Super silver in Mexico earns World Championship qualification for Team Bath judoka Ben Fletcher

Team Bath judoka Ben Fletcher achieved the qualifying standard for this year’s World Championships by recording his best Grand Prix result to date – a silver medal in Cancun, Mexico. The Rio 2016 Olympian was in fantastic form in the men’s -100kg category on Sunday, beating LA Smith III of the United States by two waza-ari scores before overcoming Cuba’s Andy Granda after forcing a third Shido penalty in the golden-score period. Fletcher – an ambassador for...

19 June 2017

Team Bath Futures Academy duo earn GB call for Junior European Canoe Sprint Champs

Team Bath Futures Academy athletes Ed Nightingale and Spencer Armstrong have been selected to represent Great Britain at the Junior European Canoe Sprint Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, later this month. Nightingale, aged 15, and 18-year-old Armstrong will contest the K2 500m after winning the selection race at the National Canoe Sprint Regatta in Nottingham recently. Both are members of the British Canoeing England National Training Squad and are coached by British Canoeing Coaches Kevin Bowerbank...

16 June 2017

Crew Bath rowers ready for Henley Women’s Regatta

A 13-strong squad will represent the University of Bath at the 2017 Henley Women’s Regatta this weekend. Carlotta Broglia and Megan Stoker, who study Business Administration and Biomedical Sciences respectively, are one of two Crew Bath boats competing in the Senior double scull. The others (pictured) are Management Masters student Steph Clutterbuck and Laura Macro, who studies Sport & Exercise Science. Both are part of the University-based GB Rowing Team Start programme, coached by Dan...

16 June 2017

First GB senior chance for Cameron Chalmers as University of Bath athletes get Euro Team call

University of Bath sporting scholar Cameron Chalmers has earned his first senior British Athletics selection for this month’s European Athletics Team Championships in Lille Metropole, France. The Sports Performance student, supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, is joined in the squad by fellow University-based athletes Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle. Cameron, coached by James Hillier, has been selected in the men’s 4x400m squad along with Delano Williams, Rabah Yousif, Jarryd Dunn and Matthew Hudson-Smith...

15 June 2017

Students are Barcelona bound for Junior European Modern Pentathlon Champs

Five University of Bath students have been named in the Pentathlon GB squad for the 2017 Junior European Championships, taking place in Barcelona, Spain later this month. Charlie Follett, Georgia Pipes, Sarah Collin, Bradley Sutton and Jamie Harper are joined in the squad by Myles Pillage and Holly Parker, who also train at Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre at the Sport Training Village. Sutton and Collin (pictured), who both study Sport Performance, are supported by...

14 June 2017

Sevens star Chantelle Miell back on England duty as Rugby Europe Grand Prix series begins

University of Bath student Chantelle Miell has once again been selected in the England Women Rugby Sevens squad for the first leg of the Rugby Europe Women’s Grand Prix Series. The Malemort Sevens, taking place in France on June 17-18, and the second leg in Kazan, Russia, on July 8-9 provide England with their final chance to qualify for next year’s HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens in San Francisco. Sport & Exercise Science student Miell, who...

13 June 2017

These girls can! University hosts Girls’ Day School Trust athletics tournament

More than 1,000 pupils from across the country flocked to the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Monday to compete in the annual Girls’ Day School Trust athletics tournament. The action-packed event, hosted by The Royal High School Bath, featured girls from Year 5 through to Year 10 and above contesting hurdles, sprints, relays and middle-distance events on the outdoor athletics track. Events on the in-field included high jump, long jump, javelin, shot, discus...

12 June 2017

Sporty pupils serve up a treat as Team Bath hosts mini tennis tournament

Dozens of children had an ace time at the University of Bath Sports Training Village as they took part in the Bath & Keynsham Primary School Sports Association mini tennis tournament. Pupils in Years 3 and 4 – representing eight schools and competing in 16 teams of two boys and two girls – took to the indoor courts at the £30million facility for an action-packed afternoon. It was a qualifying event for the Summer School...

12 June 2017

Pride and positives as Team Bath Netball end Superleague season on a battling note

Team Bath Netball had to settle for a fourth-placed finish in the 2017 Vitality Superleague season after being edged out in a hard-fought bronze-medal match against Manchester Thunder on Sunday. The title might not have been on the line after Saturday’s semi-final setbacks but that did not stop both teams serving up a cracking contest for the Final Four fans in the Birmingham Arena. However, despite a battling effort from the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold,...

11 June 2017

Team Bath Netball’s Grand Final hopes dashed by Lightning strike in Birmingham

Battling Team Bath Netball saw their chances of winning a sixth Vitality Superleague title ended by an excellent Loughborough Lightning side in the Final Four semi-finals at Birmingham on Saturday. After a nervy start, the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold held their own against table-topping Loughborough for much of the first half and closed the gap to 25-21 at one point. However, Lightning pushed ahead again just before the break and then really turned the screw...

10 June 2017