Mike Taylor has joined the world-class coaching staff at the British Swimming National Centre based at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Taylor, who began his coaching career with the City of Sheffield, will work alongside David McNulty and Jol Finck with a training group that includes Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy. “When I saw there was an opportunity to work with British Swimming, I was very excited...
Olympians Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke took the titles when the University of Bath played host to the 2017 British Modern Pentathlon Championships on Sunday. An action-packed day at the Sports Training Village also saw members of the public take part in the first-ever Laser-Run City Tour event to be staged in the UK. The University is the long-term home to Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre, so it was against a familiar backdrop that London...
Team Bath Netball have booked their place in the Vitality Superleague Final Four, despite seeing their winning run come to an end at Wasps Netball on Saturday. Surrey Storm’s 71-63 defeat at table-topping Loughborough Lightning meant they were unable to take advantage of the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold’s 49-35 loss earlier in the evening. The results on the final day of the regular season meant that Team Bath finished fourth overall, three points clear of...
Kate French will go into this weekend’s British Open Modern Pentathlon Championships at the University of Bath with confidence high after finishing the 2017 UIPM World Cup series ranked as the women’s number one. The Rio 2016 Olympian competed in three of the competitions this year, winning gold in Cairo and silver in Los Angeles as well as placing sixth in Kecskemet, Hungary. She is among the country’s top modern pentathletes competing in the British...
University of Bath students Anna Hopkin and Jay Lelliott have been named in a 16-strong British swimming squad for the 2017 World University Games in Chinese Taipei. It will be Lelliott’s second experience of the world’s second-biggest multi-sport competition after the Olympic Games – he also competed in 2015, winning 400m freestyle gold and 800m freestyle silver. Sports Performance student Lelliott is supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship and is also a sporting ambassador for...
University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers Piers Gilliver and Dimitri Coutya continued their excellent form as they won seven titles between them at the 2017 British Disabled Fencing Association National Championships. Rio 2016 silver-medallist Gilliver, a sporting ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church, took gold in the men’s Category A epee, foil and sabre before being awarded the Wilkinson Sword Master at Arms Trophy. He also shared the Vera Burge Trophy for best personal performance...
Team Bath Netball’s Final Four fate is in their own hands after they recorded a crucial Vitality Superleague victory at Manchester Thunder on Monday night. A defensive masterclass from the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold, coupled with some slick and vibrant attacking play, secured a 57-45 success for the visitors. It was a seventh successive win for Team Bath and moves them up to fourth in the table, three points clear of Surrey Storm who suffered...
Team Bath MCTA Tennis enjoyed one of its most successful weeks ever on the professional tour as Anna Smith won a title in Germany and Marcus Daniell reached the final in France. Smith, coached by Ian MacDonald, and new partner Nicole Melichar of the United States claimed the women’s doubles crown at the Nuremberg International WTA clay-court event after a thrilling final. They lost the first set 6-3 to Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens and Johanna Larsson...
Vicky Thornley won her first European Championships title as she claimed the GB Rowing Team’s only gold medal at the 2017 event in Racice, Czech Republic. Thornley, a graduate of the GB Rowing Team Start programme at the University of Bath, continued her excellent start to the season by moving through the field to take the women’s single scull title. It rekindled fond memories for Rio 2016 Olympic silver-medallist Thornley, who won her first international...
The Team Bath AS swimming squad proved they are a force to be reckoned with at the regional Age Group Championships as they took three golds, 12 silvers and 12 bronze medals across four days of competition at Hengrove and Millfield. In the opening event our 12yr boys kicked off with a 3,4,5 in the 400m Freestyle with Max Adams claiming bronze and Oliver Saunders (4th) and Olly Watts (5th) following him home; only to...
