There were medals galore for University of Bath-based swimmers at the Victoria State Championships in Melbourne, Australia. World University Games champion Jess Dickons led the way, winning gold in the 200m butterfly. The University of Bath Sports Performance student beat Beijing 2008 Olympian and 2011 World Championships silver medallist Ellen Gandy into second place. Michael Jamieson made it a Bath Intensive Training Centre double on the final day of the championships, striking gold in the...
Swimmers Michael Jamieson and Jess Dickons are Team Bath’s latest Athletes of the Month award winners following impressive performances at the European Short Course Championships. Team Bath’s Athlete of the Month award highlights the achievements of athletes training at the University of Bath and is sponsored jointly by Oakley UK and Ellis and Killpartrick Opticians of New Bond Street, Bath. Jamieson and Dickons are both University of Bath students who train at the British Swimming...
The University of Bath men’s and women’s teams produced some strong performances to finish runners-up at the British Universities and Colleges (BUCS) Short Course Championships. Among the top performances was Michael Jamieson’s swim in the 200m breaststroke – the Sports Performance student set a BUCS record of 2:07.04 to take gold. His performance earned him the Male Swimmer of the Championships plaudit. Andrew Willis, who trains alongside Jamieson at the British Swimming Intensive Training Centre...
University of Bath student Jess Dickons has won Britain’s first medal of the World University Games in China when she struck gold in the 200m butterfly final. The 21-year-old Sports Performance student came home in 2:08.91, just edging out Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi by three-hundredths of a second at the Games in Shenzhen. “I knew it was going to be a really quick race and I knew there were some fast swimmers in there,” said Dickons,...
University of Bath-based Siobahn-Marie O’Connor performed exceptionally well at the European Junior Championships to bring home three gold medals and a silver, making her the most successful female swimmer at the European Junior Championships. At the tournament in Belgrade, she won the girls’ 400m medley in a time of 4:46.61, followed by a win in the girls’ 4x100m medley and the girls’ 200m medley. O’Connor, who trains at the University of Bath with the British...
Team Bath swimmer Liz Johnson struck gold at the International Paralympic Committee European Championships in Germany today (Monday). Johnson won the SB6 100m breaststroke title at the championships in Berlin, the same discipine in which she took gold at the Beijing 2008 Paralymic Games. Johnson, who is coached by Mark Skimming at the University of Bath, won in a time of 1:38.89 – just over a second clear of British team-mate Charlotte Henshaw. For further...
Team Bath-based swimmer Kris Gilchrist ended the British Gas ASA National Championships on a high note by collecting his second title at Sheffield last night (Friday). Gilchrist, who trains at the British Gas ITC Bath, added the 200m breaststroke title to the 100m he won earlier in the week. Gilchrist shaved over a second off his season’s best to clock 2:10.16 and go fifth in this season’s world rankings. He said: “I felt really good...
Team Bath-based swimmers Stacey Tadd and Chris Walker-Hebborn both completed impressive doubles at the ASA National Championships in Sheffield last night (Thursday). University of Bath Swimming Club member Stacey Tadd added the 100m breaststroke title to the 200m title she won the previous day. As on Wednesday, she did it in style by setting an English record. Her 1:09.14 saw her win the 100m by almost two seconds. Chris Walker-Hebborn, who trains at the British...
Two further Team Bath-based swimmers have achieved qualifying times to compete at next month’s World Championships in China. Stacey Tadd and Chris Walker-Hebborn both set qualifying times as they took gold on the second day of British Gas ASA National Championships in Sheffield last night (Wednesday). It takes the total number of Team Bath-based swimmers to achieve qualifying times for the British team for the Worlds in Shanghai to six. The team will be announced...
Swimmers based at Team Bath won three gold medals on the opening day of the British Gas ASA National Championships in Sheffield. Fifteen-year-old Siobhan Marie O’Connor led the way last night (Tuesday) taking gold in the women’s 200m individual medley. The teenager, who trains at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre at the University of Bath, clocked a qualification time for next month’s World Championships in Shanghai. O’Connor, who led throughout the race, touching in...
