It was a busy but highly-rewarding week of artistic swimming at the 2022 FINA World Aquatics Championships for University of Bath sporting scholars Kate Shortman and Daniella Lloyd. Shortman, who studies International Management and Modern Languages and is supported by a Bill Whiteley Scholarship, competed in five finals across the week in Budapest. She scored 85.1632 to finish seventh in the Tech Solo, her best-ever individual result on the Worlds stage, before teaming up with...
Tom Dean completed a hat-trick of bronze medals as he and fellow University of Bath-based swimmers James Guy and Jacob Peters helped British Swimming end the 2022 FINA World Aquatics Championships on a high note. The last event of a busy week in Budapest saw Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholar Dean hold off a strong challenge from Australia’s Kyle Chalmers on the freestyle leg to anchor the men’s 4x100m medley relay quartet of Luke Greenbank, James...
Tom Dean won his second medal of the week and James Guy took his international medal tally to 32 as they helped British Swimming claim 4x200m freestyle relay bronze at the FINA World Championships in Budapest. Fellow University of Bath-based swimmer Matt Richards also received a medal after playing his part in securing a place for the GB team in Thursday’s final with a strong swim in the heats. Guy produced a solid opening leg...
University of Bath-based swimming star Tom Dean secured the first FINA World Championships medal of his career after taking bronze in a thrilling 200m freestyle final in Budapest on Monday. The Olympic Champion, coached by David McNulty at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, went out at world-record pace and was almost a body-length clear of the field after clocking 48.91 during an explosive first 100m. Romania’s David Popovici and South Korea’s Sunwoo Hwang managed...
After enjoying a golden Olympic Games last summer, swimmers based at the University of Bath are raring to take on the world again as they begin an action-packed two months of international competition. Six members of the British Swimming Performance Centre Bath squad – including Tokyo 2020 gold-medallists Freya Anderson, Tom Dean, James Guy and Matt Richards – are competing at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 17th June to 3rd July....
They were Olympic gold-medal swimming team-mates in the 4x200m freestyle relay in Tokyo a year ago, now they’re wrapped in the flag of the Welsh dragon and heading together to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Matt Richards and Calum Jarvis (pictured right and left of James Guy during the Tokyo Olympics) were named today in a 20-strong Welsh swimming team for the Games. They will be joined in the Midlands in July by Kieran Bird,...
Team Bath, the sports department for the University of Bath, is delighted to announce a new three-year partnership with Bath Building Society. The link-up between two of the city’s most recognised brands, both within the local community and nationally, will see Bath Building Society support sport and fitness at all levels within Team Bath – student, recreational and high-performance. It will also provide additional backing to the Team Bath Netball Superleague team, the University of...
Seven more University of Bath-based swimmers, including Olympic gold-medallists James Guy (pictured) and Freya Anderson, have been added to the Team England squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Holly Hibbott, Ed Mildred, Jacob Peters, Luke Turley and Brodie Williams are also among the 38 swimmers confirmed today as joining the previously-selected Tom Dean and Ben Proud in the home team for this summer’s Games. University of Bath graduate Jay Lelliott will also make his...
Seven University of Bath-based swimmers, including four Olympic gold-medallists, have been named in the British Swimming squad for this summer's FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Double Olympic champions Tom Dean and James Guy are joined in the 23-strong team by fellow Tokyo 2020 gold-medallists Freya Anderson and Matt Richards, plus Olympians Jacob Peters and Brodie Williams. All are part of the hugely-successful British Swimming National Centre Bath squad, based at the Team Bath...
There were five golds, including a 20th national title for James Guy and a world-leading time for Ben Proud, among an impressive haul of 26 medals for University of Bath-based swimmers during the 2022 British Swimming Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. Guy achieved his milestone in a men’s 100m butterfly final that featured four Bath-based swimmers in the top six, the double Olympic champion holding off British Swimming National Centre Bath team-mate Jacob Peters (51.93)...