More than 8,000 people enjoyed an action-packed day of family fun when the University of Bath celebrated its 50th anniversary by staging its first-ever community Festival. There were activities across the Claverton Down campus, including the Active Zone at the £30million Sports Training Village where visitors got to try out 15 different sports and take on a Mini Olympics challenge. Team Bath Netball Superleague stars Shantal Slater and Vangelee Williams staged a shooting challenge and...
England hockey international Peter Scott was named as the University of Bath’s Sports Personality of the Year at a Blues Awards ceremony attended by HRH The Earl of Wessex. Sports Performance student Scott, a Trendell Sports Scholar who made his senior England debut in March, topped a poll of Students’ Union Sport members from a shortlist that also included tennis player Emma Hurst and judoka Jan Gosiewski and Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz. Scott was presented with his...
Seven-times Paralympic swimming champion Sascha Kindred returned to his former training base today to be inducted into the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport. It was while training at the University that Kindred won the first two of his Paralympic gold medals at the Sydney 2000 Games – one of the key moments, he believes, in a stellar international career that started in 1994 and concluded with a world-record triumph at Rio 2016....
Team Bath AS swimmer Laura McNab has been selected to represent Great Britain at the LEN European Junior Championships in Netanya, Israel, from June 28 to July 2. The Royal High School pupil earned her place in the 37-strong squad after producing stunning performances in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle junior finals at the recent British Swimming Championships in Sheffield, where she and club colleagues Ben Lawton, Charlie Head and Stella Cookson rubbed shoulders...
Five University of Bath-based swimmers have been selected 29-stong British Swimming team for this summer’s FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, James Guy, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn will be joined by fellow National Centre Bath swimmer Calum Jarvis (pictured), a Sports Performance graduate. All five were medallists at the last World Championships in Russia two years ago, with Guy, Jarvis, O’Connor and Walker-Hebborn all winning gold. Coaches Dave McNulty and Jol...
James Guy brought the curtain down on a successful 2017 British Swimming Championships by winning his fourth gold and an eighth title of the week for University of Bath-based swimmers. Double Olympic medallist Guy, who moved his training base to the National Centre Bath in January, went stroke for stroke with Duncan Scott in a thrilling 200m freestyle final before touching the wall first in 1:44.55. That was the third time this week he had...
University of Bath student Anna Hopkin celebrated her upcoming 21st birthday in style by winning 50m freestyle gold at the 2017 British Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Hopkin, who studies Sport & Exercise Science, set a new personal best of 25.07 as she beat Olympic silver-medallist and fellow Sports Training Village-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor to the sprint title on Thursday. “It feels amazing, it’s a really great feeling,” said Hopkin, who is part of Mark Skimming’s...
Olympic medallists Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy won their second titles in as many days as University of Bath-based swimmers continued to impress at the 2017 British Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Jazz Carlin, who won two silvers at Rio 2016, also picked up her first gold of the week as the British Swimming National Centre Bath elite training group added to their national medal collection. Guy (pictured), who moved to the Sports Training Village at...
HRH Prince Harry returned to the University of Bath Sports Training Village today (Friday) to watch and support hundreds of athletes competing in trials for the 2017 Invictus Games. The Invictus Games Foundation Patron joined the crowds cheering on track and field athletes and rowers as they looked to earn their place in the UK team for this year’s Games in Toronto, Canada. Prince Harry also met with the serving and veteran servicemen and women...
Italian-born Ilaria Brandimarte was just nine years old when she first became a synchronised swimming national champion. Since then, she has gone on to win an outstanding haul of senior national championships medals, including seven at the 2015 ASA National Championships, and is in the process of gaining a British passport in order to be involved with GB Synchro. But for now, her attention is turned to establishing Team Bath Synchro Club - the first...
