Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold, World Champion Vicky Holland and Paralympic silver-medallist Piers Gilliver were among the University of Bath-based athletes, coaches and clubs to enjoy success at the 2018 Bath Chronicle Sports Awards. Yarnold, who made history by successfully defending her women’s skeleton crown at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, was named as Sports Personality of the Year for a second time having also won in 2015. Her success came after British Skeleton, based...
Team Bath Judo’s Gregg Varey claimed the third Continental Open medal of his career when he won a brilliant bronze at the Dakar African Open in Senegal. The University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, who is Team Captain of the Team Bath High Performance Judo Squad, beat home favourite Jeannot Diata in the -66kg bronze-medal match to secure a well-deserved podium place. Varey needed just 42 seconds to win his opening bout against Nigeria’s Moctar...
Team Bath Dual Career athlete Leon Chevalier won individual and team gold as University of Bath students impressed at the BUCS Duathlon Championships in Chippenham. First-year Chemical Engineering student Chevalier completed the course at Castle Combe Circuit – a two-mile run, 10-mile bike ride and another two-mile run – in 41:45 to finish 15 seconds clear of the field. Fellow Dual Career athlete Alex Chantler-Mayne, who studies Mechanical Engineering, was sixth overall in 42:34 and...
Team Bath Rhythmic Gymnastics Club's display squad performed at one of the biggest gymnastics showcase ever over the weekend when they took part in GymFusion at the Birmingham Hippodrome. They were among a variety of clubs who came together to display their skills in a fun, friendly and non-competitive environment. The talented Team Bath girls travelled through the music ages as they showed off display skills with a creative interpretation of the theme 'time' during a...
British Skeleton athletes, who train at the University of Bath, have made an outstanding start to the 2018-19 season after winning nine medals from eight races in Igls, Austria. Olympic medallist Laura Deas began her warm-up for the World Cup season by winning silver medals on successive days on the Intercontinental Cup, while Craig Thompson and Marcus Wyatt both struck gold – the latter having finished runner-up to Thompson in the opening race. University of...
Great Britain’s Fed Cup Captain Anne Keothavong and Team Bath player Anna Smith joined local tennis players at the University of Bath today as tickets for the highly-anticipated Fed Cup by BNP Paribas went on sale to the general public. The University’s £30million Sports Training Village will stage the international women’s team event, dubbed the World Cup of Tennis, from February 6-9 2019 as GB and seven other nations compete for a place in the...
Team Bath men’s 1st XV saw their BUCS Super Rugby winning run come to an end as they were edged out 29-26 by fellow high-fliers Cardiff Met at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight. Harry Johnston’s penalty five minutes from time ultimately proved to be the difference in a feisty, physical affair between two evenly-matched sides who were separated by just one point going into the fixture. It was a frustrating defeat for...
Olympic silver-medallist and former Modern Pentathlon World Champion Samantha Murray has today announced her retirement from the sport after ten years at the top. The 29-year-old, who also won World Championship bronze in 2012 and enjoyed a World Cup win in 2015, is one of Great Britain’s most successful modern pentathletes. Murray has been based at the University of Bath throughout that decade. As well as training at Pentathlon GB’s National Performance Centre, she studied...
Tom Derbyshire and Luke Turley strike gold as student-swimmers at the University of Bath pick up a horde of medals at the BUCS National Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Sport & Exercise Science student Derbyshire, who is supported through a British Swimming Scholarship and made his senior British debut at the Glasgow 2018 European Championships, took gold in the men’s 1,500m freestyle with a dominant display that saw him break the 15-minute mark and win the title...
Team Bath Netball made an encouraging start to their pre-season fixtures as they recorded two well-earned victories in a tri-tournament hosted by Loughborough Lightning on Saturday. All 14 players in the Sitec-sponsored Blue & Gold squad got court time as they stepped up their preparations for the 2019 Vitality Superleague campaign, which begins in January - click here for ticket information. After beating Strathclyde Sirens 39-33 in their opening match, Team Bath found themselves six...
