More than 200 student-athletes – and several Olympians – will represent the University of Bath across eight different sports when the BUCS Nationals take place in Sheffield this weekend. Rio 2016 swimming medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and James Guy, who all train at the University with the British Swimming National Centre Bath, are among those taking part in the major three-day competition. They, along with fellow Olympian and Chemical Engineering graduate Andrew Willis, will...
World Junior Champions Mica McNeill and Mica Moore will get GB Bobsleigh’s World Senior Championships campaign under way in Konigssee, Germany this weekend. They will race in the women’s two-man bob competition on Friday and Saturday. GB will have two crews in the men’s event on Saturday and Sunday, with Joel Fearon pushing Bruce Tasker and debutant Sam Blanchet teaming up with Brad Hall. Tasker and Fearon will be looking to go one better than...
Olympic medallist Eilidh Doyle won gold and there were silvers for Dave King and Cameron Chalmers as University of Bath-based athletes impressed at the British Indoor Team Trials in Sheffield. Sport & Social Sciences student Pippa Rogan also finished in the bronze-medal position in the women's high jump with a new personal best. Doyle (pictured), coached by Malcolm Arnold at the Sports Training Village, secured her place at next month’s European Indoor Championships in Belgrade,...
Paralympic champion Will Bayley was among players from around the world who contested the latest stage of the 2017 Table Tennis England Grand Prix series at the University of Bath Sports Training Village over the weekend. Chris Doran took the men’s singles title with an 11-8, 11-8, 6-11, 11-7 victory over Helshan Weerasinghe, while the women’s crown went to Hannah Hicks following her hard-fought 11-13, 12-10, 5-11, 12-10, 11-5 success against China’s Haoyu Liu. Callum...
There was a sense of déjà vu at the University of Bath over the weekend as Kate French, Sam Curry, Olivia Green and Oliver Murray all won their second Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competitions of the year. The senior event on Sunday saw Rio 2016 Olympian and Sports Performance graduate French (pictured) finish 45 points clear of Natural Sciences student Jess Varley, who is supported by the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS). Jo Muir, another...
The country’s top modern pentathletes will once again be in action at the University of Bath over the weekend as they contest the second Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition of 2017. The U19s are up first in the Youth category on Saturday, featuring athletes from clubs across the country as well as a small contingent of German pentathletes to add an international flavour to the competition. It is then the turn of the seniors on...
Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold and University of Bath student Dom Parsons are both in the six-strong Great Britain Skeleton squad for this month’s World Championships in Konigssee, Germany. Laura Deas and Donna Creighton complete the women’s line-up, while Jerry Rice and Jack Thomas will make their Championships debuts in the men’s competition. The announcement comes with exactly one year to go before the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Yarnold won gold on...
University of Bath sporting scholar Peter Scott (right) and fellow Team Bath Buccaneers player Liam Sanford (left) will gain their first experience of senior international hockey after being named in the England Men’s squad for a four-Test series in South Africa. Sanford was added to England’s central training programme last month after impressing in trials and is in line to win his first senior cap. Sport Performance student Scott, supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship,...
University of Bath-based swimmer Jemma Lowe has called time on a distinguished career that saw her race at two Olympic Games and win medals on the World, European and Commonwealth stages. Her announcement comes just a day after former Team Bath swimmer Sascha Kindred announced his retirement following a stellar career that saw him win 62 major medals, including seven Paralympic golds. Lowe moved her training base to the Bath National Training Centre in September...
Four University of Bath-based international athletes got to try their hand at driving diggers and dump trucks as they paid a special visit to the headquarters of Team Bath partners MJ Church. Rio 2016 wheelchair fencing silver-medallist Piers Gilliver and judoka Ben Fletcher were joined by England Women’s rugby player Sydney Gregson and skeleton athlete Jor’dan McIntosh on the informative and interactive tour of the Civil Engineering, Plant, Transport and Waste Management Contractors’ Marshfield base....
