University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers won five medals, three of them gold, when they visited Poland for the last IWASF World Cup competition before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. [caption id="attachment_70653" align="alignright" width="292"] Dimitri Coutya won gold and two bronze in Warsaw. PICTURES: Archive IKS-AWF, Adrian Stykowski[/caption] Piers Gilliver (pictured top), whose aim in Paris is to win gold in both the Category A epee and sabre, did just that in Warsaw as he defeated...
Team Bath Netball are delighted to confirm that it has been granted a licence to deliver the southwest performance pathway on behalf of England Netball. Following the outcome of the NSL 2.0 tender, where Team Bath was not successful in securing a licence for the newly-launched Netball Super League from 2025, England Netball presented an opportunity in which Team Bath could still retain a licence to deliver the performance pathway in the southwest and compete...
Rhino will supply performance rugby squads at the University of Bath with their elite-level Vortex Pro match ball as part of a new partnership that will also see them supply contact equipment to the 2024 BUCS Super Rugby semi-finalists. The new collaboration with the University of Bath Rugby Student Performance Sport programme means the university’s rugby teams will have access to state-of-the-art training gear including scrum machines, balls and other essential equipment. Aaron James, Head...
Defending champion Piers Gilliver and fellow Paralympic Games medallists Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson are among the University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers named in the ParalympicsGB squad for Paris 2024. Joining them in the spectacular surroundings of the Grand Palais this September will be four-time Paralympian Gemma Collis, who does some of her training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) and receives sport-science support from the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) team at the...
Chari Hawkins’ qualification for the Team USA track and field squad heading to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is reward for the University of Bath alumna's “super focussed and super positive” approach to athletics. That is the view of Colin Bovell, Head Coach Track and Field at the University, who worked with heptathlete Hawkins from 2017-18 while she combined her sport with a Postgraduate degree in International Education & Globalisation. “Chari was always an exceptional...
The Touch Rugby World Cup is being staged in England for the first time this summer and University of Bath student Louis Treays cannot wait to compete at a home championship. Nearly 200 teams representing 40 nations will compete in the biggest-ever World Cup, taking place at the University of Nottingham from 15-21 July. Treays, who graduates from his Sports Performance undergraduate degree this summer, is part of the England Open Men’s squad along with...
University of Bath student Riku Biscomb is taking to the global stage for the first time as he represents Great Britain at the 19th World Kendo Championship in Milan, Italy. Biscomb, who has just completed the first year of a Sports Performance course, is supported in his dual student-athlete careers by the Student Performance Sport Breakthrough Programme and does his gym work at the Team Bath Sports Training Village while also training with Bath Kendo...
Defending champions Joe Choong and Kate French plus Pentathlon GB colleagues Kerenza Bryson and Myles Pillage have today become the latest University of Bath-based athletes to be officially selected by Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a third Games apiece for French and fellow Tokyo gold-medallist Choong, who has won two Modern Pentathlon World Championship titles since claiming Olympic gold in record-breaking style in 2021. The duo, who studied Sports...
Super League captain Bethan Dyke was a double winner as Team Bath Netball celebrated the 2024 campaign across all age groups at their end-of-season awards evening. Wales international Dyke, who had been awarded with the Fans’ Most Valuable Player Award at the previous night’s All-Star Match, was also her team-mates’ choice as Players’ Player of the Year. Vitality Roses defender Tash Pavelin was Coaches’ Player and Kirsty Harris received the Spirit of Bath Award during...
There was a celebratory atmosphere at the Team Bath Arena on Friday as past and present Team Bath Netball players donned the famous Blue & Gold once again to celebrate the club's trailblazing Super League era. A host of iconic players from the club's two decades - including five members of the inaugural Super League squad in 2005-06 - took to the court alongside the 2024 Super League squad for a hugely-entertaining evening enjoyed by...
