More University of Bath sporting scholars heading to Paris 2024 Olympic Games as judoka and hurdler secure their selections

Two more former University of Bath Sporting Scholars, Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz and Alastair Chalmers, have been selected to represent Mexico and Team GB respectively at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a second Games for judoka Awiti-Alcaraz, who competed for Mexico at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She earned automatic qualification for Paris by ranking in the world’s top 20 in the women’s -63kg category after an impressive two years on the international...

09 July 2024

Sporting scholar Leah Crisp ready to compete on world’s biggest sporting stage this summer after graduating from University

Graduating from the University of Bath and making her Olympics debut – it is going to be quite the summer for sporting scholar Leah Crisp. The marathon swimmer will attend Bath Abbey on Tuesday 16th July for her official graduation ceremony in Economics and Mathematics before returning to the University’s Sports Training Village to continue her final preparations for the Paris Games. Crisp will contest the women’s 10km race on Thursday 8th August (6.30am BST),...

08 July 2024

Golden hat-trick provides Bath-based wheelchair fencers with fillip before final countdown to Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers won five medals, three of them gold, when they visited Poland for the last IWASF World Cup competition before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. [caption id="attachment_70653" align="alignright" width="292"] Dimitri Coutya won gold and two bronze in Warsaw. PICTURES: Archive IKS-AWF, Adrian Stykowski[/caption] Piers Gilliver (pictured top), whose aim in Paris is to win gold in both the Category A epee and sabre, did just that in Warsaw as he defeated...

08 July 2024

University of Bath delighted to support the continuation of the Team Bath Netball performance pathway for South West of England

Team Bath Netball are delighted to confirm that it has been granted a licence to deliver the southwest performance pathway on behalf of England Netball. Following the outcome of the NSL 2.0 tender, where Team Bath was not successful in securing a licence for the newly-launched Netball Super League from 2025, England Netball presented an opportunity in which Team Bath could still retain a licence to deliver the performance pathway in the southwest and compete...

05 July 2024

Bath Rugby Student Performance Sport programme partners with leading training equipment and match ball suppliers Rhino

Rhino will supply performance rugby squads at the University of Bath with their elite-level Vortex Pro match ball  as part of a new partnership that will also see them supply contact equipment to the 2024 BUCS Super Rugby semi-finalists. The new collaboration with the University of Bath Rugby Student Performance Sport programme means the university’s rugby teams will have access to state-of-the-art training gear including scrum machines, balls and other essential equipment. Aaron James, Head...

04 July 2024

Grand Palais awaits University of Bath-based wheelchair fencing royalty as ParalympicsGB officially select quartet for Paris 2024

Defending champion Piers Gilliver and fellow Paralympic Games medallists Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson are among the University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers named in the ParalympicsGB squad for Paris 2024. Joining them in the spectacular surroundings of the Grand Palais this September will be four-time Paralympian Gemma Collis, who does some of her training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) and receives sport-science support from the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) team at the...

03 July 2024

Coach delighted to see Chari Hawkins’ dedication rewarded as Bath alumna secures Team USA heptathlon spot for Paris 2024 Olympics

Chari Hawkins’ qualification for the Team USA track and field squad heading to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is reward for the University of Bath alumna's  “super focussed and super positive” approach to athletics. That is the view of Colin Bovell, Head Coach Track and Field at the University, who worked with heptathlete Hawkins from 2017-18 while she combined her sport with a Postgraduate degree in International Education & Globalisation. “Chari was always an exceptional...

02 July 2024

Student Louis Treays proud to add to University of Bath’s rich Touch Rugby heritage after being selected for home World Cup

The Touch Rugby World Cup is being staged in England for the first time this summer and University of Bath student Louis Treays cannot wait to compete at a home championship. Nearly 200 teams representing 40 nations will compete in the biggest-ever World Cup, taking place at the University of Nottingham from 15-21 July. Treays, who graduates from his Sports Performance undergraduate degree this summer, is part of the England Open Men’s squad along with...

01 July 2024

Sports Performance student Riku Biscomb ready to step up as he represents Britain at World Kendo Championship in Milan

University of Bath student Riku Biscomb is taking to the global stage for the first time as he represents Great Britain at the 19th World Kendo Championship in Milan, Italy. Biscomb, who has just completed the first year of a Sports Performance course, is supported in his dual student-athlete careers by the Student Performance Sport Breakthrough Programme and does his gym work at the Team Bath Sports Training Village while also training with Bath Kendo...

30 June 2024

Defending champions and Olympic debutants among Bath-based modern pentathlon quartet selected for Paris 2024

Defending champions Joe Choong and Kate French plus Pentathlon GB colleagues Kerenza Bryson and Myles Pillage have today become the latest University of Bath-based athletes to be officially selected by Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a third Games apiece for French and fellow Tokyo gold-medallist Choong, who has won two Modern Pentathlon World Championship titles since claiming Olympic gold in record-breaking style in 2021. The duo, who studied Sports...

26 June 2024