBY FIVES • Dan Tristao, Oxford, won his second consecutive singles title, to set up the possibility of a ‘hat-trick’ at the 50th championship event in Sherborne in 2009 • Freshers Inigo Ackland and Alex Griffiths from Durham took the Doubles title at their first attempt. Ackland came straight from winning the National Schools Doubles in April to take the University title just eight months later • Past star university performers Ady Lee (Durham) and Dan Grant (UCL) - 2004-2006 - both represented Team England recently in the World One Wall Handball Championships, in Portland Oregon RUGBY LEAGUE • This year the Student Rugby League (SRL) launched the Gillette Super 6, designed to give member clubs the opportunity to compete at the highest level, against like-minded institutions, in an environment conducive to elite university competition • Due to the success of the inaugural season the SRL have expanded the 2009 -10 competition to become the Super 8 RUGBY UNION • Team participation grew in Rugby Union with 282 men’s and 100 women’s teams taking part this year • 115 universities received support from the Student Rugby Football Union as a result of completing development plans, allowing strategic improvement of the sport within each institution • England Students had an undefeated season, beating France Students, Irish Colleges and the Dutch senior national team 11
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