News Archive, Category: Olympic & Paralympic

A picture of Paralympic Games swimmer Suzanna Hext and her hearing dog, Kimmy, at the Team Bath Sports Training Village swimming pool where she does some of her training

Swimmer Suzanna Hext is first athlete who trains at University of Bath to be selected for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

20 May 2024

With exactly 100 days to go until this summer’s Paralympic Games begin, swimmer Suzanna Hext has today become the first athlete who trains at the University of Bath to be selected by ParalympicsGB for Paris 2024. The reigning World Champion, who will be competing at her second Games after making her debut in Tokyo, does her strength and conditioning training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) with the UK Sports Institute (UKSI). A...

Izzy Thorpe and University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman have been selected to represent Team GB in artistic swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. CREDIT: Team GB

Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman officially selected in Team GB artistic swimming squad for Paris 2024 Olympic Games

14 May 2024

University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman has today been officially selected to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer. It will be a second Games for artistic swimmer Shortman and duet partner Izzy Thorpe, following their debuts at Tokyo 2020, and they will head to Paris this August after winning multiple breakthrough medals during the past 12 months. The duo, who train in Bristol, achieved the Paris qualification standard in...

Pentathlon GB's Jess Varley (left) won silver in the women's final at the UIPM World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria, in May 2024. CREDIT: UIPM World Pentathlon / Nuno Gonçalves

Pentathlon GB’s Jess Varley delighted to back on the podium after a tough year with superb silver at UIPM World Cup in Sofia

12 May 2024

University of Bath alumna Jess Varley was delighted to put a difficult 12 months behind her and keep her Olympic dreams alive by winning a superb silver at the UIPM Pentathlon World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pentathlon GB team-mate Emma Whitaker finished just outside the medals and Kate French placed 13th in a fiercely-fought women’s final, while Myles Pillage was 12th in the men’s final. All the athletes needed strong performances as they sought to...

A montage picture of University of Bath swimmers (from left) Joshua Gammon, Ed Mildred, Jack Skerry and Matthew Ward who have been selected to represent Aquatics GB at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade

University of Bath student swimmers selected for senior Great Britain debuts at European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade

08 May 2024

University of Bath students Joshua Gammon and Jack Skerry will both make their Great Britain senior long-course swimming debuts in June after being selected for the European Aquatics Championships. They are joined in a youthful 10-strong Aquatics GB squad by Bath Performance Centre duo Ed Mildred and Matthew Ward, both coached by David McNulty at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. Santander Sporting Scholar Leah Crisp will also be heading to Belgrade to contest the...

“I am so happy!” Bath sporting scholar Aleeya Sibbons anchors British quartet to bronze at World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24

06 May 2024

University of Bath sporting scholar Aleeya Sibbons anchored Great Britain & Northern Ireland to a brilliant bronze in the women’s 4x100m at the World Athletics Relays Bahamas 24. The Architecture student produced a storming last leg to bring the quartet – also featuring Alyson Bell, Amy Hunt and Bianca Williams – home in third in 42.80 behind the United States and France. Hunt, Williams, Asha Philip and Imani-Lara Lansiquot had secured Britain’s qualification for the...

Kate Shortman (left) and Izzy Thorpe won Duet Technical gold at the Artistic Swimming World Cup staged at the new Olympics Aquatics Centre in Paris in May 2024. CREDIT: Nick Hope.

Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman and artistic swimming partner Izzy Thorpe strike gold at Paris 2024 Olympic Test Event

05 May 2024

University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman enjoyed another moment of history as she and artistic swimming partner Izzy Thorpe claimed gold in the first Olympic discipline to be contested at the new Olympic Aquatics Centre in Paris. The duo followed up their breakthrough silver and bronze medals at this year’s World Aquatics Championships in Doha by winning the Technical Duet title in the second leg of the Artistic Swimming World Cup, which doubled as...

Pentathlon GB's Kerenza Bryson won gold at the UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Ankara, Turkey on 20th April 2024. MUST CREDIT: UIPM World Pentathlon / Théo Kine

Phenomenal fencing provides foundations for dominant pentathlon performance as Kerenza Bryson wins World Cup gold in Ankara

22 April 2024

Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza Bryson built on her best-ever fencing performance to claim the second UIPM World Cup gold of her career with a stunning performance in Ankara, Turkey. The University of Bath-based pentathlete, who had won bronze in the opening World Cup of the Paris 2024 Olympic season, was in magnificent form in the fencing ranking round as she won 27 of her 35 bouts. [caption id="attachment_70396" align="alignright" width="292"] Kerenza Bryson showed tremendous equestrian skills...

(From left) Tom Dean, Jacob Whittle, Kieran Bird, Leah Crisp and Freya Anderson, who all train at the University of Bath, have been selected to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. They are pictured at their Team Bath Sports Training Village training base.

Gold medallists and sporting scholar among fantastic five University of Bath-based swimmers selected by Team GB for Paris 2024 Olympic Games

16 April 2024

Swimmers Freya Anderson, Kieran Bird, Leah Crisp, Tom Dean and Jacob Whittle have today become the first University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected by Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. All five are members of the Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre squad, coached by David McNulty and Jamie Main at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, and Anderson and Dean are heading to Paris as reigning Olympic gold-medallists. Freestylers Bird and...

The University of Bath was officially presented with UK Sport Elite Training Centre-accredited status during a ceremony at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on 12th April 2024. (From left) Professor Ian White (University of Bath Vice-Chancellor), Sally Munday (UK Sport Chief Executive), Duncan Rolley (UK Sport Elite Training Centre Advisor), Sophie Hamer (Head of Sport Operations), Stephen Baddeley (University of Bath Director of Sport) and Cassie Wilson (University of Bath Pro-Vice-Chancellor). CREDIT: Nic Delves-Broughton

Olympians and Paralympians in attendance as University of Bath is officially recognised as UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre

12 April 2024

The University of Bath’s status as a UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre (ETC) has been officially recognised at a ceremony attended by Olympic and Paralympic Champions, high-performance coaches and staff. Professor Ian White, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, received the prestigious ETC award from Sally Munday, Chief Executive of UK Sport, during a presentation in the Team Bath Sports Training Village. Joining Team Bath staff at the ceremony were athletes, coaches and administrators from...

University of Bath-based Tom Dean (right) won 200m freestyle bronze at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships and Paris 2024 Olympic Games Trials

Paris 2024 nomination times achieved as University of Bath swimmers win 11 medals at Aquatics GB Championships and Trials

08 April 2024

Olympic Champion Tom Dean and Paralympian Suzanna Hext both recorded Paris 2024 nomination times when University of Bath-based swimmers contested the Speedo Aquatics GB Swimming Championships in London. University of Bath Swimming Club’s Ben Proud also booked his place at a third Olympic Games in fine style, while Tokyo gold-medallist Anna Hopkin is heading to her second after a double title success for the Bath alumna. There were also gold medals for Team Bath Dual...

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