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Okay I’m no Ranulph Fiennes or Ironman, but personally speaking, taking on the 3 Peaks Challenge when you have a little one under 1 year of age is not for the faint hearted, not least because the amount of training time you get in between nappy changing and feeding is not a lot!

University of Birmingham’s Fencing Club came away from the BUSA Individual Championships with the largest medal tally of any competing university last weekend.

On Friday 16th November a team of 9 University staff, made their way slowly up the M6 to the Lakes to tackle the first of the Three Peaks and start training in earnest. The aim, to spend a weekend team building and to tackle Scafell Pike, at 978m the highest mountain in England

The fifth round of the Premier Squash League saw the University Sport Birmingham UNITE team come away with their third win of the season, beating Nottingham.

The University of Birmingham Athletics Club were out in force at the weekend at the European Cross Country trials with two members earning selection for the Great Britain squad.

One of the world’s most successful middle distance runners of all time was on campus on Monday to help promote an event taking place here next year.

University Sport Birmingham Athletics Club contined their successful season when they held the 7th Annual RLF Campus Relays on Saturday, and clearly dominated proceedings.

Premier Squash League player Mohammed El Shorbagy helped seal another win for the University Sport Birmingham UNITE team when he beat a player ranked 90 places higher than him.

The 3rd annual xpLosION American Football event at the University of Birmingham went off with a bang on November 10th, with a storming 49-0 win for the Birmingham Lions over the Warwick Wolves.

The nation can this week toast one sporting triumph as a Birmingham graduate and triathlete returns to her former university in a blaze of glory as Britain's first ever Ironman World Champion.