Swimmer Brodie Williams became the first University of Bath-based athlete to win gold at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games after another magnificent evening in the Sandwell Aquatic Centre. Williams, coached by David McNulty at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, produced an outstanding performance to take the 200m backstroke title by one-hundredth of a second after a thrilling final. “It means a lot," he said. "I won my first senior medal in the 100m but...
Olympic, World and European Champion Calum Jarvis, who studied and trains at the University of Bath, has confirmed his retirement from competitive swimming following the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Jarvis, who studied Sports Performance and has been part of the British Swimming Performance Centre Bath squad for the past 11 years, helped Wales set a new 4x200m freestyle relay national record of 7:10.64 in his final race on Monday. [caption id="attachment_67747" align="alignright" width="292"] Calum Jarvis...
Tom Dean won his fourth and fifth silver medals of the Commonwealth Games and was once again joined on the podium by James Guy on another good night for University of Bath-based swimmers at Birmingham 2022. Dean, supported by a Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholarship, produced an excellent swim to finish runner-up to former Olympic Champion Kyle Chalmers of Australia in the 100m freestyle final at the start of the evening. He was back in the...
James Guy won the 12th medal of his Commonwealth Games career and Freya Anderson secured her third podium place in as many days as University of Bath-based swimmers continued their excellent form at Birmingham 2022 on Sunday. British Swimming Performance Centre Bath star Guy produced a brilliant swim from the outside lane to win bronze in the 200m butterfly at Sandwell Aquatics Centre. The last race of the evening saw Anderson, also coached by David...
Six medals were won by swimmers from the University of Bath – one gold and five silver – on a super Saturday night in the pool on day two of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Ben Proud of the University’s swimming club reclaimed the 50m butterfly title he had won at Glasgow 2014 and sporting scholar Tom Dean took silver in his latest epic 200m freestyle battle with Scotland’s Duncan Scott. Dean grabbed a second...
Swimmers Tom Dean, Freya Anderson and Ed Mildred became the first University of Bath-based athletes to win medals at Birmingham 2022 as they helped Team England to mixed 4x100m freestyle relay silver on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games. Dean and Anderson, of the British Swimming Performance Centre based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, teamed up with fellow Olympic Champion Anna Hopkin – a University of Bath alumna – and Lewis Burras...
Four years after watching his wife represent Wales at the Commonwealth Games, Team Bath judoka Gregg Varey is ready to fulfil his own long-standing dream at Birmingham 2022. Varey has been part of the high-performance judo programme at the University of Bath since first joining as a Sports Performance student back in 2006. Now, after 16 years of dedicated work, he is finally set to make his debut at a major multi-sport event and emulate...
Members of the British Swimming Performance Centre based at the University of Bath are ready for round two of a hectic summer of major championships as they go for gold at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. After racing at the World Championships in Budapest last month, Freya Anderson, Tom Dean, James Guy, Jacob Peters and Brodie Williams have been back in training in the 50m pool at the Team Bath Sports Training Village for the...
Four years after England won Commonwealth netball gold for the first time, Team Bath players past and present are excited at the prospect of making their own history with the Vitality Roses at Birmingham 2022. England will have the unique experience of being defending champions at a major international tournament as well as the expectation that comes with being the host nation. However, there are several players in the squad who will be stepping onto...
One is an Olympian and Commonwealth Games medallist, the other is less than a year into her international rugby career but Amy Wilson Hardy and Grace Crompton have more in common than just being England 7s team-mates for Birmingham 2022. The University of Bath has been home to both, with Wilson Hardy graduating from Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 2015 while Crompton is a current Team Bath Dual-Career student-athlete. She has just completed the...
