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4 September 2009
Nick Dempsey and Bryony Shaw, the Be Number 1 windsurfers and Olympic medallists, will be chasing gold at the RS:X World Championships, which begin in Weymouth today.
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26 August 2009
Paul Goodison, the reigning Olympic champion, has won the Laser World Championships on St Margaret’s Bay in Nova Scotia to claim the one major title that had previously escaped his grasp.
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25 August 2009
The Laser World Championships is the one major title to have eluded Olympic gold medallist Paul Goodison. But the Be Number 1 athlete hit the front in style on St Margaret’s Bay in Nova Scotia today after a frustrated fleet took to the water again after two days of enforced inactivity, due to Hurricane Bill.
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24 August 2009
Be Number 1 sailor Paul Goodison was once again left kicking his heels in frustration after there was no racing at the Laser World Championships - the one major title that has hitherto eluded the 31-year-old Yorkshireman - on St Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia for the second day in a row.
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24 August 2009
The Be Number 1 pairing of Pippa Wilson and Saskia Clark lie in sixth place at the 470 World Championships in Denmark after two days of racing. |
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24 August 2009
After racing was cancelled yesterday on the fourth day of competition at the 2009 Laser World Championships in Nova Scotia due to the effects of Hurricane Bill, Be Number 1’ Paul Goodison will resume in third place overall today, when sailing gets underway again. |
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23 August 2009
Nic Asher and Elliot Willis, the Be Number 1 sailors and 2012 Olympic hopefuls, will aim to become only the third pairing to claim a third world title at the 470 World Championships, which begin in Denmark today. |
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8 August 2009
Jo Jackson, who claimed two individual silver medals and one relay bronze at the recent World Championships in Rome, rounded off a memorable season by claiming the world record in the 400m freestyle at the short-course (25m) British Gas Grand Prix in Leeds this evening. |
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20 August 2009
Be Number 1’s Paul Goodison will be seeking the one title that has hitherto eluded him in a stellar career when the 2009 Laser World Championships start today. |
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8 August 2009
Paul Goodison, the Be Number 1 sailor and Laser gold medallist at last year’s Beijing Olympics, claimed his fifth successive European Laser title in Landskrona, Sweden today. |
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8 August 2009
Mission accomplished. Nicky Hunt, the Be Number 1 compound archer, believed that a top-six finish in the fourth and final leg of this year’s World Cup tournament, which is taking place in Shanghai, would be good enough to secure her qualification for next month’s Grand Final in Copenhagen. |
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4 August 2009
Nicky Hunt, the Be Number 1 compound archer, could scarcely have hit more sparkling form in the run-up to the crucial fourth and final leg of this year’s World Cup tournament, which officially gets underway in Shanghai tomorrow. A top-six finish there should be good enough to secure her qualification for next month’s Grand Final in Copenhagen. |
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2 August 2009
David Davies, who was competing in his third final in eight days, finished in sixth place in the 1,500m freestyle final today on the last day of competition at the World Championship in Rome. |
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1 August 2009
Rachel Newey and Gareth Hains, the young Be Number 1 karate exponents, are celebrating after being selected to represent England at the World Junior and Cadet Karate Championships, which take place in Rabat, Morocco in November. |
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1 August 2009
Jo Jackson produced an outstanding swim to finish second in the women’s 800m freestyle final at the World Championships in Rome this evening and thereby claim her second individual silver medal of the meeting - and her third in total, following bronze in the team relay. |
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31 July 2009
Tom Parsons, the Be Number 1 high jumper, has talked of his disappointment after failing to obtain the ‘B’ standard height that would almost certainly have led to his selection for next month’s World Championships in Berlin. |
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31 July 2009
Jo Jackson followed up her bronze medal in the women’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay final at the World Championships in Rome last night by this morning qualifying for tomorrow’s 800m freestyle final in emphatic fashion. |
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29 July 2009
David Davies, the Be Number 1 swimmer who won Olympic bronze in 2004 in the 1,500m freestyle before claiming a silver medal in the 10km open-water event at the Beijing Games last year, broke his own British record in the men’s 800m freestyle final at the World Championships in Rome today, although it was only good enough for a fifth-place finish. |
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26 July 2009
Be Number 1’s Jo Jackson claimed Britain’s first medal in the swimming pool at the World Championships in Rome today when she finished second in the women’s 400m freestyle event. |
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23 July 2009
Tom Parsons goes into this Saturday’s high jump event at the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace knowing that only a season’s best leap will be good enough to give him a chance of securing qualification for next month’s World Championships in Berlin. |
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14 July 2009
Rachel Newey, the 16-year-old Be Number 1 karate exponent with a potentially glittering future, struck gold at the weekend when she won the Junior Female Kata category at the prestigious WKF World Youth Cup at Chalkida in Greece. |
