Medals galore for skeleton sliders as luge athletes make history at European Champs

It was a weekend to remember for winter-sport athletes who train at the University of Bath as they made an impressive return to the international circuit. The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association enjoyed a medal-laden visit to Park City in Utah as rising skeleton star Madelaine Smith (pictured) won back-to-back gold medals in the first North American Cup event of 2017. Team-mate Donna Creighton was runner-up to Smith on both occasions, while the men’s races...

09 January 2017

Plenty of home cheer as Team Bath Netball win entertaining tri-tournament

Team Bath Netball provided a sell-out home crowd with plenty to cheer as they came out on top in a well-contested tri-tournament against Loughborough Lightning and Wasps Netball at the University of Bath on Saturday. After beating Lightning 39-26 in the opening match, the Blue and Gold – sponsored by Sitec – then came from behind to overcome a battling Wasps outfit 36-27 in the decisive third fixture of an action-packed afternoon. Vitality Netball Superleague...

07 January 2017

Another top-six finish for Laura Deas as skeleton and bobsleigh action returns for 2017

University of Bath-based slider Laura Deas started 2017 as she had finished 2016 – by securing a wider-podium place on the World Cup circuit.  After finishing sixth in Lake Placid in December, Deas matched that result on Friday morning in Altenberg, Germany as the international skeleton season resumed after the Christmas break. Fellow Brit Lizzy Yarnold was ninth and slipped down to second in the overall World Cup standings after three races behind Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling,...

06 January 2017

VIDEO: Olympic medallist Samantha Murray sees how sport is changing lives at Zaatari refugee camp

Olympic silver-medallist Samantha Murray has paid an emotional visit to a refugee camp in Jordan to see how sport is having a positive impact on the lives of people displaced by the civil war in Syria. The University of Bath French & Politics graduate, who trains with Pentathlon GB at the Sports Training Village, is one of four Olympic athletes to take part in the Olympic Channel’s Camps To Champs documentary series. Shortly before competing at...

05 January 2017

Olympic medallist Eilidh Doyle to take on Rio champion in first race of 2017

University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle will kick-start 2017 by competing against Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham. Both Doyle, who won 4x400m relay bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and fellow hurdler Muhammad will contest the 400m flat at the world-class event on February 18. “There is a really big year ahead with the World Championships taking place in London and the Muller Indoor Grand Prix will be...

03 January 2017

Royalty, rugby and Rio glory – a 50th-anniversary year to remember at University of Bath

Outstanding success at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games plus the visit of sporting and actual royalty ensured that the University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style during 2016. When the University received Royal Charter status on October 25, 1966, there were no sporting facilities on the Claverton Down campus. Five decades later, it has developed into what Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley believes is “the most vibrant, exciting and dynamic sporting...

26 December 2016

Fantastic 13 golds as University of Bath swimmers make big splash at National Winter Meet

University of Bath-based swimmers won a terrific 23 medals – 13 of them gold – during four fantastic days of short-course competition at the 2016 ASA National Winter Meet. Leading the way at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, with five titles was Sports Performance graduate Calum Jarvis (pictured left) who struck gold in the 100m butterfly (51.34), 100m freestyle (47.91) and 200m freestyle (1:44.96). He also teamed up with Joseph Hulme, Charlie Attwood and Jay Lelliott to take...

19 December 2016

Super silvers provide Christmas cheer for British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association

Silver medals for Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold and the two-man bobsleigh crew of Bruce Tasker and Toby Olubi ensured a memorable weekend of international racing for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Yarnold, in just her second race back after a season-long sabbatical, followed up her fourth-placed finish in Whistler a fortnight ago by finishing runner-up to Austria’s Janine Flock at the latest World Cup meeting in Lake Placid. Those...

18 December 2016

University of Bath celebrated at national Sports Journalists’ Association awards

Heather Stanning, the British Army officer and double Olympic Champion who learnt to row and was nurtured into the British team whilst studying at the University of Bath, has won a national award. She and Olympic rowing partner Helen Glover, who were coached in Bath by Paul Stannard as part of the GB Rowing Team Start programme, scooped the President’s Award in the annual, national Sports Journalists’ Association poll. They received their trophy from Patrick...

16 December 2016

Team Bath Buccaneers Ladies captain and first-team manager Janet Gubbin called up to England squad for Masters Indoor World Cup

Team Bath Buccaneers' Janet Gubbin has been selected by England to play in the inaugural Masters Indoor World Cup. The event, to be held in Germany from Feb 2-5 2017, will also feature Sweden, Switzerland, the USA, Italy, the Netherlands in the W40 event. After her selection, Gubbin (pictured, right) said: "I'm really pleased to have been selected for England. "It's taken some time for it to sink in, but now I'm very excited!" For more...

15 December 2016