Student swimmer Anna Hopkin sprints to first British Championship title

University of Bath student Anna Hopkin celebrated her upcoming 21st birthday in style by winning 50m freestyle gold at the 2017 British Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Hopkin, who studies Sport & Exercise Science, set a new personal best of 25.07 as she beat Olympic silver-medallist and fellow Sports Training Village-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor to the sprint title on Thursday. “It feels amazing, it’s a really great feeling,” said Hopkin, who is part of Mark Skimming’s...

21 April 2017

Ben Fletcher back on international stage at 2017 European Judo Championships

Team Bath Judo’s Ben Fletcher will represent Great Britain once again when he competes at the 2017 European Championships in Warsaw, Poland, this weekend. The Rio 2016 Olympian, a sporting ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church, will contest the -100kg weight division on Saturday in the first major championship of the Tokyo 2020 cycle. Fletcher, coached by Juergen Klinger at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, has competed at three previous European Championships...

21 April 2017

Liam Sanford earns GB hockey call ahead of crunch play-off weekend for Team Bath Buccs

Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club’s Liam Sanford has followed up his recent senior England debut by being named in the Great Britain men’s squad for next week’s visit to the Sultan Azlan Shah Tournament in Malaysia. It continues a superb season for the young full-back, who made his England bow in South Africa last month after being added to the national central training programme. The Sultan Azlan Shah Tournament is an invitational event featuring four...

21 April 2017

Students set for Final test as rugby quartet bid for Women’s Premiership glory

Four University of Bath students and one famous graduate will be hoping to get their hands on the Women’s Premiership Rugby trophy this weekend. MJ Church sporting ambassador Sydney Gregson and Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) trio Lottie Holland, Jessie Hood and Chantelle Miell are all in the Bristol Ladies squad for Sunday’s Premiership final against Aylesford Bulls at Sixways Stadium in Worcester (3pm). Coach Education & Sports Development graduate Izzy Noel Smith, who recently...

20 April 2017

Double gold for Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy as Bath-based swimmers make strong start to British Champs

Olympic medallists Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy won their second titles in as many days as University of Bath-based swimmers continued to impress at the 2017 British Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Jazz Carlin, who won two silvers at Rio 2016, also picked up her first gold of the week as the British Swimming National Centre Bath elite training group added to their national medal collection. Guy (pictured), who moved to the Sports Training Village at...

19 April 2017

Footballing quartet represent England Universities in 2017 Home Nations tournament

Four University of Bath footballers represented England Universities at the recent 2017 Home Nations tournament in Scotland. Sport Performance student Flo Fyfe and Emily Donovan, who studies Sport and Social Sciences, were in the women’s team that beat Wales 3-1 but lost on penalties to Scotland after drawing 1-1. James Stinson and Lee Sweet, who are both in the third year of their Sport Performance course, played for the England men’s team that drew 0-0...

19 April 2017

From 12th in the country to number one – How a University of Bath student juggled studies and training to reach peak of UK fencing

University of Bath sport scholar Tom Edwards became British champion in 2015, has since won multiple Welsh titles and in January rose to number one in the UK's epee fencing rankings - all while studying a full-time degree. His rise from 12th in the country to top spot may be attributed to a number of different factors, including a specialised training programme which has seen the 23-year old train with Olympic athletes from Pentathlon GB, whose...

19 April 2017

“Hurting” Team Bath Netball vow to keep fighting ahead of Saturday showdown with Celtic Dragons

Head Coach Anna Stembridge admits Team Bath Netball are “hurting” after a run of four successive Vitality Superleague defeats but says they have not given up on a place in the end-of-season play-offs. Easter Monday’s battling 49-40 defeat to league leaders Loughborough Lightning has left the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold nine points adrift of the top four with eight games of the regular season remaining. The first two of those games are at home to...

18 April 2017

High praise for Donna Creighton as longest-serving skeleton athlete leaves University-based programme

Great Britain Skeleton have thanked Donna Creighton for her "wonderful contribution on and off the ice" after announcing that the 31-year-old will be leaving the University of Bath-based programme this summer. Creighton enjoyed a medal-laden career after joining the programme via the Talent ID scheme in 2004, winning the overall Intercontinental Cup (ICC) competition in 2015 and finishing third on the same circuit this season. She also competed at five World Championships between 2009 and 2017, and...

18 April 2017

Fantastic finale but Team Bath Netball comeback bid falls a goal short against Hertfordshire Mavericks

Team Bath Netball found their mojo in the final quarter of another thrilling Vitality Superleague match at the University of Bath Sports Training Village but fell an agonising goal short of denying Hertfordshire Mavericks victory.  Mavericks had led by nine going into the final 15 minutes before the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold finally found the form that had eluded them earlier in the encounter, closing the final deficit to just 46-45. The visitors had seemingly...

14 April 2017