World, European and Commonwealth champions were crowned, more than 100 international medals were won and new elite training centres were opened during another unforgettable year of sport at the University of Bath. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games saw 37 sportspeople who train, study or studied at the University of Bath – named as the University of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 – compete across nine different sports...
Steve Borthwick, a University of Bath alumnus and Team Bath Hall of Fame for Sport inductee, has been appointed as the new England Rugby men’s head coach. Borthwick combined a top-class playing career – in which he captained England, Bath Rugby and Saracens – with studying Politics & Economics at the University, graduating in 2003. He has also had a successful coaching career, leading Leicester Tigers to the Premiership Rugby title earlier this year. Before...
Tom Dean completed his collection of individual medals from international competitions and Anna Hopkin secured her first as University of Bath students past and present finished 2022 on the podium at the FINA World Short-Course Swimming Championships. Ben Proud, of the University’s swimming club, also went mighty close to defending his 50m freestyle title during an exciting weekend of racing in Melbourne, Australia. Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholar Dean, coached by David McNulty at the Team...
It was a double gold weekend for the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association athletes who train at the University of Bath as they topped the podium twice at the IBSF World Cup at Lake Placid in the United States. Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett (pictured top) ended the calendar year in stunning fashion as they claimed only Great Britain’s second four-man World Cup gold since official IBSF records began. Sitting third...
Team Bath will go into the Christmas break sitting second in the BUCS Super Rugby table after recording a bonus-point 35-22 victory over Leeds Beckett in bitterly-cold conditions at Shaftesbury Park, home of Bristol club Dings Crusaders. The men’s 1st XV, sponsored by Bath Building Society, scored five well-worked backs tries through Alfie Garside, Alex Clayton, Luca Mignot, Tom Carr-Smith and Sam Harris, the latter kicking all the conversions, as Team Bath recorded their eighth...
Team Bath badminton players produced some outstanding performances when they competed at the English National Championships in Milton Keynes over the weekend. Katie Scott (pictured), who studies Psychology and is coached by Peter Bush at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, reached the last 16 of the women’s singles where she came up against Abigail Holden, the number-one ranked player in England. Team Bath Dual Career student-athlete Scott produced an incredible effort and performed against all expectations, only just...
Team Bath Netball Super League trio Imogen Allison, Tash Pavelin and Jayda Pechova will be on international duty in January after England today named three Vitality Roses squads for matches at the start of a World Cup year. Allison is named in a 16-strong squad for the Roses’ three-match series against Commonwealth Games silver-medallists Jamaica, with fixtures being played at the AO Arena in Manchester (11th January) and London’s Copper Box Arena (14th and 15th...
Ben Jones, Giles Hussey and Holly Hutchinson continued a proud tradition of Team Bath Tennis players helping Great Britain enjoy medal success at the world’s biggest student tennis team tournament. The trio were part of a six-strong GB squad that finished runners-up to the United States at the Master’U BNP Paribas tournament in Honfleur, France – the first time it had been contested since University of Bath graduate Jones helped Britain also win silver at...
A new dedicated training facility for the world-leading Great Britain wheelchair fencing squad has today been officially opened at the University of Bath, along with a rehabilitation studio for athletes from other Olympic and Paralympic sports. World Champions and Tokyo 2020 medallists Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver, fresh from winning four gold medals apiece at the 2022 European Championships, treated guests from the University, the English Institute of Sport (EIS), British Fencing, UK Sport and...
There were a host of personal bests and medals, including gold for Jana Spinner and Josh Gammon, when University of Bath student swimmers impressed at the Swim England National Winter Championships 2022. Natural Sciences student Spinner secured two titles, touching the wall first in both the 100m backstroke (1:08.49) and 100m individual medley (1:01.50). She was also runner-up in the 50m breaststroke (31.63). [caption id="attachment_68254" align="alignright" width="292"] Jana Spinner (centre) won two gold medals. PICTURES:...
