Team Bath Synchro Club’s Ilaria Brandimarte helped Great Britain win a superb silver medal at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in Paris. Brandimarte and team-mates Kate Shortman, Isabelle Thorpe, Daniella Lloyd, Victoria Usher, Daisy Rushton, Cerys Hughes, Greta Hampson, Millicent Costello and Cerys Larsen scored 81.6667 points to finish runners-up to Brazil in the free combination final. Great Britain also finished fifth overall in the team free final after scoring 80.3333. It was the...
British Bobsleigh are celebrating their joint best two-man World Championship result for 53 years after Brad Hall and Nick Gleeson finished equal fourth in Canada on Sunday. Former decathlete Hall and serving Paratrooper Gleeson just missed a first British medal since Olympic Champions Tony Nash and Robin Dixon won bronze in Cortina in 1966. They instead equalled the achievement of recently retired Bruce Tasker and current four-man team-mate Joel Fearon, who themselves finished fourth in...
Francesca Summers, Tom Toolis and University of Bath student Myles Pillage all recorded personal best finishes at a World Cup as Pentathlon GB made an encouraging start to the 2019 season in Cairo, Egypt. Former World Junior Champion Summers won 20 of her 35 fencing bouts and produced a flawless ride to sit sixth going into the combined run-shoot, a position she maintained to finish on the wider podium in the women’s final. Charlie Follett,...
Olympic bronze medallist Laura Deas will be aiming for her first World Championship medal this week after being named in a six-strong British Skeleton squad for the season’s showpiece in Canada. Deas goes into the event – taking place in Whistler on March 7&8 – on the back of a fantastic third-placed finish in the last World Cup of the season in Calgary last weekend. She is joined in the women’s team by University of...
Team Bath Netball produced tremendous performances right across the court to overcome Manchester Thunder in a fantastic game of Vitality Superleague netball on another dramatic evening at the Team Bath Arena. There was little to choose between the teams throughout a fiercely-contested match that saw Team Bath edge into a five-goal lead at the end of the first quarter before Thunder clawed their way back into the game. The tension was rising as the teams...
Team Bath won two honours, including the prestigious Platinum Award for best category winner overall, on a fantastic night at the 2019 Bath Life Awards. The annual celebration of businesses and organisations in Bath and the contribution they make to the local community saw Team Bath, whose world-class University of Bath Sports Training Village facilities receive more than 1.6million visits each year, win the hotly-contested Health & Wellbeing category. The judging panel then selected Team...
