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University Sports Personality of Year to be named
The winner of the 2012 University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year Award will be announced at the prestigious Blues Awards ceremony next week. Five student athletes feature on the shortlist for the award – swimmers Jess Dickons, Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis, as well as badminton player Alex Huttunen...
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Liz takes step closer to Paralympic Games
Team Bath swimmer Liz Johnson has moved a step closer to her goal of competing at her third successive Paralympic Games. Liz, gold medallist in the SB6 100m breaststroke at the Beijing 2008 Games, just missed out on achieving a qualifying time for the Games at the British International Disability Swimming...
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Kris Gilchrist retires from competitive swimming
British 200m breaststroke record holder Kris Gilchrist has announced his retirement from competitive swimming. Gilchrist, a former world short course champion who has trained at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre (ITC) Bath at the Universtiy of Bath for the last 18 months, first competed internationally in 2006, winning bronze medals...
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The Life of an Elite Performer – workshop
Tuesday 20 March 2012 GB Swimmer Chris Cook will be delivering an evening workshop at 6.45pm entitled the life of an elite performer. Chris Cook was the first British male swimmer to break the 60 second barrier for the 100m breaststroke in 2008, represented GB at the Olympic Games in Beijing in...
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Trio selected to swim for Team GB at Olympic Games
Swimmers Michael Jamieson, Stacey Tadd and Andrew Willis are the first University of Bath-based athletes to be named in the Great Britain team to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The trio will all make their Olympic debuts at London 2012 and won their places on the team with their...
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Stacey achieves Olympic qualifying standard
Stacey Tadd became the third University of Bath-based swimmer to achieve an Olympic qualifying standard at the British Championships when she took gold in the 200m breaststroke at the 2012 Aquatics Centre last night. Tadd knew she had to set a personal best to achieve the Olympic qualifying standard – and...
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China to prepare for 2012 Games at the University of Bath
China is set to base 25 top swimmers at the University of Bath for three weeks before this summer’s Olympic Games in London. A delegation from the country’s sports and swimming federations visited the University this week to conclude the arrangements and to sign a contract with Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell,...
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Willis and Jamieson achieve Olympic qualifying standard
University of Bath student Andrew Willis clocked the fastest time for the 200m breaststroke in the world this year to achieve the London 2012 Olympic qualification standard. The 21-year-old Chemical Engineering student produced a stunning performance to dip more than two seconds under the qualification standard last night at the British...
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Gilchrist praises Bath
The British swimmer discusses his Olympic preparations. Kris Gilchrist believes the professional environment at his University of Bath training centre is the key to his Olympic preparations. The 28-year-old moved to the Intensive Training Centre (ITC) at Bath just over a year ago, believing that the decision was a...
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University are runners-up at BUCS swimming champs
The University of Bath swimming team finished runners-up at the overall British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Long Course Championships at the weekend. Calum Jarvis and Jenny Oldham both won one individual event each and were runners-up in another at the championships in Sheffield. Jarvis, a University of Bath Sports Performance student,...
