University of Bath celebrates Gold Coast 2018 and PyeongChang 2018 links by hosting UK’s first Commonwealth Big Lunch

Some of the country’s top sportspeople joined dignitaries, students and local schoolchildren at the University of Bath today to celebrate its links to both the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The Commonwealth Big Lunch, organised and hosted in conjunction with UK Sport, saw 130 guests enjoy food from around the Commonwealth in the first of a nationwide series of events building up to the Commonwealth Heads of Governnment...

13 March 2018

Student Jenny Nesbitt selected for Gold Coast 2018 ahead of Commonwealth celebration at University of Bath

Sporting scholar Jenny Nesbitt has become the 30th University of Bath-based sportsperson to be selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after she was called into the Welsh athletics squad. The news comes a day before the University celebrates its Gold Coast links with a Commonwealth Lunch that will be attended by a host of the selected sportspeople, students from 22 Commonwealth nations and dignitaries including Guest of Honour Dame Katherine Grainger, the Chair...

12 March 2018

Dimitri Coutya makes history with medal hat-trick as University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers excel in Italy

Dimitri Coutya became the first Brit to win three individual medals at a World Cup event during another outstanding weekend for University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers on the international stage. Coutya won Category B epee and foil gold, as well as sabre bronze, while MJ Church ambassador Piers Gilliver also excelled as he claimed the Category A epee title in Pisa, Italy. Double World Champion Coutya has dominated his epee category in recent months and...

12 March 2018

PyeongChang 2018: Kelly Gallagher ready to throw kitchen sink at Games after solid start to week

University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher had to settle for eighth place in the visually-impaired Super G at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games but said she was happy to be “pushing out of the starting gate” again. Four years ago in Sochi, Gallagher famously won the Super G title to become the first Brit to claim alpine skiing gold at either an Olympic or Paralympic Games. She suffered multiple injuries after a training crash...

11 March 2018

Double gold among medal haul for Bath students at BUCS Modern Pentathlon Championships

University of Bath students won team gold and two individual medals when they competed in the 2018 BUCS Modern Pentathlon Championships in Oxford. Whiteley Sporting Scholar Eilidh Prise, who studies Mathematics, led the way in the women’s individual competition to claim 12 BUCS points for Bath. Katherine Townsend and Sarah Collin were seventh and 12th respectively. Sports Performance student Bradley Sutton, supported by a Santander Sporting Scholarship, was runner-up to Sport & Exercise Science graduate...

10 March 2018

Impressive Manchester Thunder side end Team Bath Netball’s winning start to Superleague season

Team Bath Netball’s winning start to the 2018 Vitality Superleague season was ended by a clinical Manchester Thunder side on Friday. The Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold edged the first and final quarters in front of a noisy sell-out crowd but Thunder, inspired by excellent goal-attack Kathryn Turner, were fast and fluent going forward and deserved their victory, eventually coming out on top 60-51. Anna Stembridge, Team Bath Netball Superleague Head Coach, said: “We’re obviously disappointed...

09 March 2018

International defender Zanele Vimbela joins Team Bath Netball Superleague squad ahead of Thunder clash

Experienced South African international defender Zanele Vimbela has joined the Team Bath Netball Vitality Superleague squad for the remainder of the 2018 season. The 28-year-old, part of the SPAR Proteas squad for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, arrived in the UK on Sunday and will be available to make her debut when Manchester Thunder visit the Team Bath Arena on Friday (centre-pass 7.30pm - click here to buy tickets). “I’m setting in very well,...

07 March 2018

England Hockey call on University of Bath sporting scholars for U21 visit to Ireland

University of Bath students Peter Scott and Tim Nurse have been named in the England Hockey U21 squad for a training camp and matches in Ireland later this month. Both Scott and Nurse, who play their club hockey for Team Bath Buccaneers, study Sports Performance and are supported by Trendell and King Sporting Scholarships respectively. Scott has plenty of experience with the U21s and has also represented England at senior level. Nurse represented Great Britain...

06 March 2018

Quartet crowned as British champions as University of Bath-based swimmers impress in Scotland

There were six golds amongst a 14-medal haul for University of Bath-based swimmers at the 2018 British Swimming Championships, which were incorporated into the Edinburgh International Meet. Despite being in heavy training for next month’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer James Guy was able to add two more national titles to his haul. He was a second clear of the field in the 200m butterfly, clocking 1:58.05, and then...

05 March 2018

“Very special” first individual global medal as Eilidh Doyle wins World Indoor Champs bronze in Birmingham

University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle said winning her first individual global medal was “very special” after she bagged 400m bronze at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. It was a 14th podium finish at a major championship for the 30-year-old, who has won Commonwealth and European medals in her specialist 400m hurdles discipline but had previously narrowly missed out on the indoor or outdoor World stage. Roared on by a home crowd at...

05 March 2018