Jacob Peters and Freya Anderson won double gold and there were further titles for Tom Dean, Joshua Gammon and Luke Turley as University of Bath-based athletes claimed a host of medals at the 2023 British Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Peters followed up his 100m butterfly one-two with British Swimming Performance Centre Bath training partner James Guy by recording the fastest time in the world this year in Sunday’s stacked 50m butterfly final. Going in lane...
Team Bath Netball were unable to build on a good first-quarter lead as Severn Stars hit back to complete a 2023 Super League double over their West Country rivals. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold led 17-11 after the first 15 minutes at the Team Bath Arena on Easter Saturday but Stars, marshalled by experienced player-coach Jo Trip, tightened up defensively and turned the game on its head by half-time. Jayda Pechova, named as Team...
Team Bath’s hopes of reaching the BUCS Rugby Championship final ended in heartbreak as double-chasing Loughborough scored four minutes from time to grab a narrow 30-27 win. A superb semi-final saw the Bath Building Society-sponsored Team Bath men’s 1st XV battle back brilliantly from 13-3 down to lead 27-20 early in the second half. Two yellow cards reduced the visitors to 13 men but they fought fiercely to hold BUCS Super Rugby champions Loughborough at...
A place in the BUCS Rugby Championship final is the prize on offer when Team Bath head to old rivals Loughborough on Wednesday (7pm kick-off, watch live on BUCS TV). It will be a fourth semi-final of the BUCS Super Rugby era for the Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV and they are bidding to make the next step for the first time after narrowly missing out in 2017, 2018 and 2019. They face a...
The Scotland Women’s National Team (SWNT) are training at the University of Bath this week ahead of their upcoming international football friendlies against Australia and Costa Rica. The 24-player squad are training on the football pitches during their four-day visit to the Team Bath Sports Training Village, as well doing strength and conditioning work in the Team Bath Gym and recovery in the 50m swimming pool and hydro pool. Among the players are Real Madrid’s...
Nearly 50 swimmers who train at the University of Bath will be in action when the British Swimming Championships 2023 take place at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield from 4-9 April. Among the British Swimming Performance Centre Bath contingent looking to secure qualification for this summer’s World Aquatics Championships in Japan are Olympic Champions Tom Dean, James Guy and Freya Anderson, and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Brodie Williams. The University’s student swimming club,...
It’s been an impressive month on the international circuit for Team Bath judoka, with three members of the high-performance squad recording their best results. University of Bath graduate Chloe Robyns-Landricombe got the ball rolling with a brilliant bronze at the Tunisia African Open in the -52kg weight category. She secured her first Continental Open medal by defeating Chile’s Judith Gonzalez by Ippon in the fourth minute of golden score. The following week saw Sport and...
Team Bath stormed to victory in the Netball Super League with a 61-54 win over Leeds Rhinos in the second of five successive matches at the Team Bath Arena. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold outfit recovered from a seven-goal deficit during the first quarter to dominate the next 15 minutes and head into half-time 31-25 up. A hectic final quarter kept Team Bath on their toes but the re-introduction of Sophie Kelly in goal...
Team Bath showed tremendous character to battle through a fiercely-contested BUCS Rugby Championship quarter-final against local rivals Hartpury on a wet and windy night at the Sports Training Village. The Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV were trailing for much of the night against the three-times knockout champions but dug deep to come away with a 21-16 win thanks to tries from Jasper Spandler, Alfie Garside and Austin Emens, all converted by Luca Mignot. The...
Team Bath have named a strong match-day squad for tonight’s BUCS Rugby Championship quarter-final with local rivals Hartpury at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (6.30pm kick-off, free to watch). England U20 Six Nations squad members Josh Dingley and Mackenzie Graham return to the starting XV along with prop Ollie Tack, flanker Tom Cowan, centre Sam Kennaugh and full-back Alex Clayton, while France 7s international Luca Mignot switches to fly-half. Louie Hennessey, fresh from representing...
