Matt Weston won his second gold of Olympic season and Tabby Stoecker claimed a superb silver as British Skeleton athletes once again excelled on the IBSF World Cup circuit, this time in Lillehammer. Stoecker also secured her second team gold with Marcus Wyatt in as many races and there was a wider podium place for Freya Tarbit as the University of Bath-based GB squad made it five medals from two events at the start of...
With the 50th anniversary approaching of the UK’s first sporting scholarships being awarded at the University of Bath, beneficiaries – including Olympic medallist Kate Shortman – joined current and prospective donors for a special reception. Shortman, a Bill Whiteley Scholar who famously won artistic swimming silver for Team GB at Paris 2024, was joined by fellow Olympian Charlie Brown (modern pentathlon, Santander Scholarship) and aspiring LA 2028 stars Jack Skerry (swimming, US Foundation) and Aleeya...
British Bobsleigh’s men made a solid start to the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games season with two wider podium placings on the opening IBSF World Cup weekend. Brakeman Olly Butterworth, making his GBR1 debut in place of the injured Taylor Lawrence, helped Brad Hall to sixth spot in the two-man on Saturday. That result on the track that will host the Olympics in three months’ time was matched the following day in the four-man by...
British Skeleton’s Matt Weston began the 2026 Winter Olympic season as he will hope to end it – on top of the podium at the Cortina d’Ampezzo sliding centre in Italy. The reigning World Champion (pictured top), who trains at the University of Bath, produced two strong runs to start the 2025-26 IBSF World Cup campaign with an excellent gold in the first race to be staged on the track that will host the Milano-Cortina...
Brad Hall says he is “turning over every stone” in the pursuit of perfection as he looks to steer British Bobsleigh to two Olympic medals and more World Cup podium places during the 2025-26 season. Hall, the men's GBR1 two-man and four-man pilot, and his crew have been training tirelessly at the University of Bath since April as they look to build on a historic Olympiad which has seen GB win their first World Championships...
David McNulty, the University of Bath-based coach behind dozens of Olympic, World and Commonwealth swimming successes, has been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA). McNulty, who has been Lead Coach of the Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre for the past 17 years, also received a Coaching Award of Excellence accolade in the 2025 BSCA Annual Awards. On presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award, the BSCA said: “Dave McNulty has...
British Skeleton athletes are heading into the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games season with ambitions and confidence high after a productive summer of training at the University of Bath. The squad start their 2025-26 IBSF World Cup campaign on Friday 21st November at the redeveloped Eugenio Monti Olympic Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo, which will also host the Olympic Games in February. Securing a spot in the Team GB squad is the first goal for...
Olympians Rachel Smith and Anna Hopkin, who both studied and trained at the University of Bath, will be sharing their experience with emerging athletes after being appointed to key roles with Team GB for the Skopje 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). Smith (pictured top), who captained Team GB’s rhythmic gymnastics team during London 2012, has been selected as Chef de Mission for Skopje 2025 while Tokyo 2020 swimming gold-medallist Hopkin will take on the...
Double Paralympic medallist Dan Bethell says he is excited to share his knowledge and passion for clean sport with the next generation of sports stars after being appointed to the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Athlete Commission. The para-badminton multi-medallist, who trains at the University of Bath, is one of seven new members of the now 12-strong commission – which also includes recently-retired Olympic skeleton medallist Laura Deas – who ensure that athletes are placed at the...
Golfer Charlotte Gregory was voted by her fellow students as the University of Bath's Sports Personality of the Year when the 2025 Blues Awards took place at the historic Roman Baths and Pump Room. The Psychology student was presented with her prize by Professor Cassie Wilson, the University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), during the annual celebration of student sport. [caption id="attachment_71828" align="alignright" width="292"] Charlotte Gregory is presented with the Sports Personality of the Year prize...
