King and Gale backed nationally as Tokyo potential

Hurdler Dave King and high-jumper Tom Gale are amongst a cohort of University of Bath-based athletes who emerged onto British Athletics’ lottery-supported list for the 2018 season, announced today. They are part of the World Class Performance Programme which is funded by the National Lottery and organised with the aim of success at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. King, an MJ Church Ambassador, broke through and won World Championships selection last year and...

10 November 2017

Four World Champs medals for Uni-based fencers

2016 Rio Paralympic silver medallist Piers Gilliver has added 2017 INAS World Wheelchair Fencing Championships silver and bronze to his growing global medal haul in Rome this week. Today the MJ Church Team Bath ambassador took silver behind Russia’s Maxim Shaburov in the Category A epee final with Russia featuring on the same podium again with bronze through Roman Fedyev. Shaburov had earlier taken gold in the Category A sabre final in which Gilliver, a...

09 November 2017

Tough night for Team Bath as Exeter run in seven tries

Team Bath were rocked by a solid Exeter performance in tonight’s BUCS Super Rugby Westcountry derby at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Bath, sponsored by IKON Construction and supported by Investigo, went down 7-47, to a visiting side who performed clinically with the minimum of errors. The teams went into tonight’s match on the back of contrasting results, with Bath having recorded their first win of the season at Nottingham Trent while Exeter...

08 November 2017

Wheelchair fencers hoping to turn top ranking into gold at World Championships in Rome

After a busy summer of training, University of Bath-based Piers Gilliver says he is in good shape ahead of this week’s IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Championships in Rome, Italy. The Rio 2016 Paralympic finalist and Ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church is a former Junior World Champion in epee and will be looking to add the senior title to his growing list of honours after finishing runner-up in 2015. Training partner Dimitri Coutya (pictured...

07 November 2017

Global champions in star-studded line-up as day two opens on Bath Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament

Winners of titles at this year’s Wimbledon, Australian, French and US Open tournaments are joining Rio 2016 Paralympic gold-medallists in a star-studded line-up for the 2017 Bath Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. The prestigious event started yesterday at the University of Bath Sports Training Village following a hugely-successful debut last year, with spectators invited to watch world-class sport for free from Wednesday - Saturday. A stacked men’s singles competition features eight of the world’s top-ten ranked players...

07 November 2017

Team JST overcome final scare to power to fourth successive Strength in Depth European crown

Wigan-based Team JST (pictured) were crowned as Europe’s fittest team for the fourth year running when the annual Strength in Depth tournament returned to the University of Bath Sports Training Village over the weekend. They had to do it the hard way, though, as an injury to masters athlete Paul Hopper and a platform error in the ninth and final challenge of two brutal days of competition allowed the CrossFit Oslo Wolfpack from Norway to...

06 November 2017

City of Bath rhythmic gymnasts produce dream performance at national Gymfusion event

City of Bath Rhythmic Gymnastics Club are celebrating after wowing the crowds at this weekend’s Gymfusion Midlands at the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. The event had a ‘dream’ theme and featured an array of gymnastics routines performed by squads from all over the country. In the only rhythmic gymnastics discipline at the show, the Bath club enthralled the audience with a complex and delightful routine using ribbons, balls, clubs and hoops based on the dream of...

05 November 2017

Bath show tremendous character to claim first BUCS Super Rugby win of season with last-kick success

The University of Bath men’s 1st XV will go into Wednesday’s home derby against Exeter University looking to build on a dramatic first victory of the 2017-18 BUCS Super Rugby season. Will Flinn converted a Will Partington try with the last kick of a pulsating contest to give the IKON Construction-sponsored Blue and Gold a confidence-boosting 27-26 away win at Nottingham Trent University on Friday. Both teams were desperate to get their first win on...

04 November 2017

More doubles delight for talented young Team Bath MCTA Tennis aces on ITF World Junior Tour

A trophy-laden month for Team Bath MCTA Tennis on the ITF World Junior Tour concluded with more success in both the Middle East and Europe. Joe Leather and Yusuke Tamaki, coached by Rob Morgan, went one better than the previous week’s tournament in Bahrain as they won the boys’ doubles title at the Fujairah ITF Junior West Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. After battling through the opening two rounds via decisive third-set tie-breakers,...

03 November 2017

100 days to go – slider Dom Parsons feeling in good shape as PyeongChang 2018 gets ever closer

With just 100 days to go until the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, University of Bath student Dom Parsons says he is in a good place physically and mentally for a massive skeleton season ahead. Parsons is on track for his second Olympic Games after once again being selected in British Skeleton’s World Cup squad for 2017-18, with the first race taking place at Lake Placid in New York on November 9. He has been...

01 November 2017