University of Bath-based Sophie Kamlish and Polly Maton won silver and bronze respectively at the IPC World Para Athletics European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Double Paralympian Kamlish teamed up with Zac Shaw, Sophie Hahn and Nathan Maguire to claim a superb second spot behind Russia in a thrilling Universal 4x100m mixed relay final in 48.20. Former World Champion Kamlish, who trains at the Team Bath Sports Training Village and is coached by Rob Ellchuk, also...
University of Bath-based Michael Taylor won a superb silver in Leeds’ Roundhay Park on Saturday during the first-ever World Triathlon Para Series event to take place on British soil. Taylor, coached by Rhys Davey at the British Triathlon Bath National Performance Centre, matched his performance in Yokahama, Japan last month as he finished runner-up to 2019 world champion Alexis Hanquinquant of France in the PTS4 race. It was one of five medals won by British...
With the Tokyo Olympic Games now just 50 days away, many sports – including the prolific medal-winning GB modern pentathlon team based at the University of Bath – will be planning or have considered high altitude or hypoxic training as part of their preparation. Why? And does it work for all types of sport and everyone? Pentathlon GB Performance Director Jan Bartu, is an advocate and says: "Pentathlon GB Performance has been training at altitude...
With 50 days to go until the Tokyo Olympic Games begin, swimmers based at the University of Bath will have another chance to hone their race preparations as the British Swimming Glasgow Meet gets under way in Scotland. More than 300 athletes will be competing at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre over the next four days, the largest and most inclusive event run by British Swimming and its partners since the return to the competition...
Hurdler Eilidh Doyle, who won Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medals while training at the University of Bath, has announced her retirement from competitive athletics after an outstanding career. Doyle is Scotland’s most decorated athlete of all time having won 19 major championship medals, the vast majority of them – including a 4x400m relay bronze for Team GB at Rio 2016 – secured while based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village between 2011 and...
Influential attacker Rachel Shaw has been named as Team Bath Netball’s Rengen Player of the Month for May. The wing-attack has been a key figure for the Blue & Gold on and off the court for the past few years and her consistently excellent performances during May were capped with a first player of the match award of the season following Saturday's impressive win against Strathclyde Sirens. After the match, Team Bath Superleague Head Coach Anna Stembridge...
