Aerial skier Lloyd Wallace soars to Olympic debut as slider Jackie Narracott also earns PyeongChang 2018 selection

Aerial skier Lloyd Wallace and Australian skeleton athlete Jackie Narracott are the latest University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Wallace’s qualification for the Team GB squad – the first male aerial skier to be selected by Britain in 20 years – is all the more remarkable as it comes just six months after he suffered a serious head injury while training in Switzerland. He was placed...

25 January 2018

Students and alumni among Pentathlon GB squad starting international season at Budapest Indoor

Five University of Bath students and four graduates are among an 11-strong Pentathlon GB squad starting their international modern pentathlon seasons at the Budapest Indoor Competition in Hungary this week. Natural Sciences student Jess Varley, supported by the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), will compete in the women's qualifiers on Thursday alongside Psychology student Charlie Follett and Santander Sporting Scholar Georgia Hannam, who studies Physical Activity & Health. Completing the GB women's squad are graduates...

25 January 2018

Best-ever Australian Open campaign comes to a battling end for Team Bath’s Marcus Daniell after epic quarter-final

Marcus Daniell’s best-ever Grand Slam run came to a battling end on Wednesday as the Team Bath Tennis player and men’s doubles partner Dominic Inglot narrowly missed out on an Australian Open semi-final place. Daniell and Inglot saved three match points on their way to winning a thrilling second-set tie-break 12-10 and taking their quarter-final against Austria’s Oliver Marach and Croatia’s Mate Pavic on the Margaret Court Arena the full distance. There was nothing to...

24 January 2018

Team Wales select swimmers Jazz Carlin and Calum Jarvis for Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games

Welsh swimmers Jazz Carlin and Calum Jarvis (pictured) are the latest University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. They are among 93 athletes across 11 sports added to the Team Wales squad today for the Games, taking place in Australia from April 4-15. University of Bath graduate Jacob Paul, a 400m hurdler who was supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship while studying Sport & Social Sciences, has also...

24 January 2018

From the push-start track to PyeongChang – Team GB name ten bobsleigh athletes for 2018 Winter Olympic Games

Ten members of the bobsleigh squad that train at the University of Bath have been selected by Team GB for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Brad Hall will pilot both a two-man and four-man sled, with Lamin Deen also driving in the latter competition, while World Junior Champions Mica McNeill and Mica Moore (pictured) will contest the women’s event. Sochi 2014 veterans Joel Fearon, Andrew Matthews and Ben Simons have been selected as brakemen...

23 January 2018

Liam Broady’s GB Davis Cup call continues great month for Team Bath Tennis players on international stage

Team Bath Tennis player Liam Broady has been selected in the Great Britain Davis Cup team for next week’s first-round tie against Spain in Marbella. Broady – coached by Dave Sammel, Henry Jones and Ian MacDonald at the University of Bath Sports Training Village – is named alongside Australian Open semi-finalist Kyle Edmund, Cameron Norrie and doubles specialists Dominic Inglot and Jamie Murray. It continues a fantastic start to 2018 for Team Bath’s International High-Performance...

23 January 2018

University of Bath-based skeleton quartet selected by Team GB for PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games

Four skeleton athletes who train at the University of Bath, including defending champion Lizzy Yarnold and student Dom Parsons, have today been selected by Team GB for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Laura Deas and Jerry Rice will make their Olympic debuts at the Games, which are being staged in South Korea from February 9-25 – the skeleton medals will be decided on February 16 and 17. The quartet compete for the British Bobsleigh...

22 January 2018

First Grand Slam quarter-final for Marcus Daniell as Team Bath Tennis ace marches on at Australian Open

Team Bath Tennis player Marcus Daniell is through to a Grand Slam quarter-final for the first time in his career after another impressive performance in the Australian Open men’s doubles in Melbourne. Daniell and British partner Dominic Inglot followed up Saturday’s 6-4 6-2 victory over the French pair of Benoit Paire and Hugo Nys by beating Chile’s Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski of Belarus 6-4 6-3 in Monday’s third-round match. That has put the duo through...

22 January 2018

First Grand Prix gold is another major step forward for Team Bath judoka Ben Fletcher

Team Bath Judo’s Ben Fletcher won the first Grand Prix gold of his career when he triumphed in Tunisia on Sunday. The MJ Church ambassador, coached by Juergen Klinger at the University of Bath Sports Training Village dojo, beat Russia’s Ramazan Malsuigenov by a waza-ari in a hard-fought final of the -100kg weight category. Rio 2016 Olympian Fletcher had earlier overcome Russia’s Askhab Kostoev, Milan Randl of Slovakia and Algeria’s Lyes Bouyacoub on his way...

21 January 2018

Team Bath Netball stars shine as England come from behind to beat New Zealand in extra-time

Team Bath Netball’s Eboni Beckford-Chambers and Kadeen Corbin helped England to a famous victory over New Zealand at London’s Copper Box Arena on Saturday. Blue and Gold captain Beckford-Chambers came on at goal-defence for a sensational final quarter that saw the Roses rally from 43-37 down to draw level at 49-49. Goal-shooter Corbin (pictured celebrating with team-mate Helen Housby) missed a chance to win the match in the dying seconds of normal time but put...

20 January 2018