University of Bath-based swimmers will bring home a terrific 12 medals between them from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after adding two more to the tally on the final day of competition in the pool. James Guy, part of the highly-successful British Swimming National Centre Bath squad that trains in the London 2012 Legacy Pool at the University’s Sports Training Village, collected his fifth medal of the week as he helped England claim silver...
University of Bath-based swimmer James Guy won his fourth medal of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Monday as he took silver in the 100m butterfly. The British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer finished runner-up to South Africa’s Chad Le Clos, who completed a clean sweep of butterfly golds at the meeting. Team Bath Netball’s Eboni Beckford-Chambers and Kadeen Corbin are guaranteed a shot at a medal later this week after helping England secure...
Team Bath Netball U21 captain Chartie Curtis has been named in the England U19 squad for this summer’s tour of Australia, two days after guiding the Blue & Gold to bronze medals in the Netball Performance League (NPL). Curtis, who is in the first year of an Economics degree at the University of Bath, successfully came through trials to secure her place in the squad of 12. The England U19s will be based at the...
Swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor became the first University of Bath-based sportsperson to win gold at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as she successfully defended her 200m individual medley title on Sunday. O’Connor, coached by Dave McNulty at the British Swimming National Centre Bath, was the class of the field as she finished nearly two seconds ahead of her nearest rival to claim her third medal of the week. “The time wasn’t my best but it’s...
Triathlete Vicky Holland and swimmers Chloe Tutton and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor took the medal tally for University of Bath-based sportspeople at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games to seven after another busy day of competition in Australia. Holland, coached by Rhys Davey in the multi-sport facilities at the Sports Training Village, helped England secure mixed team relay silver. Tutton then won Wales’ first medal in the pool at these Games, bronze in the 200m breaststroke, before...
University of Bath-based swimmer James Guy claimed his second medal of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as he helped Team England to silver in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Friday. The British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer anchored the quartet – which also featured David Cumberlidge, Ben Proud and Jarvis Parkinson – to second place behind hosts Australia. It was Guy’s second final of the night, having narrowly missed out on a medal...
University of Bath-based swimmers James Guy, Anna Hopkin and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor all bagged bronze medals on the first day of competition at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer Guy, coached by Jol Finck at the Sports Training Village, went out hard in his 400m freestyle final before digging deep in the closing stages to finish third behind Australians Mack Horton and Jack McLoughlin. Fellow National Centre Bath swimmer O’Connor...
Some of the country’s top sportspeople joined dignitaries, students and local schoolchildren at the University of Bath today to celebrate its links to both the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The Commonwealth Big Lunch, organised and hosted in conjunction with UK Sport, saw 130 guests enjoy food from around the Commonwealth in the first of a nationwide series of events building up to the Commonwealth Heads of Governnment...
Team Bath Netball’s winning start to the 2018 Vitality Superleague season was ended by a clinical Manchester Thunder side on Friday. The Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold edged the first and final quarters in front of a noisy sell-out crowd but Thunder, inspired by excellent goal-attack Kathryn Turner, were fast and fluent going forward and deserved their victory, eventually coming out on top 60-51. Anna Stembridge, Team Bath Netball Superleague Head Coach, said: “We’re obviously disappointed...
Experienced South African international defender Zanele Vimbela has joined the Team Bath Netball Vitality Superleague squad for the remainder of the 2018 season. The 28-year-old, part of the SPAR Proteas squad for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, arrived in the UK on Sunday and will be available to make her debut when Manchester Thunder visit the Team Bath Arena on Friday (centre-pass 7.30pm - click here to buy tickets). “I’m setting in very well,...
