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

University of Bath score three second-half tries to see off Leeds Beckett in final BUCS Super Rugby match of the year

University of Bath Men's Rugby 1st XV moved to fifth in the BUCS Super Rugby table to end 2016 after beating Leeds Beckett University 23-8 at Headingley Carnegie Stadium on Wednesday (Dec. 14). The result meant Bath would enter a six-week break with five wins and four losses from their opening nine matches, sitting six points behind Durham and three points ahead of Cardiff Met. in what appears to be evolving into a three-way mid-table...

15 December 2016

Strength and Conditioning Coach Bob Smith completes 50th half-marathon in 50 weeks with help from Team Bath athletes and staff

More than 50 Team Bath athletes and staff joined Strength and Conditioning Coach Bob Smith run his 50th half-marathon in just 50 weeks in aid of raising money for Bristol Children's Hospital. The outstanding achievement, which will be complete when Bob runs half-marathons 51 and 52 before the New Year, took his Grand Appeal total closer to the target of £12,000 he has set for the end of the year. Runners included Olympian Ben Fletcher...

14 December 2016