British Skeleton athletes heading to World Championships in high spirits after impressive season of medals and development

Six University of Bath-based British Skeleton athletes will be aiming to cap an impressive 2020-21 season when they compete in the showpiece competition of the year – the IBSF World Championships which start in Altenberg, Germany on Thursday. The GB men’s trio of Craig Thompson, Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have all stood on the podium during the recently concluded World Cup campaign, while Olympic bronze-medallist Laura Deas leads the challenge for the British women...

10 February 2021

Team Bath Netball players cannot wait to get going as Vitality Superleague returns with opening weekend double-header

Almost exactly 11 months after they last took to the court for a Vitality Superleague game, Team Bath Netball begin their 2021 campaign with two matches in 24 hours this weekend – and all 15 players are buzzing to finally get started. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold face Welsh franchise Celtic Dragons in their opening fixture on Saturday (4pm centre-pass) before renewing rivalries with Loughborough Lightning the following afternoon (2pm). Both matches are being...

09 February 2021

Clean Sport Week: Why education is key to raising anti-doping awareness among hundreds of athletes at the University of Bath

February marks a year since the University of Bath retained its UKAD [UK Anti-Doping] Clean Sport Elite Accreditation. Having originally been accredited in 2017, retaining the status in 2020 means the university is one of only four universities in the UK to meet the UKAD’s highest level of accreditation. Accreditation recognises the ongoing commitment of the University to providing a clean sport environment for all of our athletes, coaches, support personnel and community members. Stephen...

08 February 2021

Third World Cup medal of memorable season for British Skeleton as Craig Thompson secures superb silver in Igls ahead of World Champs

Craig Thompson won a superb silver medal in Igls, Austria on Friday as British Skeleton athletes who train at the University of Bath finished an impressive 2020-21 IBSF World Cup season on a suitably high note. All six of the men and women competing placed inside the top 11, with Thompson’s medal being one of two personal best World Cup finishes as the British squad showed good form ahead of next month’s World Championships. “It’s...

29 January 2021

Double Olympic champ Helen Glover seeking to make more history as mum of three targets Tokyo Games after returning to rowing

Double Olympic champion Helen Glover, who began her celebrated rowing career training at Team Bath, has announced her return to the sport as she seeks to compete at this summer’s rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Games. Glover, who first began rowing on the British Rowing World-Class Start Programme in Bath in 2008, last competed internationally in the women’s pair final at Rio 2016 where she and University of Bath graduate Heather Stanning successfully defended the historic title...

28 January 2021

Ashleigh Pittaway wins second Junior World Champs medal of her career on another good weekend for skeleton and bobsleigh athletes

University of Bath-based skeleton athlete Ashleigh Pittaway won Junior World Championship (JWC) bronze for the second time in her career in Switzerland on Saturday. Pittaway’s combined time of 2:22.83 over her two runs on the legendary St Moritz track was only bettered by Germany’s Hannah Neise and Susanne Kreher, with the Brit performing brilliantly on her second slide to move up from fifth at the halfway stage. The result matched the 20-year-old’s third-placed finish in...

25 January 2021

Team Bath Netball stars help England Roses secure Jean Hornsby Cup after Vitality Legends Series victory over Superleague All Stars

A quartet of Team Bath Netball players helped the Vitality Roses secure a 3-0 Legends Series victory over the Superleague All Stars and lift the Jean Hornsby Cup, named after the first black England netball player. Serena Guthrie co-captained the Roses and started all three games, with goal-defence Layla Guscoth lining up alongside her as England started the week with a 70-54 victory. They followed that up with a 67-44 win on Friday before an...

24 January 2021

With six months to rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games, scholar Tom Dean is looking to write own chapter in Bath swimming success story

With exactly six months to go until the rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games are due to begin, Tom Dean believes the delay could work in his favour as he seeks to follow in the wake of some celebrated University of Bath-based swimmers. It is 25 years since Paul Palmer became the first sportsperson to bring an Olympic medal back to the Team Bath pool, a 400m freestyle silver in Atlanta, and another 11 swimmers and five...

23 January 2021

Celebrating 25 years of Olympic and Paralympic success at Team Bath – first medallist explains why centre was “ahead of its time”

We are celebrating 25 Years Of Success at Team Bath this year, with 2021 marking a quarter-of-a-century since the first of what is now a magnificent 48 Olympic and Paralympic medals was won by an athlete who trained at our inspirational multi-sport facility. It was swimmer Paul Palmer who had that accolade, winning 400m freestyle silver at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games, and he isn’t surprised to see so many athletes across a wide range...

22 January 2021

Former Director of Sport Tom Hudson reflects on his Olympic Games experience and laying the foundations for 25 years of success at University of Bath

Imagine, aged 20, you’ve never been out of the country before. Imagine that the flight you board from the UK stops first at Basra, where the heat is somewhat unbelievable, before going on to Singapore (including an overnight at the world-famous Raffles Hotel) and then onward to Australia where local people line the streets to cheer and welcome the arriving athletes. For some it might have proved too much, generating nerve-jangling under-performance, but for Tom...

21 January 2021