The student-exclusive Sports Pass is part of the sports experience for all University of Bath students. It allows access to a host of facilities at the Team Bath Sports Training Village including our London 2012 Legacy Swimming Pool; tennis, squash and badminton courts; athletics track; astro pitches; and indoor sports hall. Holding a Sports Pass also gives holders access to dedicated student participation times, priority booking opportunities and coaching/guidance from the knowledgable coaches on campus. Activating your sports pass...
Olympic gold-medallist Amy Williams says it is important for children to enjoy sport and get active from a young age after becoming the first-ever Ambassador for Team Bath Tribe. Amy has a close personal connection to the youth sport programme, whose new term of activities start today (11th September), with her two young sons among the hundreds of children who take part in a wide range of sporting activities each week in the inspirational surroundings...
University of Bath student Jono Adam and training partner Ed Mildred won five medals between them, including three gold, at the inaugural LEN European U23 Swimming Championships in Dublin. Adam, who studies Sports Performance, was the first European home in the men’s 50m backstroke final on Saturday, touching the wall in 25.12 to edge out Greece’s Evangelos Makrygiannis by one-hundredth of a second. He repeated the feat in Sunday’s 100m backstroke final, again finishing runner-up...
Suzanna Hext won her second medal of the Manchester 2023 Allianz Para Swimming World Championships on Sunday as she added S5 100m freestyle silver to her 50m gold. Hext, who does her strength and conditioning training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, was leading until the closing 25m when Italy’s Monica Boggioni – the newly-crowned 200m freestyle champion – came through to take gold. Having been in hospital until just 48 hours before the World Championships began,...
Suzanna Hext won British Swimming’s first medal of the Manchester 2023 Allianz Para Swimming World Championships in magnificent style as she surged to S5 50m freestyle gold. Hext, who does her strength and conditioning training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, touched the wall first in a new personal best time of 36.71, beating Ukraine’s Iryna Poida to gold by two-hundredths of a second. “It’s an honour to get the Great Britain team going,”...
Freya Anderson and University of Bath alumna Anna Hopkin helped British Swimming secure their final medal of the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatic Championships in record-breaking style. After narrowly missing out on the podium in the women’s 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays, British Swimming Performance Centre Bath athlete Anderson anchored the mixed 4x100m freestyle quartet to a bronze medal in 3:21.68, a new British and European record. It was Britain’s first-ever World Championships medal in the...
Kieran Bird and Joshua Gammon won double gold and Jemima Hall claimed a medal of each colour as University of Bath-based swimmers enjoyed an excellent British Summer Championships 2023 in Sheffield. British Swimming Performance Centre Bath swimmer Bird claimed victory in both the 200m freestyle (1:48.87) and 400m freestyle (3:53.24) at Ponds Forge, while Sports Performance student Gammon stormed to butterfly gold over 50m (23.53) and 100m (52.20). He narrowly missed out on a hat-trick...
University of Bath-based Tom Dean and James Guy added World Championships gold to their men’s 4x200m freestyle relay Olympic title with stunning performances for British Swimming in Fukuoka, Japan. Friday’s success saw Dean, a Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholar at the University, complete a full house of medals this week, adding to his individual 200m freestyle silver and 200m individual medley bronze. After strong opening legs from Duncan Scott and Matt Richards, who were also in...
The countdown is on for athletes who train or study at the University of Bath as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are now just a year away. They will be determined to have secured their place on the biggest sporting stage of all when the Olympic flame is lit in front of the Trocadero on Friday 26th July 2024 following a unique opening ceremony taking place on the River Seine. Two athletes have already achieved...
University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman was overwhelmed after securing Great Britain’s first-ever Artistic Swimming World Championship medal with a history-making performance in Fukuoka, Japan. The Bill Whiteley Scholar won bronze in the Women’s Solo Free competition on Wednesday with a superbly-executed routine which earned her 219.9542 points, only beaten by home favourite Yukiko Inui and Austria’s Vasiliki Alexandri. Shortman, who studies International Management and Modern Languages (French), said: "I can't even put it...
