Team Bath kick off a decisive last month of the BUCS Super Rugby league season with a live-streamed home match against Nottingham on Wednesday (6.30pm). The Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV go into the last three games of a hugely-competitive campaign in third place, just five points off top spot. Two of those matches are at the Team Bath Sports Training Village including this week’s showdown with a Nottingham side who have surprised many...
University of Bath students won 11 medals, including gold for sporting scholar Leah Crisp, and set a host of personal bests when they competed in athletics, badminton, climbing and swimming at the 2023 BUCS Nationals in Sheffield. Leading the way with 10 of the podium places was the Bath student swimming squad, who secured impressive fourth-placed finishes in the men’s, women’s and overall rankings after some superb performances at the BUCS Long Course Championships. Twenty...
A packed Team Bath Arena enjoyed a pulsating first home game of the 2023 Netball Super League season on Friday as the Blue & Gold held on for a single-goal success against Strathclyde Sirens. Watch the highlights - and listen to the noise - below and read the match report and reaction by clicking here. Don't forget to subscribe to our TeamBathTV YouTube channel to see more highlights and live-stream links throughout the season. And...
Team Bath Netball held off a fierce comeback from Strathclyde Sirens to record their first victory of the 2023 Super League season in dramatic style at a buzzing Team Bath Arena on Friday. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold fed off the energy of a near 1,500-strong crowd to produce some excellent netball right across the court and build an 11-goal lead early in the third quarter, only for Sirens to crank up the pressure...
Team Bath judoka won a host of medals when they contested the 2023 BUCS Judo Championships in Walsall over the weekend. The Kyu and above (brown belt and above) category saw Roxy Proctor beat Evie Halvey-Jacobs to women’s-63kg gold in an all-Bath final. The duo combined to win women’s team gold. Sports Performance alumna Chloe Robyns-Landricombe, who still trains at Team Bath and was representing Gloucestershire, took the -57kg title. In the men’s division there...
Tickets are on sale for the UIPM Modern Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships 2023, a Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifying event coming to Bath this summer. There are just six months to go until the best all-round athletes on the planet do battle in swimming, fencing, horse riding and laser run at the University of Bath, home to Pentathlon GB’s world-leading National Training Centre. [caption id="attachment_68561" align="alignright" width="292"] Olympic Champion Kate French gives some...
Asha Francis said she was happy to see more signs of progress from her Team Bath Netball squad during Monday’s Super League defeat at Celtic Dragons. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold produced some of their best netball of the season so far as they went into half-time in Cardiff with a 28-27 lead having trailed 18-10 after the first quarter. It remained a tight contest for much of the third period but Dragons were...
Team Bath Netball are back on the road for the second time in three days today (Monday) as they head to Cardiff’s House of Sport to face Celtic Dragons in another live-streamed match (7pm centre-pass). The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold go into Round 3 of the 2023 Netball Super League season on the back of a 72-42 defeat at London Pulse on Friday. Head Coach Asha Francis praised her team’s defensive display but said...
British Bobsleigh capped a record-breaking season as pilot Brad Hall and brakemen Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett became Great Britain’s first ever two-man Overall IBSF World Cup medallists. The University of Bath-based sliders didn’t finish outside the top five all season as they brought home bronze overall, their medal secured by a fourth-placed finish for Hall and Cackett in Sunday’s final race in Sigulda. Hall, Lawrence, Cackett and Arran Gulliver won Overall World Cup silver...
The University of Bath-based British Skeleton squad finished an outstanding IBSF World Cup season on a suitably high note by winning gold and silver in the men’s race at Sigulda, Latvia. World and European Champion Matt Weston stormed to his fifth gold medal in as many races during 2023 as he finished 0.36secs ahead of team-mate Marcus Wyatt. Craig Thompson went mighty close to completing a British clean sweep of the medals as he sat...
