Student success Perri wins three medals Second year student Perri Shakes-Drayton took another huge step towards Olympic glory when she won two bronze medals at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in July, breaking her personal best in the 400m hurdles as well as in the GB 4x400m relay. She also helped Team GB to finish second in the European Team Championships in Norway in June 2010, by securing a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay. Perri said: “I’m going to continue what I’ve been doing and put in the hard work over the winter. I aim to make the final of the World Championships [in Daegu, South Korea] next year, but I’m not planning for London 2012 just yet – let’s get 2011 out of the way first!”
Tom Aggar picks up more awards Current Sport Sciences student, Sports Scholar and unbeaten Paralympic champion Tom Aggar won gold at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand in November 2010. Tom dominated the Paralympic-class single scull final to win by a sizeable margin of 13 seconds. The medal is Tom’s fourth international title in a row. He said: “It feels fantastic. All the hard work has paid off. The conditions were tricky out there but it was great for me to come here and get the gold medal I wanted, and great for the team.” Tom was also named the 2010 World Rowing Adaptive Crew of the Year at the World Rowing Awards in January.
Chris Blunt awarded ECB scholarship MSc Sport Sciences student Christ Blunt has been awarded a £2,000 scholarship from the England and Wales Cricket Board to conduct his dissertation on ‘A review of the effectiveness of performance analysis in cricket’. Chris will be supervised by Brunel’s Dr Robin Jackson (Brunel University) and Michael Bourne (National Lead for Performance Analysis). His work will review the Performance Analysis service of the National Cricket Performance Centre at Loughborough University. As part of the Scholarship, Chris will also have the opportunity to gain supervised applied experience within the ECB’s Performance Analysis Department. His proposal focused on assessing performance analysis provision from the service provider and end-user’s perspective, and on looking at the potential for innovation with respect to research, talent development and elite squads.
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