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

Olympic medallist Laura Deas and MJ Church Ambassador Ashleigh Pittaway in six-strong British Skeleton squad for World Champs

Olympic bronze medallist Laura Deas will be aiming for her first World Championship medal this week after being named in a six-strong British Skeleton squad for the season’s showpiece in Canada. Deas goes into the event – taking place in Whistler on March 7&8 – on the back of a fantastic third-placed finish in the last World Cup of the season in Calgary last weekend. She is joined in the women’s team by University of...

02 March 2019

Brilliant Blue & Gold fend off Thunder to record first home win of Vitality Netball Superleague season

Team Bath Netball produced tremendous performances right across the court to overcome Manchester Thunder in a fantastic game of Vitality Superleague netball on another dramatic evening at the Team Bath Arena. There was little to choose between the teams throughout a fiercely-contested match that saw Team Bath edge into a five-goal lead at the end of the first quarter before Thunder clawed their way back into the game. The tension was rising as the teams...

01 March 2019

“Tremendous honour” as ‘creme de la creme’ Team Bath claims double success at 2019 Bath Life Awards

Team Bath won two honours, including the prestigious Platinum Award for best category winner overall, on a fantastic night at the 2019 Bath Life Awards. The annual celebration of businesses and organisations in Bath and the contribution they make to the local community saw Team Bath, whose world-class University of Bath Sports Training Village facilities receive more than 1.6million visits each year, win the hotly-contested Health & Wellbeing category. The judging panel then selected Team...

01 March 2019

Tremendous Team Bath complete double over league leaders Exeter to take BUCS Super Rugby title chase into final week

In-form Team Bath men’s 1st XV produced another magnificent performance to win at table-topping Exeter University this afternoon and ensure the BUCS Super Rugby title race would go into the final week of the season. The 34-21 success at Topsham Sports Ground saw the Fulkers-sponsored Blue & Gold, who are also supported by MJ Church, complete a first league double over Exeter and close to within four points of their South West rivals in the...

27 February 2019

Double Olympic medallist Jazz Carlin announces her retirement from competitive swimming

Swimmer Jazz Carlin, who won two silver medals at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games while training at the University of Bath, has today announced her retirement after a hugely-successful 14-year career. Carlin, who has been coached by David McNulty at the British Swimming National Centre Bath since 2014, won World, European and Commonwealth medals before enjoying her greatest moment in Rio when she won 400m and 800m freestyle silver. “It’s really hard for me to pick...

27 February 2019

The new Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre is officially open to students, staff and the public!

The new Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre has been hailed as “a pretty special place” after it was officially opened to students, staff and the public at the University of Bath Sports Training Village today. Professor Bernie Morley, the University’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, was joined by Olympic gold-medallist Amy Williams, Rugby World Cup winner Lewis Moody and Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Guests were then given a guided tour of the...

26 February 2019

London 2012 Olympic swimming medallist Michael Jamieson inducted into University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport

Olympic swimming medallist Michael Jamieson today returned to the University of Bath, the place where he both trained and studied, to become the latest inductee into the Hall of Fame for Sport. Jamieson famously won 200m breaststroke silver at the London 2012 Olympic Games, smashing the British record three times during the championships and only being denied gold by a World Record swim from Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta. He also won silver at both the Delhi...

25 February 2019