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King's Sport Performance Athletes 2022/23

The King’s Sport Performance Programme provides elite student-athletes with a support network to help them perform to the highest level possible in their dual-career. Through strength & conditioning, nutrition, physiotherapy, lifestyle and wellbeing support we aim to offer students a world-class environment to improve athletically alongside their world-class education.

We strive to empower all our student-athletes to be the authors of their own stories, express themselves and share their triumphs with the wider university community.

Below are the profiles of the King's Sport Performance Athletes 2022/23.

Gold Performance Athletes

55 caps for Saracens Rugby Club.
Captaining Scotland u20 to their highest-ever world cup finish in 2017.
Won the European quarter-final with Saracens in Dublin.

Commonwealth Games 2022 semi-finalist
King’s College London Student Union Sportsperson of the Year 2021/22
Represented Malaysia at SEA GAMES 2019.

Silver Performance Athletes

4x National Champion in Slalom and Giant Slalom
2022 21st U18 Female in Slalom English Championships 2020
21st U18 female in the slalom at the I English Alpine Championships 2020

Qualification World Junior Championships
2022 Dubai Qualification World Cadet Championships
2019 Torun Ranking 2nd domestically at the End of the Junior 2021/2022 season

Representing the Great Britain women's senior team at the Windermere Cup 2022.
Gold in the Champ 4+ & Silver in the Champ 8+ (with a course record) at BUCS Regatta 2021.
Winner of Championship Pairs at Henley Women's Regatta 2021.

Sweden National Team 2022
Lacrosse Mens World Cup European Qualifying 1st team starting roster
Swedish Championship 2020

Attended the GB Junior Spain camp in December 2019.
Vice-Captain of the Headington School Oxford senior squad 2020-2021.
Bronze medal at National School’s Regatta in a quad 2021.

Represented Great Britain at the 2022 European Universities Games
Gold - British Teams National Championships (Seniors)
Gold - British University (BUCS) National Championships 2022 -60kg

World University Games for GB 2017, 2019.
EU nations for England 2019, 2022.
Home nations Tournament for England 2022.

U23 European championships
Won Gold in the J17 quads at Oarsport Silver in the Championships eights 2019.
Won gold in the Championships Coxless four, achieving course records in both at National Schools Regatta.

Premiership Debut (June 2022)
6 First Team appearances for Saracens
5 England U20 Appearances (2019-2020) 1 England u18 Cap (2019)

Senior international level (Great Britain)
Selection for GB senior team aged 16 2019
Silver medal Budapest U17 Team international 2019

2022 British Champion
2022 English Championship 2nd Place
2021 Malarcupen 2nd Place - Sweden

Bronze Performance Athletes

Represented Hockey Canada at the U17 World Hockey Championships (2014)
Ontario Hockey League Hardest Working Player of the Year (2015)
Captained the Hamilton Bulldogs (OHL - 2015-2017)

Women's Championship
Women's Super League Assistant Referee - Professional Game Match Official with the PGMOL
Level 3W - 2W - Women's Football

2020: 3rd place Regionals Ithaca NY3 times All-American and NCAA qualifier (2019-2021)
2019: 3rd place individual at U20 World Cup in Udine
2017: 7th place individual at U23 Italian Championships in Foggia

World Ultimate Club Championships 2022 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Spirit captain with Iceni Ultimate- UK Nationals 2021,
2022 — with Iceni Ultimate- Madrid Invitational 2021

2022 ETU Standard Distance Duathlon European Championship Qualifiers.
British Standard Distance Championships: 1st in Age group – 17th Women Overall.
Goodwood Standard duathlon – 1st women overall

National Super League: starting player for semi-pro club IBB Polonia London - 5th place 2021/22.
London Premier League: starting player 2018/22.

Newport RFC: Welsh Principality Premiership
Cardiff University 1st XV: BUCS super rugby
Welsh Universities Sevens

27th FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Age Group Competition in Japan (Toyko).
3rd in the Italy Aere Trampoline Cup in 2018.
Hong Kong Team:Trampoline Cup 2018 in Brescia (ITA) - 3rd Place

2022 WORLD SPRINT Duathlon champion
2022 GB Standard distance National champion
2022 World Standard Duathlon championships - 3rd

World Ultimate Club Championships 2022 (Ohio, USA

6-fold Austrian Running champion
European Championship participant - rank 34 of 62.

Represent Kazakhstan in the Junior Shotgun World Cup & ISSF Junior World Championship, Peru.
Kazakhstan 2021 and the ISSF Junior World Championship

World ranking in top 200 for mixed doubles and women's doubles (badminton world federation junior player points).
226 in the world BWF open age group 2016Top 5 for women's doubles and mixed national junior ranking U15, U17, U19 from ~2013-2017
Winner of u15 and u17 open (i.e. national) tournaments 2014/2015/2016

Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Women’s Regatta

British champs pole vault finalist 2022.
5th at English Championships 2022.
6th at British champs indoors and outdoors 2019 as a U23 athlete.

2022 Commonwealth Fencing Championship team bronze medal with Team Malaysia
Under 17 South East Asian fencing championships team gold
South East Asian University fencing championship individual gold

Dina Asher-Smith, Olympic sprinter and King's alumna

19 September 2019