At EISS, it was a jam packed day at badminton with the introduction of the seeded players onto the court as the event hits crunch time in the race for the medals on Sunday.
Across the hall, the 3000m, 400m, 200m and Relay heats got underway before the 800m semi finals took centre stage. The only medal event saw Nottingham’s Ali Mustafa Al Mubarak throw 17.35 to take the Men’s Shot Put gold in his first BUCS.
During the day, we remembered one of our own. Malcolm Rogers was a member of the BUCS officiating team delivering a number of events in our athletics programme. This included the test event for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. BUCS colleagues past and present are incredibly grateful for the contribution Malcolm made to the BUCS programme, he will be greatly missed.
Over at Ponds Forge, the Karate Championships began. The Novice Kata category victories went to Middlesex's Perwinne Carlos (Women's) and Tom Stevens (Men's). Over in the Intermediate Kata Nottingham duo Elizabeth Howlett (Women's) and Mark Vitug (Men's) were victorious.
Glory in the Open Kata went to Aberdeen's Faye Dark as Nottingham bested their city rival Nottingham Trent to win Open Team Kata gold.
The records continued to tumble in the pool. Nine BUCS records were broken, including two from Bruce Dee. The Manchester Met athlete stopped the clock at 33.98 and 1:25.24 in the S6 50m Butterfly and SB6 100m Breaststroke.
At Canon Medical Arena, another two champions were crowned. It was a third gold at the 2026 competition for Nottingham as Louis Taiwo won the Mixed Epee. The Women's Sabre saw last year's champion Lexie Craze (Durham) return to the final, only to be beaten by Bath's Ezgi Kocer to the gold.
To cap off day two, climbing had 12 finalists battling it out for individual and team medals. Newcastle's Louise Flockhart was crowned Women's champion, while Liverpool's Nathan Whaley took the Men's gold. In the team events it was Sheffield who completed a double with Men's and Women's gold for the second year running.
It's been an incredible weekend of higher education sport so far and we've got so many more thrills to come on the third and final day.
Action from the athletics, swimming, fencing finals and karate fiinals will be live on YouTube.
