Swimming
German record for Janne
TeamBath swimmer Janne Schaefer set a German record as she completed an impressive double at the German Winter Meeting in Hannover.
The 25-year-old University of Bath Psychology student set a German national record as she won the 50m breaststroke in 30.89 seconds at the event, which was the official German …
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Bircher selected for World Champs
TeamBath swimmer Alan Bircher has been selected to represent Great Britain in the open water events at next year’s FINA World Championships.
The 25-year-old endurance swimmer is one of three GB swimmers selected by British Swimming to contest the open water events at the Championships in Melbourne in March. …
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
A dozen records for University of Bath swimmers
University of Bath swimmers re-wrote the record books, setting a dozen new British Universities Short Course Championship benchmarks en route to finishing overall runners-up at the championships.
Darren Mew and Zoe Baker both set two championships records each as they won a brace of individual titles in Sheffield. Mew …
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Holiday swim schools for children
TeamBath Swim School is offering new one-week ‘learn to swim’ holiday programmes for children.
The one-week courses provide an opportunity for children aged four and above to improve their swimming skills by attending five half-hour lessons in the space of one week. Each session will be taken by experienced …
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Titles for Paton, Bartlett and Taite at French meeting
TeamBath swimmers were again in impressive form at one of the early meets of the season, with Sarah Paton, David Bartlett and Te Rina Taite all collecting titles at the Saint-Dizier international meet in France.
Australian swimmer Paton comfortably won the 200m butterfly final in 2:11.46, more than seven seconds …
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Swimmers make impressive start to season
TeamBath swimmers made a strong start to the season by collecting a string of victories competing in Italy at the weekend.
Darren Mew won the 100m breaststroke and was runner-up in the 50m breaststroke at the Bolzano Cup international invitation short course meet in Bolzano.
The TeamBath Olympian, who …
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Bircher strikes gold in Hong Kong
TeamBath endurance swimmer Alan Bircher struck gold in the FINA 10k World Cup Open Water Marathon in Hong Kong – winning the race by almost three minutes.
The 25-year-old went out hard from the start, hitting the front in the first 200m. After 1.5km, Bircher had established a 50m lead …
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Mew and Cozens selected for worlds and europeans
Two current Team Bath swimmers, Darren Mew and Chris Cozens, have been selected to represent Great Britain at the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in December and the World Championships in Melbourne in March.
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Bronze for TeamBath teenager
Teeanger Alex Warren is celebrating a bronze medal at the inaugural FINA World Youth Swimming Championships.
The 15–year–old was a member of the Great Britain quartet that came third in the 4×100m medley relay at the championships in Rio de Janeiro. Alex – the youngest member of the quartet …
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Top swimmers train in Bath for Open Water Worlds
Great Britain’s top long distance swimmers are training at the University of Bath in the build-up to the World Open Water Swimming Championships, which get underway in Italy next week.
Open water swimmers Alan Bircher and his German partner Stefanie Biller train at the University with TeamBath Swimming Club …
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