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13 July 2009
After sensationally claiming his maiden World Cup gold medal in Bratislava the previous week, Olympic silver medallist canoeist Campbell Walsh had to make do with an eighth-place finish in the kayak singles event at the Augsburg World Cup meeting in Germany at the weekend. |
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13 July 2009
Tom Parsons, the high jumper who claimed a creditable eighth place in last year’s Olympic final in Beijing, could finish only third in the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships in Birmingham at the weekend and has still to qualify for next month’s World Championships in Berlin. |
5 July 2009
Campbell Walsh, the Nottingham-based canoeist and 2004 Olympic silver medallist, was in ecstatic mood after he won the kayak singles at the slalom World Cup event in Bratislava today to claim his maiden World Cup gold medal. |
28 June 2009
With next month’s World Championships in Rome fast approaching, Olympic medallists David Davies and Jo Jackson both excelled in the British Gas Scottish National Championships, which finished in Glasgow today after four days of fierce competition |
25 June 2009
Paul Goodison, the Be Number 1 sailor and Laser gold medallist at last year’s Beijing Olympics, sauntered to the most comfortable of victories yesterday in the Laser class in the sixth, and penultimate, round of the ISAF World Cup series in Kiel, Germany. |
25 June 2009
Nicky Hunt, the Be Number 1 compound archer, has expressed her relief after it was confirmed that she will be going to Shanghai to compete in the fourth and final leg of this year’s World Cup tournament. |
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24 June 2009
Bryony Shaw, the Be Number 1 windsurfer who won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics last year, had to settle for a medal of the same colour at the RS:X European Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday, although it could have been a whole lot worse for the 26-year-old in blisteringly hot conditions |
8 June 2009
Nicky Hunt, the Be Number 1 compound archer who created history last month by becoming the first British archer to claim victory in an individual World Cup event, maintained her chances of qualifying for September’s prestigious World Cup final in Copenhagen by finishing fifth in Antalya, Turkey in the third of the four regular-season legs. |
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2 June 2009
Nicky Hunt, the Be Number 1 compound archer, warmed up for the third leg of the World Cup series, which gets underway in Antalya, Turkey today, in the best possible fashion by beating Jamie Van Natta, the world No 1, to win the final of the Gold Cup in Newark, New Jersey. |
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1 June 2009
Campbell Walsh, who helped Great Britain to win a gold medal in the KI team event at the canoe slalom European Championships at Holme Pierrepoint, Nottingham on Saturday, could only finish fifth in the individual event yesterday. |
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1 June 2009
Paul Goodison, the Be Number 1 sailor and Laser gold medallist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, cruised to victory yesterday in the Laser class on the final day of competition in the fifth round of the ISAF World Cup series, which took place in Medemblik, Holland.
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26 May 2009
Nick Dempsey, the Be Number 1 athlete and 2004 Olympic windsurfing bronze medallist, has been hit by an untimely bout of illness that has seriously affected his training schedule in the build-up to the fifth round of the ISAF World Cup, which starts tomorrow in Medemblik, Holland |
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22 May 2009
Jason Gill, who has been confined to a wheelchair since falling 50 feet while rock-climbing in Gibraltar in 1997, has been steadily increasing his daily training as he prepares to hand-cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats as part of Be Number 1's LEJOG project. |
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21 May 2009
David Davies, the Be Number 1 swimmer who won a memorable silver medal in the inaugural men's Olympic 10km open-water discipline in Beijing last year, has opted to focus on pool events at the World Championships in Rome in July. |
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17 May 2009
Beth Tweddle, the Be Number 1 gymnast and double European champion, completed another memorable double at the Glasgow Grand Prix yesterday, when she won both the asymmetric bars and the floor events, the same disciplines that earned her double gold in Milan last month. |
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12 May 2009
Nicky Hunt, the Be Number 1 compound archer, has created history by winning the second leg of the World Cup series in Porec, Croatia to become the first British archer to claim victory in an individual World Cup event. |
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6 May 2009
If Robin Simpson fails in his attempt to break the world record for cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End and back again next month as part of Be Number 1’s LEJOG fund-raising project, it certainly won’t be for a lack of preparation. |
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8 May 2009
With less than three weeks to go before he embarks on his ambitious cross-country run from Land’s End to John O’Groats as part of the Be Number 1 LEJOG project, endurance athlete Kevin Carr admits to feeling a mixture of excitement and nerves about a feat that has never been attempted before, never mind completed. |
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8 April 2009
Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell, who finished fifth in the SKUD 18 sailing class at last year’s Paralympic Games in Beijing, have joined Be Number 1 and are already gunning for gold at the London 2012 Paralympics.
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5 April 2009
Beth Tweddle, the Be Number 1 gymnast, claimed the gold medal in both the floor exercises and the asymmetric bars finals at the European Championships in Milan yesterday to secure her first major titles since winning the bars discipline at the 2006 World Championships in Denmark.
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