University of Bath based athletes across a range of sports face a big week of action as they aim to pursue their Olympic dreams. Swimmers based at Team Bath have their next opportunity to qualify berths on the GB Olympic team when they compete at the British Gas ASA Nationals in Sheffield. The Nationals get underway tomorrow (Wednesday) and conclude on Saturday (23 June). Some 37 GB athletes – including the Bath-based trio of Michael...
University of Bath Swimming Club swimmer Liz Johnson has had her place on the British team to compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games confirmed. Liz, who struck gold at Beijing in 2008, was initially named on a list of 26 British swimmers whose participation at the Games was subject to confirmation by the International Paralympic Committee of the number of swimming slots available. Liz is currently training in Manchester in the lead-up to the...
Team Bath swimmer Liz Johnson has moved a step closer to her goal of competing at her third successive Paralympic Games. Liz, gold medallist in the SB6 100m breaststroke at the Beijing 2008 Games, just missed out on achieving a qualifying time for the Games at the British International Disability Swimming Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. That meant she wasn’t on the 16-strong list of swimmers already selected by the British Paralympic Association for...
British 200m breaststroke record holder Kris Gilchrist has announced his retirement from competitive swimming. Gilchrist, a former world short course champion who has trained at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre (ITC) Bath at the Universtiy of Bath for the last 18 months, first competed internationally in 2006, winning bronze medals at the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games for Scotland. He went on to become 200m breaststroke World Short Course Champion in 2008 and...
Swimmers Michael Jamieson, Stacey Tadd and Andrew Willis are the first University of Bath-based athletes to be named in the Great Britain team to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The trio will all make their Olympic debuts at London 2012 and won their places on the team with their performances at the British Championships, held at the London 2012 Aquatics Centre last week. University of Bath students Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis (pictured...
Stacey Tadd became the third University of Bath-based swimmer to achieve an Olympic qualifying standard at the British Championships when she took gold in the 200m breaststroke at the 2012 Aquatics Centre last night. Tadd knew she had to set a personal best to achieve the Olympic qualifying standard – and she did it in style, holding off a strong challenge from Molly Renshaw to come home in 2:26.63. “It was a great race and...
China is set to base 25 top swimmers at the University of Bath for three weeks before this summer’s Olympic Games in London. A delegation from the country’s sports and swimming federations visited the University this week to conclude the arrangements and to sign a contract with Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath. Professor Dame Breakwell said: “We already have strong links with China in terms of academic research and collaboration,...
University of Bath student Andrew Willis clocked the fastest time for the 200m breaststroke in the world this year to achieve the London 2012 Olympic qualification standard. The 21-year-old Chemical Engineering student produced a stunning performance to dip more than two seconds under the qualification standard last night at the British Championships, being held at the London 2012 Aquatics Centre. In doing so he beat British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC) training partner Michael...
The British swimmer discusses his Olympic preparations. Kris Gilchrist believes the professional environment at his University of Bath training centre is the key to his Olympic preparations. The 28-year-old moved to the Intensive Training Centre (ITC) at Bath just over a year ago, believing that the decision was a "no brainer." With such a high repertoire of elite athletes based at the sporting university, Gilchrist often trains in the gym alongside athletes from Olympic events...
The University of Bath swimming team finished runners-up at the overall British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Long Course Championships at the weekend. Calum Jarvis and Jenny Oldham both won one individual event each and were runners-up in another at the championships in Sheffield. Jarvis, a University of Bath Sports Performance student, won the 200m freestyle final in 1:51.83 and came second in the 200m backstroke. He was also a member of both the men’s...
