Top-five finish in BUCS Super Rugby provides positive platform for Blue and Gold

Director of Rugby Aaron James believes the University of Bath have laid strong foundations for future success in BUCS Super Rugby after an encouraging first season in the new national competition. The Blue and Gold men’s 1st XV – sponsored by IKON Construction – play their final match of the regular league campaign at Durham University tonight (6.30pm) knowing they will finish fifth overall having won six of their 13 games so far. They will...

22 February 2017

Multitude of medals as University of Bath student-athletes impress at BUCS Nationals

The University of Bath won 37 medals – 11 of them gold – as student-athletes enjoyed a successful weekend at the BUCS Nationals in Sheffield, one of Britain’s biggest annual multi-sport competitions. There were plenty of memorable moments on the athletics track, with Sport Performance student Cameron Chalmers – supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship – equaling the championship record of 46.91 as he retained the men’s 400m title. A sensational last leg saw...

21 February 2017

Amelia Bissett helps GB to top-four finish during busy week of international tennis for Team Bath

Team Bath MCTA Tennis player Amelia Bissett helped Great Britain U14 Girls to a fourth-placed finish at the Winter Cup Finals in the Czech Republic. The 13-year-old from Devizes, a pupil at Ralph Allen School in Bath, won three of her six matches during the weekend, including both the singles and doubles during a 3-0 victory over Turkey in the first round. GB were beaten by a strong Russia side in the semi-finals and went...

21 February 2017

Team Bath Netball looking to step up at Super Ten after winning start to Superleague season

Head Coach Anna Stembridge is looking for more consistency from the Team Bath Netball squad as they look to build on an opening-day victory at Celtic Dragons during this weekend’s showpiece Super Ten event in Birmingham. The Blue and Gold – sponsored by Sitec – started their 2017 Vitality Netball Superleague campaign with a hard-fought 51-41 win in Cardiff on Saturday against a determined Dragons side. Team Bath trailed 11-10 at the end of a...

20 February 2017

Rio 2016 medallist Piers Gilliver back with a bronze as wheelchair fencer returns to action

University of Bath-based wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver made a medal-winning return to action in his first competition since claiming epee silver at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Gilliver, a sporting ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church, took bronze at the IWASF World Cup in Eger, Hungary, as the 2017 international season got under way. There will be further competitions in Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States during the coming months, as well...

19 February 2017

When in Rome – Olympic judoka Ben Fletcher on European Open podium

Rio 2016 Olympian Ben Fletcher and University of Bath graduate Gemma Howell both won bronze medals when they competed at European Judo Open events in Italy and Austria. MJ Church sporting ambassador Fletcher, coached by Juergen Klinger at the Sports Training Village, overcame home favourite Maximilian Hageneder and Italy’s Vincenzo D’Arco to reach the semi-finals of the men’s -100kg division in Rome. A narrow defeat by a single wazari to Germany’s Johannes Frey meant Fletcher...

19 February 2017

Another top-ten finish for GB Bobsleigh stars as World Championships begin

University of Bath-based Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon claimed a second successive top-ten World Championship finish as they placed ninth in the two-man bobsleigh in Konigssee, Germany. Tasker and Fearon produced another solid performance in the showpiece event of the year, 12 months after they recorded Britain’s best World Championship two-man result for 50 years with a fourth-place finish in Igls. Only four nations finished above the British number one pair in Germany, with sleds from the...

19 February 2017

Another indoor PB puts hurdler Dave King in good stead ahead of European Indoors

University of Bath-based athlete Dave King warmed up for next month’s European Indoor Championships in style by setting a new 60m hurdles personal best at the Muller Grand Prix in Birmingham. The Sport Performance graduate, an ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church, clocked 7.63 as he finished runner-up to former University-based hurdler Andy Pozzi. Former Olympic and World Indoor champion Aries Merritt was third in 7.70. It was the second week running that Pozzi...

18 February 2017

Sporty students and Olympians head to Sheffield for BUCS Nationals

More than 200 student-athletes – and several Olympians – will represent the University of Bath across eight different sports when the BUCS Nationals take place in Sheffield this weekend. Rio 2016 swimming medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and James Guy, who all train at the University with the British Swimming National Centre Bath, are among those taking part in the major three-day competition. They, along with fellow Olympian and Chemical Engineering graduate Andrew Willis, will...

17 February 2017

REPLAY: Watch the University of Bath’s 42-17 defeat to the University of Exeter in full

The University of Bath's penultimate game of the BUCS Super Rugby regular season ended in a 42-17 defeat to South West rivals Exeter. Despite three tries from Bath forwards - George Frampton, captain Will Britton and Scott Russell - the Blue and Gold couldn't contain the home team who scored five second-half tries. The result means Bath will finish the season fifth in the table heading into the post-season playoffs during which they'll face a team...

16 February 2017