University of Bath graduate Heather Stanning has brought the curtain down on a stellar rowing career that saw her win two historic Olympic gold medals. She was also crowned as double World and European Champion after forging an outstanding women’s pair partnership with Helen Glover, with their London 2012 and Rio 2016 successes part of an incredible 39-race unbeaten run stretching back to 2011. Now Stanning – who first picked up an oar when she...
Olympic medallists Heather Stanning, Helen Glover and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor have all been shortlisted in the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year awards for 2016. Sports Technology graduate Stanning and women’s pair partner Glover, who both learnt to row at the University of Bath with the GB Rowing Team Start programme, are in contention for both Vitality Team of the Year and Olympian of the Year. They made history once again this summer as they became...
A host of Rio 2016 Paralympic Games medallists, including Britain’s Lucy Shuker and Alfie Hewett, will join reigning Grand Slam champions in a star-studded Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament being staged at the University of Bath next week. Two-time Paralympian and Sports Performance graduate Louise Hunt will also return to her former training base for the prestigious ITF-1 level competition, organised by the Tennis Foundation and taking place on the eight indoor courts at the Sports Training...
Seven Rio Olympic and Paralympic track and field stars based at the University of Bath have been selected by British Athletics for the Olympic and Paralympic World Class Performance Programmes (WCPP) in 2016-17. Rising star David King, a Sports Performance graduate and ambassador for Team Bath’s partners MJ Church, is also among the 118 elite athletes who will receive support from the National Lottery-funded WCPP during the season ahead. Paul Blake – coached by Rob...
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold will make her return to international competition in December after being named in the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) World Cup squads for the 2016-17 season. Joining Yarnold on the skeleton circuit will be emerging talent Jack Thomas and the experienced duo of Laura Deas and University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student Dom Parsons, who is supported by the Team Bath Dual Career programme. Lamin Deen, Brad Hall, Bruce Tasker...
The thriving partnership between the University of Bath and British Swimming was celebrated at the Sports Training Village on Friday as athletes, coaches and staff gathered to reflect on another outstanding year of success in the pool. Rio 2016 Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn were among members of the British Swimming National Centre Bath squad who joined Team Bath staff for a special ‘thank you’ breakfast in the Sports Café. The...
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic medalists received a heroes’ welcome on Wednesday when they celebrated their stunning summer of sporting success with students and staff at the University of Bath. Six Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes who train at the University’s world-class Sports Training Village – athletes Paul Blake, Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle plus swimmers Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn – were joined by graduate Heather Stanning, the double rowing Olympic champion,...
Pentathlon GB’s Jamie Cooke and Samantha Murray narrowly missed out on a podium place after strong performance in the mixed relay at Sunday’s Kremlin Cup in Moscow. In their first appearances since the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the University of Bath-based duo – renowned as two of the best swimmers on the international pentathlon circuit – got off to a storming start by finishing three seconds clear of the field in the pool. Twenty wins...
Rio 2016 Olympians Jamie Cooke and Samantha Murray will head to Moscow this weekend to represent Pentathlon GB in the Kremlin Cup. The University of Bath-based athletes will both be making their debuts in the invitational event, which will see 12 nations competing in a mixed relay on Sunday. Murray, who won Olympic silver at the London 2012 Games, was the highest-placed former medallist in Rio as she finished ninth overall after a strong second...
Rio 2016 may have just finished but the countdown to the next Olympic and Paralympic action is already well under way, with only 500 days to go until the 2018 Winter Games begin in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association, based at the University of Bath, will be looking to build on the success they have enjoyed at the Winter Olympics during the past 14 years. They have won medals in the...
