University of Bath graduates Deborah Fleming and Natasha Hunt have today been named in the Team GB women’s rugby sevens squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Former Team Bath Buccaneers player Liam Sanford has also been selected in the Team GB men’s hockey squad for this summer’s rescheduled Games. It will be a first Olympics for Sport & Social Sciences graduate Fleming (pictured), who represented the University in both netball and athletics – winning...
Lamin Deen, Ben Simons, Toby Olubi and Andrew Matthews, who train at the University of Bath, have made history after they were retrospectively upgraded to a World Cup gold medal in the 4-man bobsleigh. Deen and his team originally won silver in Whistler in November 2017 but they have now been confirmed as race winners after the disqualification of Russia’s Alexander Kasjanov for a doping offence. The result is Great Britain’s first-ever 4-man World Cup...
Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, who progressed from the Team Bath Futures programme to become an Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medallist, has today announced her retirement from competitive swimming after an outstanding career. O’Connor first took to the pool at the University of Bath Sports Training Village aged nine and went on to train there for almost all of the following 16 years, first under the guidance of first Mark Skimming and then David McNulty with the...
There was double delight for Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club during the inaugural Y1 Future Championships season as they won both the men’s and women’s titles. A thrilling men’s final saw Buccs hold off a determined challenge from University of Bristol to claim a 4-3 victory. It was a tight contest in the women’s final but Buccs came out on top 2-1 against Millfield School to complete the trophy double, with all the goals being...
University of Bath student Max Ojomoh and alumnus Miles Reid are this week training with the senior England Rugby squad for the first time as preparations begin for the summer series. Matrix Sporting Scholar Orlando Bailey has also been selected in the England U20 squad for the 2021 Six Nations Championship taking place in Cardiff later this month, while fellow first-year students Alex Clayton (Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering) and Zak Giannini (Accounting & Finance)...
Top-four chasing Saracens Mavericks produced a fantastic all-round performance to inflict only the second defeat of the 2021 Vitality Superleague season on Team Bath Netball. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold were edged out by one goal when the old rivals met earlier in the season but they were on the back foot throughout today’s match at London’s Copper Box Arena. Mavericks, who needed the points to maintain their semi-final bid, stormed into a seven-goal...
Former Team Bath trampolinist Laura Gallagher has been named in the Team GB squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Gallagher, who has represented Britain at European and world level for many years, will make her Olympic debut after producing one of her finest performances to date by qualifying for the final at the 2019 World Championships, which secured a Team GB place at the Games. She went on to finish a career-best sixth in...
Megan Fletcher narrowly missed out on a podium place in her last World Judo Championships as both she and fellow Team Bath judoka Prisca-Awiti Alcaraz impressed at the last major competition before the Tokyo Olympic Games. Fletcher, representing Ireland, was in fantastic form throughout Thursday’s -70kg competition in Budapest and recorded victories over South Africa’s Anastasiya-Alexandra Nenova and Barbara Timo of Portugal to reach the quarter-finals. Sanne Van Dijke of the Netherlands had the edge...
University of Bath alumna Sara Parfett will make her Olympic debut this summer alongside history-making Helen Glover and Rio medallist Vicky Thornley after the trio were today named in the Team GB rowing squad for Tokyo 2020. All three began their rowing careers on the British Rowing World Class Start talent identification and development programme based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village and Minerva Bath RC. Double gold-medallist Glover will become the first British...
Team Bath judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz heads into her third World Championships this week with two major goals – a podium finish and confirmation of her place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The University of Bath Sports Performance alumna, who represents Mexico, currently holds a Continental quota place in the women’s -63kg division with the World Championships in Budapest the final chance to earn qualification points. “If I perform well at the Worlds, I could...
