Who to watch and when as London 2017 World Para-Athletics Champs begin

The IPC World Para-Athletics Championships get under way at London’s Olympic Stadium today with three University of Bath-based athletes ready to roared on by the home crowd. More than 1,000 athletes will compete at the championships in total, making it the biggest sporting event in England since the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Paul Blake, coached at the Sports Training Village by Rob Ellchuk, won two medals at those Games and memorably added T36 400m gold...

14 July 2017

Oldham Athletic and Aldershot Town stage pre-season training camps at “first-class” STV

Oldham Athletic and Aldershot Town have been preparing for the 2017-18 football season by staging pre-season training camps at the University of Bath this week. Both clubs have been making full use of the facilities at the £30million Sports Training Village, as well as staying in accommodation and eating meals on campus. The Latics, who play in League 1, trained on the St John’s pitches as well as in the London 2012 Legacy Pool and the...

13 July 2017

Ben Fletcher bound for Budapest after World Judo Champs place is confirmed

Team Bath Judo’s Ben Fletcher has had his place confirmed in the British Judo squad for the 2017 World Championships, taking place in Budapest, Hungary. Fletcher, coached by Juergen Klinger in the University of Bath Sports Training Village dojo, will compete in the men’s -100kg weight division after setting the qualifying standard by winning silver at the Cancun Grand Prix in Mexico last month. That medal success, his best-ever Grand Prix performance, moved the Rio...

12 July 2017

Student Cameron Chalmers among University of Bath-based athletes selected for London 2017 World Championships

University of Bath sporting scholar Cameron Chalmers has been rewarded for his superb form this summer by being named in the British Athletics squad for next month’s IAAF World Championships in London. The Sport Performance student, supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, has been selected in the men’s 4x400m relay squad after winning bronze at the recent Team Trials in Birmingham. Chalmers, who broke a 17-year-old record when he won his fourth successive British...

11 July 2017

Team Bath grant helps Jenny Nesbitt return stronger than ever to earn GB chances

University of Bath sporting scholar Jenny Nesbitt will make her British track and field debut at the European U23 Athletics Championships in Poland this week. It is a stark contrast to her fortunes a year ago when, after enjoying an excellent cross-country season, the talented distance runner had to undergo knee surgery which sidelined her for the next six months. However, with the support of physios and strength & conditioning staff at Team Bath, the Sport...

11 July 2017

No quarter-final but Marcus Daniell matches best-ever Wimbledon performance

Marcus Daniell’s Wimbledon 2017 campaign came to a battling end as the Team Bath MCTA Tennis player and partner Marcelo Demoliner were edged out in the third round of the men’s doubles. A tightly-fought match against the British Skupski brothers, Ken and Neal, went into a second day after poor light ended Monday’s play with Daniell and Demoliner trailing 6-7 7-5 6-7. They returned to Court 3 on Tuesday afternoon but only managed five points...

11 July 2017

Team Bath ace Marcus Daniell sees Wimbledon quarter-final bid go into second day

Team Bath MCTA Tennis player Marcus Daniell and his partner Marcelo Demoliner will return to Wimbledon action on Tuesday afternoon as they look to reach the quarter-finals for the first time. Their men's doubles third-round match against the British Skupski brothers, Ken and Neal, began on Court 3 on Monday night but proved to be an incredibly close affair with just three sets being played before fading light brought a close to play. Daniell - coached by...

11 July 2017

Winning start to Wimbledon 2017 for Team Bath MCTA’s Marcus Daniell

Team Bath MCTA Tennis ace Marcus Daniell and partner Marcelo Demoliner made a winning start to their Wimbledon 2017 men’s doubles campaign on Thursday. Facing two ‘lucky losers’ from qualifying, Ariel Behar of Uruguay and Belarus’s Alexander Bury, they recorded a 6-4 6-3 5-7 6-4 victory on Court 9. Behar and Bury saved two break points at 3-4 down in the first set but Daniell took the next one in style, hitting the baseline with...

06 July 2017

Rising star Amelia Bissett helps GB into finals of Tennis Europe Summer Cup

Team Bath MCTA Tennis player Amelia Bissett is looking forward to her second Tennis Europe final of the year after helping Great Britain’s U14 Girls through the qualifying stages of the Summer Cup. The 14-year-old from Devizes, a pupil at Ralph Allen School in Bath, won three of her five matches in Saint Valery En Caux, France, last weekend as GB qualified as runners-up to the host nation. They will now fly out to San...

06 July 2017

Breaks prove elusive as Anna Smith suffers Wimbledon reverse despite spirited showing

A battling effort from Team Bath MCTA Tennis player Anna Smith and partner Nicole Melichar could not prevent a first-round exit in the women's doubles at Wimbledon 2017. They forced six break points against Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova – a former French Open and US Open singles champion – and Kristina Mladenovic of France, including two in what proved to be the last game of the match. However, they weren't quite able to convert any of them...

05 July 2017