University of Bath-based sportspeople Eilidh Doyle and Jazz Carlin has been named as flag bearers, for Team Scotland and Team Wales respectively, for Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Hurdler Doyle, a double Commonwealth silver-medallist, will become Scotland's first-ever female flag bearer after being chosen by her fellow team members to lead the country into the Carrara Stadium. "I'm so over the moon," said Doyle, who is coached by Brian Doyle at the...
Triathlete Vicky Holland says the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games were “a career-defining moment” for her – and she is hoping the Gold Coast 2018 edition will provide a similar milestone after a year plagued by injury problems. The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze-medallist will be the first of the 30 University of Bath-based sportspeople at the Games to compete in a final when she lines up in the women’s individual competition on Thursday (12.31am BST). It...
The Isle of Man is taking a team of 32 to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games – and three of them are based at the University of Bath. Swimmer Guy Davies and badminton player Jessica Li are both students at the University, studying Biology and Economics & Mathematics respectively, while Ben Li – Jessica’s older brother and mixed doubles partner – has been training with the University’s badminton squad in the build-up to the...
Pentathlon GB athletes recorded three top-ten finishes when they competed in Los Angeles at the second Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the 2018 season. Former World Champion Samantha Murray (pictured) achieved her highest international placing since 2015 when she finished a fine fifth in the women’s competition, with team-mate Francesca Summers placing 18th overall. Rio 2016 Olympian Jamie Cooke was seventh in the men’s competition, his fourth top-ten finish in as many visits to the United...
Olympic judoka Emmanuel Nartey believes that training in the University of Bath’s inspirational educational environment was a key factor in his completion of a PhD in International Law and Human Rights Law. Nartey, who represented his native Ghana at London 2012, has been part of Team Bath’s elite training squad for the past 14 years and has combined competing on the international stage with his career as a soldier in the Royal Tank Regiment. In...
The University of Bath student swimming squad will once again be represented on the global stage when Anna Hopkin and Miles Munro compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Both combine their studies – in Sport & Exercise Science and Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering respectively – with an intensive but supportive training programme at the University’s world-renowned Sports Training Village, using the Olympic-sized London 2012 Legacy Pool and the state-of-the-art Team Bath Gym....
The University of Bath men’s 1st XV will have home advantage in the semi-finals of the BUCS Rugby Championship as they look to secure their place at Twickenham. The IKON Construction-sponsored team, who are also supported by Investigo, will take on Severn Derby rivals Cardiff Met at the Sports Training Village on Wednesday, April 4 (7pm kick-off) and admission to spectators is free. Victory that night would see Bath through to the national final at...
HRH Prince Harry, Patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, and fiancee Meghan Markle will join hundreds of athletes at the University of Bath on Friday, April 6 when the Sports Training Village once again hosts the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Sydney 2018. It is the third successive year that the trials will take place in the University’s world-class sporting facilities and Prince Harry – who also attended in 2016 and 2017 –...
University of Bath graduates Deborah Fleming, Natasha Hunt and Amy Wilson Hardy have been named in the Team England women’s rugby sevens squad for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. It is the first time that the sport will have been contested at a Commonwealth Games, with England being drawn against Fiji, host nation Australia and Wales in Pool B. Hunt, who studied Coach Education & Sports Development, and Wilson Hardy, an Integrated Mechanical &...
After missing out on a medal by just six-hundredths of a second at Rio 2016, swimmer Chloe Tutton – the latest Olympian to move her training base to the University of Bath – is determined to get on the podium when she races at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games next week. The 21-year-old, who joined the renowned British Swimming National Centre Bath training group last month, is one of 11 University-based swimmers who will...
