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NEWS UWE’s Elite Athletes triumph Jessica Davies Luke Dunbar Elite Cyclist Athlete, Luke Dunbar took home the silver medal for the second consecutive year at the recent British University Hill Climb Championships in Derbyshire. In a tense race to the finish line, Luke was knocked from gold place by a mere two second margin, finishing second out of 134 cyclists, ahead of Henry King from Leeds University, in an impressive performance. The annual one mile race took place at Curbar Gap in the Peak District providing a spectacular backdrop for the spectators, but a 1:7 climb for the riders. Luke, a Criminology and Politics student said, “Like any competitive athlete I was disappointed to miss out on the win by a small margin at the time. However on reflection, I am proud I have managed to repay UWE for their support with a silver medal two years running.” Sports performance manager Richard Bennett added, “This is a great achievement for Luke – he improved his time from last year by three seconds, so we can’t ask for more than that.” Luke Dunbar Jessica Davies The University has made waves in high performance sport with 19 year old student, Jessica Davies recently returning from the Commonwealth fencing championships in Australia with a bronze medal. Welsh-born Jessica was competing in the Women’s Sabre Individual for Wales and combined with Marc Burkhalter in Men’s Individual Epée team to give Wales a fifth place finish in the overall medal table. The second year Criminology student said, “It was an amazing experience and I don't think I could have achieved the result without the support from my fellow team mates”. Jessica commented that she competed in the championships four years ago when it was held in Belfast, but only achieved a last 32 result. Thanks to support from UWE’s high performance team her performances have improved rapidly during her first two years at UWE. Sports performance manager Richard Bennett added, “When Jess arrived at UWE she was a very quiet and shy athlete with limited experience of training, but thanks to the expertise of Steve Lock and his conditioning team, along with the rest of our support staff we have really built on Jess’ natural ability and pushed her performances forward.” Next up for Jessica are the Madrid U20 international; Welsh Open and Poland U20 International. Jessica will aim to better her Commonwealth bronze performance when she represents UWE at the British Universities Fencing Championship taking place at the University of Gloucestershire at the end of November. The event brings together the very best young fencers from across the UK and Jessica will be joined by fellow UWE fencers Nathaniel Lewis and Warren Shillingford 18
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