When it comes to Olympians inspiring the next generation, Team GB rugby 7s player Grace Crompton is very much walking the walking – or sprinting the sprint in her case. Crompton, who studied Sports Management and Coaching at the University of Bath, is putting the knowledge she gained from her degree to good use by working with young sportspeople on the Team Bath Futures talent development programme. Renowned for her lightning pace on the rugby...
University of Bath-based Kerenza Bryson warmed up for her Olympics debut in fine style as she struck gold for Pentathlon GB at the 2024 European Senior Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She also won women’s team silver with individual bronze-medalist Emma Whitaker and Politics & International Relations student Alex Bousfield, who had joined forces earlier in the week to win a brilliant gold in the women’s relay. Bryson, one of four Bath-based modern pentathletes selected to...
University of Bath graduate Tim Nurse says he “will do everything I can to help” Team GB win men’s hockey gold after being named as a travelling reserve for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Nurse, who was supported by a King Scholarship while studying Sports Performance at the University from 2017 to 2021, is part of the wider 18 travelling to the Stade Yves-du-Manoir for this summer’s championships. While he is disappointed not to be...
Three international swimmers who have successfully combined training and studying at the University of Bath are celebrating after qualifying to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Chemical Engineering student Henrique Mascarenhas will represent Angola in the 100m freestyle, while Ridhwan Mohamed – who studies Automotive Engineering with Business Management – will contest the 400m freestyle for Kenya on the opening day of competition in the Paris La Defense Arena. Tobi Sijuade, who continues to...
Two more former University of Bath Sporting Scholars, Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz and Alastair Chalmers, have been selected to represent Mexico and Team GB respectively at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a second Games for judoka Awiti-Alcaraz, who competed for Mexico at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She earned automatic qualification for Paris by ranking in the world’s top 20 in the women’s -63kg category after an impressive two years on the international...
Graduating from the University of Bath and making her Olympics debut – it is going to be quite the summer for sporting scholar Leah Crisp. The marathon swimmer will attend Bath Abbey on Tuesday 16th July for her official graduation ceremony in Economics and Mathematics before returning to the University’s Sports Training Village to continue her final preparations for the Paris Games. Crisp will contest the women’s 10km race on Thursday 8th August (6.30am BST),...
University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers won five medals, three of them gold, when they visited Poland for the last IWASF World Cup competition before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. [caption id="attachment_70653" align="alignright" width="292"] Dimitri Coutya won gold and two bronze in Warsaw. PICTURES: Archive IKS-AWF, Adrian Stykowski[/caption] Piers Gilliver (pictured top), whose aim in Paris is to win gold in both the Category A epee and sabre, did just that in Warsaw as he defeated...
Team Bath Netball are delighted to confirm that it has been granted a licence to deliver the southwest performance pathway on behalf of England Netball. Following the outcome of the NSL 2.0 tender, where Team Bath was not successful in securing a licence for the newly-launched Netball Super League from 2025, England Netball presented an opportunity in which Team Bath could still retain a licence to deliver the performance pathway in the southwest and compete...
Rhino will supply performance rugby squads at the University of Bath with their elite-level Vortex Pro match ball as part of a new partnership that will also see them supply contact equipment to the 2024 BUCS Super Rugby semi-finalists. The new collaboration with the University of Bath Rugby Student Performance Sport programme means the university’s rugby teams will have access to state-of-the-art training gear including scrum machines, balls and other essential equipment. Aaron James, Head...
Defending champion Piers Gilliver and fellow Paralympic Games medallists Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson are among the University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers named in the ParalympicsGB squad for Paris 2024. Joining them in the spectacular surroundings of the Grand Palais this September will be four-time Paralympian Gemma Collis, who does some of her training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) and receives sport-science support from the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) team at the...