It is the groundbreaking talent identification and development scheme that set double Olympic Champions Heather Stanning and Helen Glover on their way to becoming two of Britain’s greatest-ever sportswomen. Now the GB Rowing Team Start Programme based at the University of Bath has an exciting, ambitious group of emerging rowers keen to follow in their wake as attention turns to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and beyond. Training and racing alongside students in the University...
Outstanding success at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games plus the visit of sporting and actual royalty ensured that the University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style during 2016. When the University received Royal Charter status on October 25, 1966, there were no sporting facilities on the Claverton Down campus. Five decades later, it has developed into what Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley believes is “the most vibrant, exciting and dynamic sporting...
Heather Stanning, the British Army officer and double Olympic Champion who learnt to row and was nurtured into the British team whilst studying at the University of Bath, has won a national award. She and Olympic rowing partner Helen Glover, who were coached in Bath by Paul Stannard as part of the GB Rowing Team Start programme, scooped the President’s Award in the annual, national Sports Journalists’ Association poll. They received their trophy from Patrick...
Three rowers from the University of Bath's renowned rowing Start programme picked up four medals - including three golds - at the British Rowing Indoor Championships on Saturday (Dec. 10). 16-year old Jens Hullah, who rows with the junior GB Rowing Team, won gold in the junior men's 2,000m event. The medal was Hullah's second in two years at the event after he set a new British Y11 junior boy’s record at last year's competition and...
The depth of talent among student athletes at the University of Bath has been demonstrated once again after 22 potential stars of the future were awarded sporting scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year. Competing in sports as diverse as alpine skiing, clay pigeon shooting, modern pentathlon and rowing, all have demonstrated their potential to succeed both academically and on the national and international sporting stage. Among those selected are Team Bath Netball and England U21...
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...
Steph Clutterbuck and Laetitia Tay brought home a trophy as the University of Bath Boat Club produced some impressive performances at the British Rowing Senior Championships in Nottingham over the weekend. Tay and Clutterbuck won the University Shield category in the women’s double scull on Saturday before teaming up with fellow student Laura Macro and Sport & Exercise Science graduate Sam Courty to win the B final and finish seventh overall in the quadruple scull...
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,...
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic medallists are among the University of Bath-based athletes and alumni shortlisted for this year’s Bath Chronicle Sports Awards. Paul Blake, who won gold and silver at the Paralympic Games, is in the running for Disability Sports Performer of the Year along with training partner Sophie Kamlish, who set a new world record in Rio – both are coached by Rob Ellchuk at the Sports Training Village. Also shortlisted are badminton player...
