Five University of Bath students are among the 20-strong squad selected to represent Aquatics GB at the second edition of the European Aquatics U23 Swimming Championships. Making her British debut is Civil Engineering student Niamh Ward (pictured), a member of the Student Performance Sport swimming squad who has won multiple backstroke medals for the University in BUCS competition. Supported in her dual careers by the Team Bath Breakthrough Programme, Ward began her career with the...
Golfer Charlotte Gregory was voted by her fellow students as the University of Bath's Sports Personality of the Year when the 2025 Blues Awards took place at the historic Roman Baths and Pump Room. The Psychology student was presented with her prize by Professor Cassie Wilson, the University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), during the annual celebration of student sport. [caption id="attachment_71828" align="alignright" width="292"] Charlotte Gregory is presented with the Sports Personality of the Year prize...
Silvers for sporting scholars Matthew Ward and Joshua Gammon were among eight medals won by University of Bath-based swimmers at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships in London. Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student Ward (pictured top) was runner-up to Olympic silver-medallist Duncan Scott in the men’s 200m individual medley, the Bill Whiteley Scholar overhauling Evan Jones and Charlie Hutchison in the closing stages of a thrilling final. There were more fireworks in the men’s...
Olympic Champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird are among a 49-strong cohort of University of Bath-based swimmers heading to the London Aquatics Centre for the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025. The first British titles of the LA 2028 Olympic cycle and places in the GB squad for this summer’s World Championships in Singapore will be decided during six days of action, from Tuesday 15th to Sunday 20th April. Triple Olympic gold-medallist Dean, who only returned...
Reigning Olympic champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird plus a quartet of sporting scholars are among the eight University of Bath-based swimmers confirmed on Aquatics GB’s World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2025 season. Bird and triple Olympic champion Dean, who both won men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold for Team GB at Paris 2024, are joined on the Podium tier by Bath Performance Centre training partners Jacob Peters and Jacob Whittle. The Podium Potential athletes...
It was a historic weekend for University of Bath sporting scholar Ranjuo Tomblin as he won two breakthrough gold medals for Britain at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup season opener in Paris. The Sports Performance student, who is supported by a Trendell Sporting Scholarship, became the first British male to win a World Cup medal when he came out on top in a supremely contested Men’s Tech Solo competition, with less than a...
University of Bath student-athletes won 21 medals, including gold in the swimming pool and on the athletics track, when they proudly represented The SU Bath at the BUCS Nationals 2025 in Sheffield. Sixteen of those medals were secured by the University’s swimming squad during an excellent weekend which saw them place third in the overall rankings. Alumni Fund Sporting Scholar Josh Gammon led the way with gold in both the 50m butterfly (23.72) and 200m...
Olympic swimming coach David McNulty MBE has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Bath, the institution where he has delivered his globally-renowned training programme for the past 17 years. [caption id="attachment_71422" align="alignright" width="292"] Cassie Wilson (Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience)) confers an Honorary Degree on swimming coach David McNulty at Bath Abbey. PICTURES: Tim Gander[/caption] The honour was conferred by Cassie Wilson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), during a Winter Graduation Ceremony at Bath Abbey on Wednesday....
Olympic and Paralympic success in Paris is just one of the highlights of a truly monumental year of sport at the University of Bath. World Cup victories, European crowns, groundbreaking international debuts, emotional reunions, national accolades, innovative new partnerships and an extensive gym refurbishment are also among the many high points from an action-packed 2024. In total athletes brought 93 senior international medals back to their Team Bath training base, 17 of which were secured...
Freya Anderson added to her international medal collection when the University of Bath-based swimming star anchored Aquatics GB to women’s 4x100m medley relay silver at the 2024 World Aquatics Short Course Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The Bath Performance Centre swimmer (pictured top, right) dived in for the freestyle leg in third place after strong swims from team-mates Abbie Wood, Angharad Evans and Eva Okaro. She then clawed back China in the closing stages to touch...
