A magnificent seven University of Bath students and graduates are heading to Taipei to represent Great Britain at the World University Games, taking place from August 19-30. Three coaches and a physio are also part of the British Universities & Colleges Sports [BUCS] support staff for the world’s second-biggest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games, featuring almost 10,000 athletes from more than 170 countries. Defending gold-medallist Jay Lelliott, an ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ...
University of Bath-based swimmers won five medals, including one of each colour for James Guy, as Great Britain enjoyed a successful 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest. Nineteen medals, five of them gold, were also secured during an excellent week at the British Swimming Summer Championships in Sheffield. Guy’s first medal of a busy week in Budapest was one to savour as he and British Swimming National Centre Bath team-mate Calum Jarvis successfully defended the...
Stephanie Millward set the qualifying time for this year’s World Para-Swimming Championships during an excellent opening day for University of Bath-based swimmers at the 2017 British Swimming Summer Championships in Sheffield. The double Rio 2016 Paralympic champion, who trains in the London 2012 Legacy Pool, won her mixed-classification 400m freestyle final with a total of 892 points and a time of 4:51.11, which was within the consideration standard for the Mexico-bound World Championship team. Millward’s...
Four defending champions will be among the University of Bath-based swimmers competing at the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary next week. James Guy, Calum Jarvis, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn of the British Swimming National Centre Bath will all be hoping to repeat their golden achievements from the 2015 Championships in Kazan, Russia. Thomas Tsiopanis, who recently graduated in Sports Performance and is supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship, will make his World Championships...
Hundreds of youngsters from across the South West demonstrated their sporting skills in the inspirational surroundings of the University of Bath Sports Training Village (STV) on Wednesday as they competed in the Summer School Games. Pupils from Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucester who had qualified through previous competitions took part in the annual event, which was organised by the West of England Sports Trust (Wesport). They made full use...
Mike Taylor has joined the world-class coaching staff at the British Swimming National Centre based at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Taylor, who began his coaching career with the City of Sheffield, will work alongside David McNulty and Jol Finck with a training group that includes Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy. “When I saw there was an opportunity to work with British Swimming, I was very excited...
University of Bath students Anna Hopkin and Jay Lelliott have been named in a 16-strong British swimming squad for the 2017 World University Games in Chinese Taipei. It will be Lelliott’s second experience of the world’s second-biggest multi-sport competition after the Olympic Games – he also competed in 2015, winning 400m freestyle gold and 800m freestyle silver. Sports Performance student Lelliott is supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship and is also a sporting ambassador for...
The Team Bath AS swimming squad proved they are a force to be reckoned with at the regional Age Group Championships as they took three golds, 12 silvers and 12 bronze medals across four days of competition at Hengrove and Millfield. In the opening event our 12yr boys kicked off with a 3,4,5 in the 400m Freestyle with Max Adams claiming bronze and Oliver Saunders (4th) and Olly Watts (5th) following him home; only to...
National Centre swimmers James Guy and Jessica Fullalove won four medals at the Japan Open Swimming Championships in Tokyo, Japan over the weekend in an encouraging preparation for this summer's World Championships. On the back of an intense nine-day training block in Thailand, Guy won his third medal of the Open with gold in the men’s 100m butterfly with a new personal best time of 51.50. The performance followed a gold-medal winning swim in the 400m...
University of Bath-based swimmer James Guy continued his preparations for this summer's World Championships by equalling his 200m butterfly personal best at the Japan Open in Tokyo, the 2020 Olympic Host City. The Rio 2016 Olympic medallist, coached by Jol Finck and Dave McNulty at the British Swimming National Centre Bath, won bronze in 1:55.91 - despite still being in heavy training after an intense nine-day block at a preparation camp in Thailand. “That was...
