A dominant Dan Bethell won the British & Irish Para Badminton International title for a fourth successive year – and in a fourth different nation. The double Paralympic medallist, who trains at the University of Bath, needed less than 30 minutes to beat India's Umesh Vikram Kumar 21-4 21-7 in the men’s SL3 singles final following an excellent tournament at the Sport Wales National Centre in Cardiff. Bethell – who had won his previous titles...
Team Bath Tennis ace Toby Samuel and University of Bath-based rower Josh Knight both won silver medals for Great Britain at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games in Germany. Samuel, coached by Ian MacDonald at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, enjoyed an excellent tournament on the clay courts in Essen and was only denied men’s singles gold by Japan’s Jay Friend who won a gripping final 6-1 4-6 7-5. He also won men’s...
Sporting scholar Matthew Ward won four gold medals and there was a title double for fellow University of Bath student Niamh Ward at the 2025 Aquatics GB Next Gen Championships in Sheffield. Olympian Jacob Peters also topped the podium as University-based swimmers finished the meet – formerly the British Summer Championships – with 14 medals in total. Matthew Ward, an Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student supported by a Bill Whiteley Scholarship, dominated the men’s...
Emma Whitaker won women’s individual silver for University of Bath-based Pentathlon GB at the 2025 Senior European Championships in Madrid, Spain. The Sports Performance graduate, who was supported by a Santander Sporting Scholarship during her time as a student-athlete at the University, crossed the line just two seconds behind France’s Rebecca Castaudi after an exciting sprint finish. Whitaker had performed consistently throughout a gripping final but saved her best performance to last, her time of...
University of Bath sporting scholar Ranjuo Tomblin has capped a stellar season by winning the first World Aquatics Championships medal of his artistic swimming career. The Sports Performance student and partner Izzy Thorpe received a total score of 322.0583 to place third in the Mixed Duet Free final and secure Great Britain’s first-ever World Championships medal in the event. The duo had narrowly missed on a medal in the Mixed Duet Tech on Wednesday and...
GB sprinter Aleeya Sibbons had double cause for celebration as she graduated from the University of Bath and was named as the latest Team Bath Rengen Athlete of the Month. The award recognised the excellent progress made by Sibbons following her successful return from a long-term ankle injury that had dashed her hopes of competing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. After 10 months of recovery and rehabilitation, Sibbons won 100m gold in her comeback...
Last weekend was one for the history books for the South West GB Performance Development Academy (PDA) as athletes on the Olympic Pathway Programme and their University of Bath crew-mates won a flurry of medals to top the rankings at the British Rowing Club Championships. Amid 162 clubs and over 3,000 competitors, the 13 athletes representing Bath University Boat Club brought home one gold, three silver and two bronze medals across three days of racing....
University of Bath sporting scholar Justin Davies secured the first major individual medal of his international career as he won an excellent 800m silver at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway. The Team Bath AC runner, coached by Martin Rush, produced a perfectly-timed dip on the line to clock 1:44.97 and pip Italy’s Giovanni Lazzaro to second spot by one-hundredth of a second. “This one really hasn’t sunk in, I don’t think it...
After playing alongside each other for the University of Bath in BUCS Super Rugby, Max Ojomoh and Tom Pittman faced each other on the international stage when England took on the United States in Washington DC on Saturday. It was a senior debut for Bath Rugby treble winner Ojomoh, who formally graduated from the University last week after completing his Business degree. Lining up at inside centre for the USA Eagles was Sports Performance alumnus...
A standout season with new franchise Nottingham Forest has earned University of Bath sporting scholar Jayda Pechova the NSL (Netball Super League) Young Player of the Year Award for 2025. The Sports Performance student was in the top three players for interceptions, deflections and gains as she continued the excellent defensive partnership she had forged with Tash Pavelin at Team Bath Netball to help Forest finish fifth in their debut season. Pechova, who is supported...
