News Archive, Category: Olympic & Paralympic

Para-triathlon athlete Michael Taylor, who trains at the University of Bath, was selected to represent ParalympicsGB at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Tuesday 23rd July 2024

In-form para-triathlete Michael Taylor becomes latest Bath-based sportsperson officially selected for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

23 July 2024

University of Bath-based para-triathlete Michael Taylor will be looking to continue his medal-winning form when he heads to Paris next month for his second Paralympic Games. Taylor, who trains with the British Triathlon Bath National Performance Centre squad at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, has been on the podium in four of his five World Triathlon Para Series international races during 2024, winning gold in three of them. If he can continue that form...

A picture of Pentathlon GB's Charlie Brown, who trains and studies at the University of Bath. He has been selected to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Student-athlete Charlie Brown called into Team GB modern pentathlon squad for Paris 2024 Olympic Games

22 July 2024

University of Bath student Charlie Brown has been called into the Team GB modern pentathlon squad for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as an injury replacement for Pentathlon GB team-mate Myles Pillage. Brown, who studies Sports Management and Coaching, will make his Olympic debut alongside reigning champion Joe Choong in the men’s competition, which starts on Thursday 8th August with the final on Saturday 10th. “I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity,” said the 21-year-old...

Renowned swimming coach David McNulty, mentor to Olympic medallists, proud to accept honorary degree from University of Bath

22 July 2024

Olympic swimming coach David McNulty says he is proud to accept the award of an honorary degree from the University of Bath, the institution where he has delivered his globally-renowned training programme for the past 16 years. McNulty, who heads to Paris this week for his sixth Games as part of the Team GB coaching staff, has guided swimmers – including reigning champions Tom Dean and Freya Anderson – to 11 Olympic medals during his...

Team Bath Futures sprint coach Grace Crompton hoping to set golden pace with Team GB rugby 7s at Paris Olympic Games

16 July 2024

When it comes to Olympians inspiring the next generation, Team GB rugby 7s player Grace Crompton is very much walking the walking – or sprinting the sprint in her case. Crompton, who studied Sports Management and Coaching at the University of Bath, is putting the knowledge she gained from her degree to good use by working with young sportspeople on the Team Bath Futures talent development programme. Renowned for her lightning pace on the rugby...

A picture of Pentathlon GB's Kerenza Bryson at the Team Bath Sports Training Village where she trains.

Paris-bound Kerenza Bryson’s individual title among haul of two gold medals, one silver and one bronze for Pentathlon GB at Euro Champs

14 July 2024

University of Bath-based Kerenza Bryson warmed up for her Olympics debut in fine style as she struck gold for Pentathlon GB at the 2024 European Senior Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She also won women’s team silver with individual bronze-medalist Emma Whitaker and Politics & International Relations student Alex Bousfield, who had joined forces earlier in the week to win a brilliant gold in the women’s relay. Bryson, one of four Bath-based modern pentathletes selected to...

A picture of Team GB hockey player Tim Nurse following his selection as a travelling reserve for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. CREDIT: Team GB

Former Bath sporting scholar Tim Nurse determined to make the most of Paris 2024 Olympic experience with Team GB hockey squad

13 July 2024

University of Bath graduate Tim Nurse says he “will do everything I can to help” Team GB win men’s hockey gold after being named as a travelling reserve for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Nurse, who was supported by a King Scholarship while studying Sports Performance at the University from 2017 to 2021, is part of the wider 18 travelling to the Stade Yves-du-Manoir for this summer’s championships. While he is disappointed not to be...

Three student swimmers at the University of Bath have qualified to represent their countries at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (From left) Head of Swimming Mark Skimming, Angola’s Henrique Mascarenhas, Nigeria’s Tobi Sijuade, Kenya’s Ridhwan Mohamed and Assistant Swimming Coach Andrei Vorontsov.

University of Bath Student Swimming Club trio thrilled to represent their countries at Paris 2024 after achieving their Olympic dreams

12 July 2024

Three international swimmers who have successfully combined training and studying at the University of Bath are celebrating after qualifying to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Chemical Engineering student Henrique Mascarenhas will represent Angola in the 100m freestyle, while Ridhwan Mohamed – who studies Automotive Engineering with Business Management – will contest the 400m freestyle for Kenya on the opening day of competition in the Paris La Defense Arena. Tobi Sijuade, who continues to...

More University of Bath sporting scholars heading to Paris 2024 Olympic Games as judoka and hurdler secure their selections

09 July 2024

Two more former University of Bath Sporting Scholars, Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz and Alastair Chalmers, have been selected to represent Mexico and Team GB respectively at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a second Games for judoka Awiti-Alcaraz, who competed for Mexico at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She earned automatic qualification for Paris by ranking in the world’s top 20 in the women’s -63kg category after an impressive two years on the international...

Marathon swimmer and University of Bath sporting scholar Leah Crisp at the Team Bath Sports Training Village where she trains with the British Swimming Performance Centre Bath elite squad.

Sporting scholar Leah Crisp ready to compete on world’s biggest sporting stage this summer after graduating from University

08 July 2024

Graduating from the University of Bath and making her Olympics debut – it is going to be quite the summer for sporting scholar Leah Crisp. The marathon swimmer will attend Bath Abbey on Tuesday 16th July for her official graduation ceremony in Economics and Mathematics before returning to the University’s Sports Training Village to continue her final preparations for the Paris Games. Crisp will contest the women’s 10km race on Thursday 8th August (6.30am BST),...

A picture of University of Bath-based wheelchair fencing Piers Gilliver who won double gold at the IWASF World Cup in Warsaw, Poland in July 2024.

Golden hat-trick provides Bath-based wheelchair fencers with fillip before final countdown to Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

08 July 2024

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...

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