University of Bath-based sportspeople stepping up Tokyo 2020 preparations with 500 days to go until next Olympic Games

Today marks 500 days to go until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and three students and graduates are among the multitude of University of Bath-based sportspeople ramping up their preparations for the world’s greatest sporting show. Pentathlete Joe Choong is aiming to join the ranks of double Olympians, and has a chance to qualify for Tokyo when the University hosts the 2019 Modern Pentathlon European Championships this summer, while 110m hurdler David King and swimmer...

12 March 2019

Marrakech medals in the bag as Team Bath judoka Ben and Megan Fletcher win Grand Prix gold and silver

Team Bath Judo siblings Ben and Megan Fletcher won gold and silver respectively during an excellent weekend of competition at the Marrakech Grand Prix in Morocco. MJ Church Ambassador Ben’s victory in the men’s -100kg category secured the second Grand Prix title of his career and moved him up to 11th in the world rankings. He fought brilliantly throughout the tournament, overcoming Poland’s Dominik Majowski, Romania’s Luca Kunszabo and Aibek Serikayev of Kazakhstan on his...

11 March 2019

Team gold adds to individual silver and bronze medals as Bath students impress at BUCS Pentathlon Championships

University of Bath students won team gold and there were individual medals for Bradley Sutton and Olivia Green when they competed at the 2019 BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] Pentathlon Championships in Oxford. Santander Sporting Scholar Sutton (pictured), who studies Sports Performance, was runner-up in the men’s competition for a second successive year, only being pipped to gold by eight points by Cambridge University’s Henry Choong, brother of Rio 2016 Olympian and Bath Mathematics...

10 March 2019

VIDEO: University of Bath sports stars inspires next generation at This Girl Can event on International Women’s Day

Three sporting role models who train and compete at the University of Bath helped to celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 when they took part in an event inspiring schoolgirls across Bath & North East Somerset. Forty sporty children aged five and six attended the fun This Girl Can event at the Sports Training Village, which was hosted by Team Bath Tribe in association with the Bath & North East Somerset School Sport Partnership. As well...

08 March 2019

Move from Spain to Team Bath pays off as rising rhythmic gymnastics star Sophie Hookings earns England selection

Team Bath Rhythmic Gymnastics star Sophie Hookings, who moved from Mallorca to the South West to pursue her sporting dream, has been selected for the the England squad. The 16-year-old started gymnastics at the age of five, where her talent and determination saw her earn selection to attend the Centro De Alto Rendimiento in Madrid, a training school for elite sportspeople. Her passion for rhythmic gymnastics and dream to compete internationally as a British representative...

07 March 2019

Fifth successive win secures best BUCS Super Rugby league finish for Team Bath and a home quarter-final

Team Bath men’s 1st XV stretched their winning run to five games as they secured their best-ever BUCS Super Rugby league finish with a hard-fought victory over Loughborough at a wet and windy University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight. All of the points came in the first half as the Blue & Gold, who were watched by representatives of sponsors Fulkers and MJ Church, came from behind to win 19-5 thanks to tries from...

06 March 2019

VIDEO: Lewis Moody and Amy Williams tell us why they are so impressed by new Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre

The new Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre has proven to be a big hit with students, staff and visitors since it was officially opened last week. Sporting greats Lewis Moody and Amy Williams, who helped University of Bath Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Bernie Morley perform the ribbon-cutting ceremony, are both long-term users of the facilities at the Sports Training Village. Here they tell us why they are so impressed with the new two-storey facilities, which...

05 March 2019

Ilaria Brandimarte helps GB to superb Paris podium place as synchro swimmers shine in FINA World Series

Team Bath Synchro Club’s Ilaria Brandimarte helped Great Britain win a superb silver medal at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in Paris. Brandimarte and team-mates Kate Shortman, Isabelle Thorpe, Daniella Lloyd, Victoria Usher, Daisy Rushton, Cerys Hughes, Greta Hampson, Millicent Costello and Cerys Larsen scored 81.6667 points to finish runners-up to Brazil in the free combination final. Great Britain also finished fifth overall in the team free final after scoring 80.3333. It was the...

04 March 2019

Brad Hall and Nick Gleeson equal Britain’s best two-man bobsleigh result for more than half a century at World Championships

British Bobsleigh are celebrating their joint best two-man World Championship result for 53 years after Brad Hall and Nick Gleeson finished equal fourth in Canada on Sunday. Former decathlete Hall and serving Paratrooper Gleeson just missed a first British medal since Olympic Champions Tony Nash and Robin Dixon won bronze in Cortina in 1966. They instead equalled the achievement of recently retired Bruce Tasker and current four-man team-mate Joel Fearon, who themselves finished fourth in...

03 March 2019

Top-ten finishes are best yet for pentathletes Francesca Summers and Tom Toolis at Cairo World Cup

Francesca Summers, Tom Toolis and University of Bath student Myles Pillage all recorded personal best finishes at a World Cup as Pentathlon GB made an encouraging start to the 2019 season in Cairo, Egypt. Former World Junior Champion Summers won 20 of her 35 fencing bouts and produced a flawless ride to sit sixth going into the combined run-shoot, a position she maintained to finish on the wider podium in the women’s final. Charlie Follett,...

02 March 2019