With a new Olympic year about to dawn, it is time to reflect on another memorable 12 months of sport at the University of Bath during 2025. It has been a year where achievement and impact have been measured not just by the traditional yardstick of medals and awards – among them the accolade of The Times and Sunday Times Sport University of the Year 2026 – but also innovation, collaboration and ambition. The UK’s...
British Bobsleigh’s men made a solid start to the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games season with two wider podium placings on the opening IBSF World Cup weekend. Brakeman Olly Butterworth, making his GBR1 debut in place of the injured Taylor Lawrence, helped Brad Hall to sixth spot in the two-man on Saturday. That result on the track that will host the Olympics in three months’ time was matched the following day in the four-man by...
Brad Hall says he is “turning over every stone” in the pursuit of perfection as he looks to steer British Bobsleigh to two Olympic medals and more World Cup podium places during the 2025-26 season. Hall, the men's GBR1 two-man and four-man pilot, and his crew have been training tirelessly at the University of Bath since April as they look to build on a historic Olympiad which has seen GB win their first World Championships...
Golfer Charlotte Gregory was voted by her fellow students as the University of Bath's Sports Personality of the Year when the 2025 Blues Awards took place at the historic Roman Baths and Pump Room. The Psychology student was presented with her prize by Professor Cassie Wilson, the University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), during the annual celebration of student sport. [caption id="attachment_71828" align="alignright" width="292"] Charlotte Gregory is presented with the Sports Personality of the Year prize...
Great Britain are celebrating a second four-man bobsleigh World Championship medal in three years, having previously not won one since 1939, after Brad Hall steered his crew to a brilliant bronze in Lake Placid. It was almost a silver for the University of Bath-based quartet of Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett, who saw their fastest of four runs chalked off after the results from Heat 2 were declared null and void. That...
Matt Weston went mighty close to winning a second IBSF Skeleton World Championship gold in 24 hours when he and Tabby Stoecker won silver for Great Britain in the team event. The GB1 team clocked a combined time of 1:54.53 to finish just one-tenth of a second behind Ro Mystique and Austin Florian of Team USA who took gold on home ice in Lake Placid. It was the second year running that Stoecker and newly-crowned...
Brad Hall steered British Bobsleigh to Overall ISBF World Cup bronze in both the two-man and four-man competitions as an excellent campaign concluded with more medal success in Lillehammer. Fifth place in Saturday’s final two-man race for University of Bath-based Hall and Taylor Lawrence was enough to secure third place overall for the British driver, who was also pushed twice by Greg Cackett during the eight-race season. [caption id="attachment_71583" align="alignright" width="292"] Taylor Lawrence and Brad...
Another stunning weekend for University of Bath-based bobsleigh athletes saw them win Great Britain’s first European Championships two-man medal for 57 years before bagging another bronze in the four-man race. [caption id="attachment_71520" align="alignright" width="292"] Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence celebrate their historic two-man bobsleigh medal. PICTURES: Viesturs Lacis | IBSF[/caption] Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence became the first non-German team to win a two-man medal in 2025 as they clocked a two-run time of 1...
Team Hall saw their stellar IBSF World Cup season reach even greater heights in St Moritz as the University of Bath-based four-man bobsleigh crew won gold at the spiritual home of sliding. Brad Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Arran Gulliver and Leon Greenwood produced two stunning starts as they finished two tenths of a second clear of back-to-back Olympic Champion Francesco Friedrich. It follows on from the same quartet’s silver medal the previous week in Igls and...
Brad Hall guided University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh to a hat-trick of medals from as many IBSF World Cup races this year as they won four-man silver in Igls. Only back-to-back Olympic Champion Francesco Friedrich finished ahead of Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Leon Greenwood and Arran Gulliver as GB followed up gold in Winterberg and bronze in St Moritz with another podium placing. It was the first time the quartet had raced together, Gulliver replacing Greg...
