Commitment to providing high-quality clean sport education and environment sees University of Bath retain UKAD Elite Accreditation

The University of Bath has retained its UKAD [UK Anti-Doping] Clean Sport Elite Accreditation after demonstrating its ongoing commitment to providing students, staff and coaches with essential anti-doping education and support. As one of only three higher-education institutions in the UK to receive the award, the University of Bath is recognised by the national governing body as promoting a clean sport ethos through its culture, policies and environment. Stephen Baddeley, Director of Sport at the...

10 March 2020

Rising Team Bath Netball star Molly Hole captains England U17 to successful Netball Europe title defence

Team Bath Netball NPL player Molly Hole led by example as she captained England U17s to a successful defence of their Netball Europe title in Wales. Hole, who is a member of the Blue & Gold’s U19 NPL squad, started at goal-shooter as England began their campaign with an 89-22 victory over Scotland. She then came off the bench in the 96-19 win against Northern Ireland before lining up at goal-attack as England continued their...

09 March 2020

Sporting scholar Bradley Sutton secures golden double as University of Bath students excel at BUCS Pentathlon Champs

Sporting scholar Bradley Sutton struck individual and team gold as University of Bath student-athletes recorded impressive results at the 2020 BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] Pentathlon Championships in Oxford. After finishing runner-up in both 2018 and 2019, Sports Performance student Sutton – supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship – finally topped the podium in the men’s competition after solid performances across all five disciplines including the fastest time in the swimming pool. His winning...

08 March 2020

Sensational second half sees Team Bath Netball turn five-goal deficit into big win over Wasps in Vitality Superleague

A stunning second-half performance saw Team Bath Netball turn a five-goal deficit into a 63-51 victory over Wasps as they continued their impressive start to the 2020 Vitality Superleague season. A capacity 1,400-strong crowd were on their feet as the Blue & Gold went toe to toe with an excellent Wasps side – finalists for the past three seasons – in a high-quality encounter before storming away in the final stages. The visitors managed to...

06 March 2020

Team Bath end BUCS Super Rugby league season on a battling note as they make Leeds Beckett work hard for victory

Team Bath men’s 1st XV showed great spirit and determination as they made a larger and more experienced Leeds Beckett side work for a narrow 31-21 victory in the final game of the 2019-20 BUCS Super Rugby league season. The Blue & Gold – sponsored by Fulkers Bailey Russell – twice led in the first half at the University of Bath Sports Training Village thanks to well-crafted tries from Elliot Berryman and George Worboys but...

04 March 2020

Team Bath Netball come through physical encounter at Celtic Dragons to continue winning start to 2020 Superleague season

Team Bath Netball are going into their sell-out first home game of the 2020 Vitality Superleague season this week on the back of successive victories after coming through a very physical encounter at Celtic Dragons. The Blue & Gold got off to a slow start in Cardiff against a Dragons side looking to bounce back from their one-goal defeat to Surrey Storm in the Season Opener but worked their way into the contest and by...

02 March 2020

Jo Muir conquers Cairo as Pentathlon GB ace claims first World Cup title and second gold of Tokyo 2020 Olympic year

University of Bath graduate Jo Muir took another giant step closer to securing a Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification place as she won a thrilling gold at the first World Cup of the year in Cairo, Egypt. The Pentathlon GB athlete, fresh from winning the women’s title at the Budapest Indoor competition, impressed throughout the day before excelling in the run-shoot where she surged from sixth to first and then held off Russia’s Uliana Batashova to...

01 March 2020

British Skeleton duo so close to medal as Brad Hall and Marcus Wyatt record top-ten finishes at IBSF World Championships

University of Bath alumni Madelaine Smith and team-mate Matt Weston missed out on a medal by the narrowest of margins as the 2020 IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships concluded in Altenberg, Germany. The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) duo were competing in the new skeleton team event and set a combined time of 1:55.85 from their runs, just three-hundredths of a second behind bronze-medallists Italy. “A medal would have been amazing but that’s...

01 March 2020

Quarter-final place confirmed for Team Bath men’s 1st XV despite heavy BUCS Super Rugby derby defeat to Hartpury

Team Bath men’s 1st XV had their place in the end-of-season knockout competition confirmed on Wednesday, despite suffering a heavy BUCS Super Rugby away defeat to local rivals Hartpury. A defeat for Cardiff University in their derby against Cardiff Met mathematically ensured that the Blue & Gold – who are sponsored by Fulkers Bailey Russell – cannot be caught in eighth place. They are now set to face newly-crowned league champions Durham in the quarter-finals...

27 February 2020

VIDEO: Go behind the scenes of EIS wheelchair fencing ‘medal factory’ at the University of Bath with six months to Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

With exactly six months to go until the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games get under way, we have been behind the scenes with the GB wheelchair fencing medal hopefuls at their University of Bath training base to learn more about their successful programme. Rio 2016 silver-medallist Piers Gilliver and fellow World Champion Dimitri Coutya have dominated the international wheelchair fencing scene during the past four years, winning multiple global titles and dozens of medals on the...

25 February 2020