News Archive, Month: September 2024

Oliver Lam-Watson, Piers Gilliver and Dimitri Coutya celebrate after winning wheelchair fencing men's team foil silver at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. CREDIT: imagecomms

Wheelchair fencers Oliver Lam-Watson, Piers Gilliver and Dimitri Coutya team up to win foil silver for second successive Games in Paris

05 September 2024

The medal rush continued for Britain’s wheelchair fencers in the Grand Palais on Thursday as Dimitri Coutya, Piers Gilliver and Oliver Lam-Watson won men’s team foil silver. It was a repeat of the trio’s achievement in Tokyo, with China – featuring three individual foil medallists – once again proving just too strong in the final The Bath-based Brits put up a fantastic fight, though, and led 20-15 after the first four rounds. China turned things...

Wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya celebrates after winning Category B foil gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. CREDIT: imagecomms

Foil flourish ensures wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya completes his title collection after glorious golden day in Paris

04 September 2024

Dimitri Coutya secured the only wheelchair fencing title missing from his stellar CV as he magnificently won Category B foil Paralympic gold in Paris on Wednesday. The multiple World and European Champion, who won one silver and three bronze medals in Tokyo three years ago, was determined to end his wait for the biggest prize of all and produced three outstanding performances to fulfil his ambition. Bath-based Coutya, as top seed, was given a bye...

(From left) Former Team Bath Netball players Sophie Kelly. Tash Pavelin, Jayda Pechova and Bethan Dyke have secured new clubs for the 2025 Netball Super League season

New challenge for sporting scholars as former Team Bath Netball quartet secure Super League contracts for 2025 season relaunch

04 September 2024

University of Bath sporting scholars Jayda Pechova and Sophie Kelly will continue their Netball Super League journeys with Nottingham Forest and London Pulse respectively, it has been confirmed today. Alumna Tash Pavelin will join fellow Vitality Roses defender Pechova at the newly-launched Forest franchise for the 2025 campaign, while Bethan Dyke has rejoined her hometown club Cardiff Dragons. All four were key members of the Team Bath Netball squad for the 2024 Super League season,...

Wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver (right) in the final of the Category A sabre competition at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, where he won silver. CREDIT: imagecomms

Sabre silver takes Piers Gilliver’s career medal tally to five at start of busy week of wheelchair fencing in Grand Palais

04 September 2024

Wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver won the fifth medal of his glittering Paralympics career to date when he secured Category A sabre silver in the stunning surroundings of the Grand Palais on Tuesday. It was a first Paralympic medal with the weapon for Gilliver - whose previous medals in Rio and Tokyo had come in the epee individual, and epee and foil team events - and was the perfect start to his campaign for four podium...

The third annual Make a Move! event, organised by The Grand Appeal, took place at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on Saturday 31st August 2024. CREDIT: Team Bath/Charlotte Clark

Third Make a Move! is biggest yet as young people under care of Bristol Children’s Hospital enjoy day of sporting fun at Team Bath

03 September 2024

The third annual Make a Move! event proved to be the biggest and best yet as more than 100 young people under the care of Bristol Children’s Hospital enjoyed a host of accessible sports and fun activities. The Team Bath Sports Training Village was once again buzzing as youngsters and their families had a go at archery, athletics, badminton, ball sports, boxing, judo, kin-ball, mini golf, rowing, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and much more. Team...

Para-badminton star Dan Bethell with the silver medal he won in the men's SL3 singles final at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. CREDIT: imagecomms

Silver lining for para-badminton player Dan Bethell after dramatic final while para-triathlete Michael Taylor places sixth in Paris

02 September 2024

Bath para-badminton star Dan Bethell won the second silver medal of his Paralympic Games career as he was narrowly edged out in a dramatic men’s SL3 singles final. An absorbing encounter saw Bethell recover from losing the opening game, then rally from 19-16 down in the decisive third game before saving a match point to serve for the gold medal at 21-20. However, opponent Kumar Nitesh of India managed to take the next three points...

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