Triathlete Vicky Holland and swimmers Chloe Tutton and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor took the medal tally for University of Bath-based sportspeople at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games to seven after another busy day of competition in Australia. Holland, coached by Rhys Davey in the multi-sport facilities at the Sports Training Village, helped England secure mixed team relay silver. Tutton then won Wales’ first medal in the pool at these Games, bronze in the 200m breaststroke, before...
University of Bath-based swimmer James Guy claimed his second medal of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games as he helped Team England to silver in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Friday. The British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer anchored the quartet – which also featured David Cumberlidge, Ben Proud and Jarvis Parkinson – to second place behind hosts Australia. It was Guy’s second final of the night, having narrowly missed out on a medal...
University of Bath-based swimmers James Guy, Anna Hopkin and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor all bagged bronze medals on the first day of competition at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer Guy, coached by Jol Finck at the Sports Training Village, went out hard in his 400m freestyle final before digging deep in the closing stages to finish third behind Australians Mack Horton and Jack McLoughlin. Fellow National Centre Bath swimmer O’Connor...
Eleven swimmers based at the University of Bath will be competing at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, with the first of six days of racing getting under way at 1.31am BST on Thursday. Among those taking part are eight members of the highly-successful British Swimming National Centre Bath, who are coached by Dave McNulty and Jol Finck in the London 2012 Legacy Pool at the Sports Training Village. Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, James Guy, Andrew Willis...
University of Bath-based sportspeople Eilidh Doyle and Jazz Carlin has been named as flag bearers, for Team Scotland and Team Wales respectively, for Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Hurdler Doyle, a double Commonwealth silver-medallist, will become Scotland's first-ever female flag bearer after being chosen by her fellow team members to lead the country into the Carrara Stadium. "I'm so over the moon," said Doyle, who is coached by Brian Doyle at the...
The University of Bath student swimming squad will once again be represented on the global stage when Anna Hopkin and Miles Munro compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Both combine their studies – in Sport & Exercise Science and Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering respectively – with an intensive but supportive training programme at the University’s world-renowned Sports Training Village, using the Olympic-sized London 2012 Legacy Pool and the state-of-the-art Team Bath Gym....
After missing out on a medal by just six-hundredths of a second at Rio 2016, swimmer Chloe Tutton – the latest Olympian to move her training base to the University of Bath – is determined to get on the podium when she races at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games next week. The 21-year-old, who joined the renowned British Swimming National Centre Bath training group last month, is one of 11 University-based swimmers who will...
Team Bath AS raised the roof on Friday night as coaches, parents, swimmers, friends and families united to stage a Dream Team Relay to raise more than £700 for Sport Relief. The Dream Team was made up of Head Coach Chris Alderton, former GB swimmer Tilly Gray and the team’s Strength and Conditioning Coach, Mike Muckelt. One squad swimmer was also recruited to the Dream Team via a draw, with the lucky swimmer on the...
Team Bath AS swimmer Laura McNab has once again been selected to represent Great Britain at the European Junior Championships, this year taking place in Helsinki, Finland from July 4-8. It is Laura’s third opportunity to represent her country, with her selection following success at the British Championships in Edinburgh earlier this month. At the event, Laura won the Junior 200m freestyle title and made the Senior 100m freestyle final, finishing an impressive sixth against...
Olympic legend Dame Katherine Grainger was the guest of honour when the University of Bath hosted the UK's first Commonwealth Big Lunch this week. The event doubled as a rousing send-off for the 30 University-based sportspeople who will be competing at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and a chance to welcome skeleton bronze-medallist Laura Deas back to her home training base after her PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games heroics. TeamBathTV caught up with Dame Katherine,...
