Team Bath Netball gave the returning fans plenty to cheer over the Bank Holiday Weekend as they stretched their Vitality Superleague winning run to nine matches with victories over Severn Stars and Strathclyde Sirens. Spectators at London’s Copper Box Arena – back in the stands at top-flight netball matches in the UK for the first time since March 2020 – saw the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold record a 45-32 success against Stars in Friday’s...
Team Bath judoka Ben Fletcher says not having “time to dwell on things” has helped him stay laser-focussed on recovery as he bids to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games just five months after breaking his leg. Fletcher suffered the injury while representing Ireland at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam in February and underwent surgery a couple of days back in London later to pin the break. Remarkably he was back on his feet later...
University of Bath-based swimmers brought home a terrific 25 medals from the 2021 LEN European Championships in Budapest as they showed fantastic form in the last major competition before the Tokyo Olympic Games. Leading the way with six medals apiece – the most of any swimmers competing at the Championships – were British Swimming National Centre Bath trio Freya Anderson, Tom Dean and James Guy, who are all coached by David McNulty in the London...
There were more relay medals for James Guy, Tom Dean and Matt Richards plus a first individual podium place for Freya Anderson as University of Bath-based swimmers continue to excel at the LEN European Championships in Budapest. British Swimming National Centre Bath star Guy, coached by David McNulty at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, was part of a mixed 4x100m medley relay quartet that obliterated the European record on Thursday night to win gold...
University of Bath-based Freya Anderson, Tom Dean and James Guy made it two medals in as many days as they helped GB to mixed 4x200m freestyle relay gold at the 2021 LEN European Swimming Championships in Budapest. Fresh from having booked his place in Wednesday’s 100m freestyle final, Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholar Dean led off the British quartet in the event, a relatively new addition to the international schedule, and handed over in first place....
She is the reigning Commonwealth champion, 11-time continental gold-medallist and an official Sports Ambassador for her native Saint Lucia but Levern Spencer hopes moving to Bath will help her secure one thing missing from her incredible CV – an Olympic medal. The high jumper, who will start her season at the first Diamond League competition of 2021 in Gateshead on Sunday (May 23), is set to compete at her fourth Olympic Games in Tokyo this...
University of Bath-based swimmers Freya Anderson, Tom Dean, James Guy and Matt Richards helped British Swimming make a record-breaking start to the 2021 LEN European Championships in Budapest on Monday. Anderson, coached by David McNulty at the British Swimming National Centre Bath, swam a stunning 52.79 anchor leg to hold off a strong challenge from the Dutch team and secure a first-ever European gold for GB in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay in a British...
University of Bath-based Michael Taylor bolstered his bid for a place at this summer’s Tokyo Paralympic Games by winning a super silver medal at the 2021 World Triathlon Para Series event in Yokohama, Japan on Saturday. Taylor, who is coached by Rhys Davey at the British Triathlon Bath National Performance Centre, was competing on the World Para Triathlon Series stage for just the second time having made his debut 15 months ago but looked in...
The nine University of Bath-based swimmers selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games will have chance to test themselves against international opposition this week as they represent Britain at the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The continental competition also offers swimmers like Holly Hibbott and Emily Large another opportunity to set the Tokyo qualification standard after they narrowly missed out at the British Swimming Selection Trials in April. Kieran Bird, who took nearly five seconds off...
Kate French struck gold and there was a first senior international medal for fellow University of Bath alumni Tom Toolis as Pentathlon GB’s excellent season continued at the 2021 UIPM World Cup Final in Hungary. In-form French added to the gold and silver medals she had won on her previous World Cup outings this year with another outstanding victory, impressively overhauling a 25-second deficit going into the decisive run-shoot to secure the first World Cup...
