University of Edinburgh athletes return home from the BUCS Nationals with 48 medals. Over 120 University of Edinburgh athletes, competing across 7 sports, enjoyed a successful weekend at the BUCS Nationals that took place in Sheffield 16-17 February. With over 6000 student athletes competing, the BUCS Nationals brings together individual BUCS Championship events which take place across different venues across the city. Some of the many highlights from the weekend included: Jack Thorpe’s performance in the 100m Freestyle. Despite a low qualification, racing in lane 8, Jack stormed past the competition placing 1st and picking up a gold medal. Che Richards, qualifying for the final in his first jump in the prelims and then despite only doing one jump in the final (and then having to stop due to hamstring niggle) still managed to get gold in the Long Jump. Chloe Dickson achieving a silver medal in the Sabre despite it not being her normal fencing speciality Chloe Dickson and Katie Smith achieving a one-two result in the women’s Foil event The BUCS National are a key opportunity for individuals and teams to gain valuable BUCS points which are used in the end of year BUCS rankings. The 346 BUCS points Edinburgh gained at the event will be added to the total gained from other events and competitions throughout the year. Results UoE Medal Table Gold Silver Bronze Total Karate 3 3 6 12 Swimming 2 10 7 19 Fencing 1 2 0 3 Athletics 1 0 0 1 Judo 1 2 3 6 Climbing 0 3 0 3 Rifle 2 1 1 4 Total 10 21 17 48 Full list of placings in finals Karate Women’s Novice Kata 1st place: Lina Rietuma 3rd place: Molly Carlier Men’s Intermediate Kata 1st place: Nikolai Scheer Women’s Intermediate Kata 3rd place: Anna Johansson Men’s Senior Kata 3rd place: Antonio Wong Mixed Team Kata 3rd place Men’s Team Kumite 3rd place Men’s Novice Kumite (-70) 1st place: Hiro Onishi Women’s Novice Kumite (-63) 2nd place: Molly Carlier Women’s Novice Kumite (+63) 2nd place: Lina Rietuma Men’s Senior Kumite (-75) 3rd place: Antonio Wong Men’s Senior Kumite (-84) 2nd place: Cameron Duff Overall Team Results 1st place (60 points, leading Nottingham (46 points) and Coventry (44 points) Swimming W 200m Freestyle 2nd place: Kathryn Greenslade 3rd place: Monique Olivier M 200m Freestyle Finalist: Audai Hassouna W 50m Backstroke 2nd place: Lucy Hope Finalist: Anna Maine M 50m Backstroke Finalists: Scott Gibson and Kieran McGuckin W 50m Breaststroke Finalist: Annabel Guye-Johnson M 50m Breaststroke Finalist: Nicholas Quinn W 100m Butterfly 3rd place: Tain Bruce Finalist: Tara Haworth W 200m Backstroke 2nd place: Kathryn Greenslade Finalist: Anna Maine M 200m Backstroke Finalist: Scott Gibson W 50m Freestyle 2nd place: Rachel Masson Finalist: Anita M’Cartney M 50m Freestyle 1st place: Jack Thorpe Finalist: Kieran McGuckin W 200m Breaststroke Finalist: Annabel Guye-Johnson M 200m Breaststroke 3rd place: Nicholas Quinn Finalist: Andrew Macintosh W 400m Freestyle Team 2nd place (Tain Bruce, Kathryn Greenslade, Rachel Masson, Lucy Hope) M 400m Freestyle Team 2nd place (Ross Leslie, Kieran McGuckin, Audai Hassouna, Jack Thorpe) W 200m Butterfly Finalist: Tain Bruce M 200m Butterfly Finalist: Harry Lewis-Mitchell and Harley Beentjes W 100m Freestyle 1st place: Lucy Hope Finalist: Rachel Masson M 100m Freestyle 1st place: Jack Thorpe Finalist: Kieran McGuckin W 100m Breaststroke Finalist: Kara Hanlon and Annabel Guye-Johnson M 100m Breaststroke 3rd place: Nicholas Quinn Finalist: Andrew Macintosh W 200m IM Finalist: Tara Haworth M 200m IM Finalist: Thomas Tsiopanis W 50m Butterfly Finalist: Tain Bruce and Anita M’Cartney W 100m Backstroke 2nd place: Lucy Hope Finalist: Anna Maine M 100m Backstroke Finalist: Scott Gibson W 400m Medley Relay 2nd place (Lucy Hope, Kara Hanlon, Tain Bruce, Rachel Masson) M 400m Medley 3rd place (Scott Gibson, Nichlas Quinn, Harry Lewis-Mitchell, Jack Thorpe) Fencing Men’s Epee 4th Place: Alex Papadopoulos Women’s Sabre 2nd Place: Chloe Dickson Women’s Foil 1st Place: Chloe Dickson 2nd Place: Katie Smith Athletics Men’s Long Jump 1st Place: Che Richards (7.30m Prelims) 7.63m in final. 6th place: Calum Henderson (6.86m Prelims) 7.00m in final Women’s Triple Jump Alex Burns (11.41m Prelims) 11.62m in final, placing 7th Men’s High Jump Howard Bell 1.93m in final - 10th place Judo 2kyu – lower grade players/don’t earn BUCS Points, 1kyu higher grade players brown/black belts+ Men’s (1 Kyu and above) U66kg 2nd place: Peter Berrett Women’s (1 Kyu and above) U57kg 3rd place: Rae Anderson 4th place: Kirsty Marsh Women’s (2 Kyu and below) U52kg 1st place: Anna Steele Women’s (2 Kyu and below) U70kg 2nd place: Maria Shepherd Climbing Women’s Individuals 2nd place: Ajda Remskar Men’s Individuals 4th place: Felix Green Women’s Team 2nd place Men’s Team 2nd place Rifle Results coming soon Publication date 19 Feb, 2019
