University of Bath-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor landed an impressive four gold medals at the Berlin International Swimming Meet. The British Gas GBR National Performance Centre Bath swimmer set personal bests to win golds in the 200m individual medley, 50m butterfly, 100m butterfly and 100m freestyle. Bath swimmers were in stunning form at the competition, with Lizzie Simmonds and Chris Walker-Hebborn both claiming double gold. Simmonds won golds in the 100m and 200m backstroke, while Walker-Hebborn...
University of Bath-based swimmers rounded off the European Short Course Championships in impressive style as they won seven of the eight medals collected by the British team. Michael Jamieson, Jemma Lowe, Chris Walker-Hebborn and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, who all train at British Swimming’s British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre, each collected medals over the weekend. They added to the trio of medals already won during the short course championships at Herning in Denmark by O’Connor, Lowe...
University of Bath-based swimmers won all three of Britain’s medals on the opening day of the European Short Course Championships in Denmark yesterday (Thursday). Eighteen-year-old Siobhan-Marie O’Connor won silver in the 200m individual medley with a personal best of 2:06.73 at the championships in Herning with training partner Sophie Allen taking bronze. And moments later fellow British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC) swimmer Jemma Lowe won bronze medal in the women’s 200m butterfly. London...
Four athletes who have won medals at world level competitions are the winners of the latest Team Bath athlete of the month awards. University of Bath-based triathlete Nicole Walters guided visually-impaired athlete Melissa Reid to gold at the World Paratriathlon Championships in London. Walters, who has a Sport and Exercise Science degree from the University of Bath, wins the women’s award for September. Ghanaian judo player Emmanuel Nartey takes the men’s award for September after...
The University features strongly in plans unveiled today by British Swimming. Its Sports Training Village has been named as one of only two national centres for the sport in Great Britain as it continues to prepare for the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The British Gas GBR National Centre for Swimming at University of Bath will become a performance hub for the sport from the beginning of the new year. The centre will grow...
University of Bath-based athletes landed many of the top honours at the annual Bath Chronicle Sports Awards ceremony, with Stephanie Millward, Paul Blake and Team Bath’s Superleague netballers among the winners of major awards. Paralympic swimmer Stephanie Millward was named winner of the coveted sports personality of the year award at last night’s (Wednesday) ceremony at Bath Racecourse. It came after another impressive year that saw the Aquae Sulis Performance Swimming Club member, who trains...
University of Bath-based swimmer Lizzie Simmonds struck gold at the final FINA World Cup event of the year. Lizzie, who trains at the British Swimming Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC), took gold in the 50m backstroke in the Beijing 2008 Olympic pool today (Wednesday). The in-form swimmer followed that up with 200m backstroke bronze. It was a decent day for Bath ITC swimmers, with both Sophie Allen and Michael Jamieson also in the medals. Sophie...
University of Bath-based swimmer Lizzie Simmonds landed three medals and an English record at the penultimate leg of the 2013 FINA World Cup in Tokyo. Simmonds, who is based at British Swimming’s Bath Intensive Training Centre, broke her own English short course record to take silver in the 50m backstroke. She followed that up with another silver in the 200m backstroke and then 100m backstroke bronze. Her medals came just three days after a haul...
University of Bath-based swimmers Lizzie Simmonds and Sophie Allen added to their World Cup medal hauls with another medal each in Singapore today (Wednesday). Lizzie, who trains at the British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre at the University of Bath, completed a hat-trick of medals in Singapore by adding the 100m backstroke bronze to the two silvers she won yesterday (Tuesday). She came within a second of her British record as she touched in 57.58...
University of Bath-based Lizzie Simmonds broke her English short course 50m Backstroke record as four Brits claimed medals on day one of the Singapore leg of the 2013 FINA World Cup series. The British Gas ITC Bath swimmer clocked 26.85 to slice 0.03 off her previous best from the 2008 European Short Course Championships and claim silver behind Australia’s Emily Seebohm (26.70). Simmonds scooped a second silver in the 200m Backstroke, clocking 2:03.30 to finish...
