Ben Fletcher claims big-names scalps on way to latest international judo medal

Team Bath judoka Ben Fletcher continued his preparations for next month’s World Championships by winning a bronze medal at the European Open in Minsk, Belarus. It was a third podium finish of 2017 for the MJ Church ambassador, following up on his bronze at the Rome European Open and silver at last month’s Cancun Grand Prix in Mexico. Fletcher, coached by Juergen Klinger at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, overcame Sweden’s Emil Mattsson,...

25 July 2017

“Huge honour” as peers vote Eilidh Doyle as British Athletics Team Captain for London 2017

University of Bath-based Eilidh Doyle says she is ‘chuffed to bits’ after being voted by her fellow athletes as British Athletics Team Captain for next month’s London 2017 IAAF World Championships. The Rio 2016 bronze-medallist, coached by Brian Doyle at the Sports Training Village, will be competing in her fifth World Championships and this year became the most decorated Scottish track and field athlete in history. “I’m absolutely chuffed to bits,” said 400m hurdler Doyle,...

24 July 2017

Perfectly-timed personal best sends disbelieving Polly Maton soaring onto London 2017 podium

Teenager Polly Maton produced the performance of her career so far to become the second University of Bath-based athlete to win a medal at the London 2017 World Para-Athletics Championships. The 17-year-old, from Urchfont in Wiltshire, leapt onto a global podium for the first time as she soared to a new personal best of 5.23m in the sixth and last round of Sunday’s T47 long jump final, much to her own surprise and the delight...

23 July 2017

Alumna Fran Wilson on top of the world as England win Cricket World Cup

University of Bath graduate Fran Wilson helped England win the Women’s Cricket World Cup on an unforgettable Sunday afternoon of high drama at Lord’s. Wilson, who studied Sports Performance, scored 159 runs in five matches – including 81 in the opening fixture against India – as the host nation progressed to the final. She went to a first-ball duck as England posted a score of 228-7 in the final but a sensational spell of 5-11...

23 July 2017

Another top-ten finish for Kate French as Pentathlon GB battle illness at European Champs

In-form Kate French was the highest-placed Pentathlon GB finisher during an eventful European Championships in Belarus that saw the British squad hit by food poisoning. Rio 2016 Olympian French, a University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, performed consistently well throughout the women’s final on Saturday – including a flawless clear round in the riding arena – to record her sixth successive top-ten result. Former World Champion Samantha Murray was 14th, her best result of the...

23 July 2017

Six of the best – Bath-based athletes in contention for TASS Stars Awards

Six athletes who receive Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) support at the University of Bath have been shortlisted in the first-ever TASS Stars Awards for their performances during the past year. Shooter Kristian Callaghan, who graduated earlier this month with a Masters in Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, is in contention for the Most Inspirational prize. Judoka Rhys Thompson is shortlisted for Most Enterprising athlete, while two of the three contenders for Most Dedicated are...

22 July 2017

Defending champions and debutant all set for FINA World Swimming Champs in Budapest

Four defending champions will be among the University of Bath-based swimmers competing at the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary next week. James Guy, Calum Jarvis, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn of the British Swimming National Centre Bath will all be hoping to repeat their golden achievements from the 2015 Championships in Kazan, Russia. Thomas Tsiopanis, who recently graduated in Sports Performance and is supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship, will make his World Championships...

21 July 2017

University of Bath Hawks aiming to soar with England Scholars touch rugby teams in France

Four members of the University of Bath Hawks touch rugby team are in France this week to represent the England Touch students team, the England Scholars.  Nye Davis and Ollie Lee, who study Mechanical Engineering and Sport & Exercise Science respectively, are in the men's team for the European Federation of Touch (EFT) Championship Permit tournament. Sport & Social Sciences student Abi Caple and Jade Traynor, who studies Sport & Exercise Science, will represent the...

20 July 2017

Polly Maton hails community and London 2017 support after top-five finish at World Para-Athletics Champs

Polly Maton has thanked the University of Bath and the local community for their support after contesting the first of her two finals at the London 2017 IPC World Para-Athletics Championships. The 17-year-old, coached by Colin Baross at the Sports Training Village, ran a season’s best of 13.04 as she finished fifth in the T47 100m final at the London Olympic Stadium on Tuesday. While she was slightly disappointed with her time, Maton was thrilled...

19 July 2017

Modern Pentathlon European Championships to return to University of Bath in 2019

The University of Bath will once again stage the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in 2019 - a qualifying competition for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Pentathlon GB, whose National Training Centre has been based at the University since 1998, has been awarded the event by the European Confederation of Modern Pentathlon (ECMP) following a competitive bidding process. It will be the second time in four years that the European Championships have been staged at the £30million Sports Training Village...

18 July 2017