University of Bath students dominated the 2025 BUCS Judo Championships, coming away from Walsall with the overall team title after a tremendous 21-medal haul which included both men’s and women’s team gold. Gergo Berendi, Sam Elliott, Elliot Wilkinson, Charlie Bourton-Cole and Ollie Isaacs made up the successful men’s team, while Evie Halvey-Jacobs, Anika Rabi and Kaitlin Chapple-Allen combined to secure the women’s title. Chemistry for Drug Discovery student Rabi won women’s -70kg gold, one of...
Sporting scholar Justin Davies has been named as the latest Team Bath Rengen Athlete of the Month after a fantastic February which saw him smash national records, win a first British title and qualify for the European Athletics Championships. The Team Bath AC athlete, who trains and studies at the University of Bath, has enjoyed an excellent winter campaign which has seen him slice nearly four seconds off his 800m indoor personal best. His winning...
A host of University of Bath students, graduates and coaches played key roles as Bath Rugby ended their 17-year wait for silverware with an outstanding 48-14 victory over Exeter Chiefs in the 2024-25 Premiership Rugby Cup Final. Management student Tom Carr-Smith grabbed the first of seven Bath tries and Sports Performance alumnus Tom Dunn touched down twice on a perfect Sunday afternoon at Sandy Park. Joining Carr-Smith in the starting line-up were fellow students Jasper...
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...
An eight-try home win over Nottingham in their last league match of the 2024-25 BUCS Super Rugby season sees the University of Bath men’s 1st XV go into the knockout stages with confidence high. Wednesday’s entertaining 50-29 success at the Team Bath Sports Training Village meant third-placed Bath finished the season with 13 wins and one draw from 18 matches, and extended their current winning run to four at a time when several players have...
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...
British Skeleton’s Matt Weston has been crowned as World Champion for the second time after the University of Bath-based slider capped an outstanding pre-Olympic season with a dominant performance in Lake Placid. Silver-medallist Marcus Wyatt made it a British 1-2 as he once again joined Weston on the podium, the team-mates replicating the magnificent form that had also seen them place first and second in the Overall IBSF World Cup men’s standings. Weston, who has...
The University of Bath men’s 1st XV will equal their best-ever finish in the BUCS Super Rugby league after a 24-12 win at Cardiff on Wednesday guaranteed third place overall in the 2024-25 table. Captain Max Pearce (pictured) scored a hat-trick of tries, two of them in the first half – both converted by Will Roue – which, along with a Harry Breeze touchdown, gave the visitors a 19-12 lead at the interval. Harrison James...
Reigning Olympic champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird plus a quartet of sporting scholars are among the eight University of Bath-based swimmers confirmed on Aquatics GB’s World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2025 season. Bird and triple Olympic champion Dean, who both won men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold for Team GB at Paris 2024, are joined on the Podium tier by Bath Performance Centre training partners Jacob Peters and Jacob Whittle. The Podium Potential athletes...
It was a historic weekend for University of Bath sporting scholar Ranjuo Tomblin as he won two breakthrough gold medals for Britain at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup season opener in Paris. The Sports Performance student, who is supported by a Trendell Sporting Scholarship, became the first British male to win a World Cup medal when he came out on top in a supremely contested Men’s Tech Solo competition, with less than a...
