Skeleton athletes Brogan Crowley, Laura Deas, Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have today become the first University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected by Team GB for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. It is a second Games for Deas, who won bronze behind champion and compatriot Lizzy Yarnold at PyeongChang 2018, while Crowley, Weston and Wyatt will all be making their Olympic debuts when the skeleton events take place from 10-12 February. Deas...
British Bobsleigh’s Brad Hall and his four-man crew finished the 2021-22 IBSF World Cup season in a career-high fourth place in the overall rankings after another strong showing in St Moritz on Sunday. Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Nick Gleeson and Greg Cackett clocked the fourth fastest start time in each run as they set a combined time of 2:09.97 for eighth place in the final race of the World Cup season in Switzerland. It means it...
British Bobsleigh got a new Winter Olympic Games year off to a superb start when they won three silver medals as the IBSF World Cup season resumed in Sigulda, Latvia. Brad Hall was runner-up with Greg Cackett in the two-man bobsleigh on New Year’s Day, then repeated the feat with Nick Gleeson on Sunday only a few hours after Mica McNeill and Adele Nicoll had matched them in the women’s race. No British squad has...
An incredible 19 medals at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, 10 of them gold, is the headline stat from an outstanding year of sport at the University of Bath but there was plenty more to celebrate during an unforgettable 2021. From students winning the Premiership Rugby title at Twickenham and conquering the rowing world from their kitchen to Team Bath Netball lifting their first trophy for eight years and tennis players serving up a...
Matt Weston won World Cup skeleton gold in Igls on Friday morning for the country’s first men’s top tier win for nearly 14 years. Weston, who trains with the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association, shared gold with China’s Wenqiang Geng and Germany’s Christian Grotheer after a remarkable race in Austria. The 24-year-old had only eight World Cup appearances to his name prior to today’s competition but he produced a stunning two-run performance...
After a busy and productive summer of training at Team Bath, Israeli skeleton athlete Georgie Cohen is going into the Beijing 2022 season chasing both history for her country and fulfilment for her family’s Olympic legacy. Cohen, who had full-time athlete access to the UK’s only outdoor push-track and other high-performance facilities at the Sports Training Village during the summer with the Israeli Bobsled & Skeleton Team's support, is bidding to become the first female...
University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association athletes Marcus Wyatt, Brad Hall and Greg Cackett enjoyed dream starts to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games season as they won silver at the test event in China today. Skeleton racer Wyatt secured second spot behind Germany’s Alexander Gassner on his very first taste of the Olympic track, clocking a combined time of 2:03.65mins in a strong field that featured all of the major contenders for...
Olympian Jerry Rice has announced his retirement from skeleton after more than eight years with the University of Bath-based British team. Rice, who was the second longest serving member of the squad behind Olympic bronze medalist Laura Deas, finished 10th at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games as he saved arguably his best top-tier performance for the biggest stage of all. The 30-year-old raced 79 times for his country and competed at two World Championships,...
Laura Deas and Matt Weston narrowly missed out on a medal when University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association athletes finished their season at the 2021 IBSF World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. The GB duo repeated their fourth-placed finish from the previous year in the team event, with Deas coming down fifth fastest of the women of 58.99 seconds and Weston recording the third quickest time of the men in 56.99 for a combined...
Six University of Bath-based British Skeleton athletes will be aiming to cap an impressive 2020-21 season when they compete in the showpiece competition of the year – the IBSF World Championships which start in Altenberg, Germany on Thursday. The GB men’s trio of Craig Thompson, Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have all stood on the podium during the recently concluded World Cup campaign, while Olympic bronze-medallist Laura Deas leads the challenge for the British women...
