Matt Weston will have chance to complete a full set of men’s skeleton titles at the Winter Olympics next month after securing his third successive IBSF Overall World Cup crown in Altenberg, Germany. Team-mate Marcus Wyatt joined him on the overall podium after producing two outstanding runs to win gold in the last World Cup of 2025-26 and Tabby Stoecker became the first British woman since double Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold to win an Overall...
A Para Lioness footballer, two England U20 rugby players and aspiring Olympians in artistic swimming, judo and sailing make up the inspirational cohort of University of Bath student-athletes to be awarded sporting scholarships for the 2025-26 academic year. Maria Slade, Diamond Ayiehfor, Tate Williams, Cara Zeidler, George Riley and Matthew Rayner will all benefit from scholarship funding to help them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at an elite level. They follow in...
British Bobsleigh secured their first medals of Olympic season when Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence finished a fantastic third in the two-man race in St Moritz. That result meant the University of Bath-based duo collected two bronze medals as the IBSF World Cup also doubled as the 2026 European Championships. It was the first time the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympians had raced together in the two-man since last year’s World Championships after a calf injury...
British Skeleton’s Matt Weston won his third gold medal in as many days as he added the European title to his World crown in St Moritz, while Tabby Stoecker won continental silver in the women’s race. Jacob Salisbury and Freya Tarbit also bagged European bronze in the team race, pipping compatriots Marcus Wyatt and Amelia Coltman to the podium by one-hundredth of a second. The penultimate IBSF World Cup before the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic...
Matt Weston extended his dominance of the 2025-26 IBSF Skeleton World Cup season into Olympic year by winning the rescheduled men’s race in St Moritz on Wednesday. The reigning World Champion, who trains with the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) at the University of Bath, set new start and track records during a blistering second run as he built on a rapid first outing to finish more than a second clear of the field...
Team Hall began Winter Olympic year with British Bobsleigh’s best result of the 2025-26 IBSF World Cup season to date when racing resumed in Winterberg, Germany after the Christmas break. With experienced brakeman Taylor Lawrence back in the sled after injury, Brad Hall steered the GBR1 four-man bobsleigh crew – which also included Leon Greenwood and Greg Cackett – to fourth place, moving up one position from the last World Cup of 2025 in Lillehammer....
With a new Olympic year about to dawn, it is time to reflect on another memorable 12 months of sport at the University of Bath during 2025. It has been a year where achievement and impact have been measured not just by the traditional yardstick of medals and awards – among them the accolade of The Times and Sunday Times Sport University of the Year 2026 – but also innovation, collaboration and ambition. The UK’s...
British Skeleton will head into Olympic year with confidence high after winning six medals on the final IBSF World Cup race weekend of 2025, including back-to-back one-two finishes in the men’s races. A double-header weekend of racing in Sigulda, Latvia saw University of Bath-based Matt Weston dominate the first men’s race on Friday to finish nearly a second clear of the field in 1:40.35 and claim a third successive gold at the start of the...
Team Bath judoka brought home a super seven medals from the British Judo Championships 2025 in Nottingham. The Senior Championships saw Roxy Proctor win a third consecutive silver in the women’s -63kg division, an achievement matched by Biology fresher Amelia Alder in the -52kg category. Anika Rabi was a -70kg bronze-medallist and George Riley, a Sport and Exercise Science first-year, ranked third overall in the men’s -100kg contest. It was Riley and Alder’s second medals...
Sporting scholar Matthew Ward hailed the “good vibe” at the University of Bath after swimmers won 17 medals, seven of them gold, and set five new records at the National Winter Short Course Championships in England and Scotland. Engineering student Ward secured four of those national record times as he completed a clean sweep of backstroke titles at the Scottish Championships in Edinburgh, clocking 23.60 in the 50m, 51.08 in the 100m and 1:50.37 in...
