Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson collects hat-trick of titles at BUCS Short Course Swimming Champs

Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson collected a hat-trick of titles to help the University of Bath team to second place at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Short Course Swimming Championships. Despite still being in heavy training at the start of the season, Jamieson set a BUCS record of 2:06.65 to comfortably win the 200m breaststroke final. The University of Bath Sports Performance student followed that up with gold in the 50m breaststroke final...

05 November 2012

Tennis ace Samantha Murray lands Team Bath MCTA’s first Challenger title

Team Bath MCTA tennis player Samantha Murray has won the Aegon GB Pro-Series Glasgow title - the first Challenger event success for a Team Bath tennis player. In the final, 25 year-old Murray defeated seventh seed Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to win her first ever title at a Futures level. On her way to the final, unseeded Murray recorded some impressive wins over second seeded Romanian Cristina-Andreea Mitu, whom she beat in...

22 October 2012

Team Bath Judo’s Andy Burns strikes World Cup gold in Belarus

Team Bath judo player Andy Burns is celebrating one of the biggest wins of his career to date after taking World Cup gold in Belarus. The 27-year-old University of Bath Coach Education and Sports Development graduate beat Russia’s Magomedrasul Gashimov in the final of the under-90kg class in Minsk, following earlier victories against opponents from Uzbekistan and Poland. “This is probably the best result of my career along with my European under-23 medal,” said a...

15 October 2012

VIDEO: Magnificent seven celebrate success with students and staff after winning medals at London 2012

University of Bath students and staff took the opportunity to pay tribute to athletes linked to the University who won medals at London 2012. Hundreds of students and staff attended the London 2012 medallists celebration event held at the Founders Hall. Seven athletes with University links who won medals at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games attended the celebration. They included Sports Technology graduate Heather Stanning, who learned to row at the University and...

11 October 2012

City of Bath celebrates its London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heroes during open top bus parade

Bath residents turned out in force to pay tribute to the city’s London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heroes as they toured the city in a celebratory open top bus parade this morning (Wednesday). Twenty athletes took part in the parade – 13 Olympians across seven different sports and seven Paralympians who competed in  four sports at London 2012. Bath city centre came to a standstill as residents turned out to cheer on the athletes, who...

12 September 2012

London 2012: Bath athletes Ben Rushgrove and Paul Blake secure brilliant bronze brace at Paralympic Games

It was another sparkling night in the Olympic Stadium for University of Bath based athletes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, with Ben Rushgrove and Paul Blake both winning bronzes. Rushgrove, a University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, ran a fantastic bend to take bronze in the T36 200m final, in a personal best of 24.83 seconds.  He adds today's bronze to the silver he won over 100m four years ago in Beijing. “Now I've...

06 September 2012

London 2012: Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham wins sailing bronze at Paralympic Games

University of Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham has won sailing bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Rickham, who graduated with a Natural Sciences degree in 2004, won the medal for ParalympicsGB today partnering Niki Birrell in the SKUD 18 class. It was a good sailing campaign for Great Britain, with Helena Lucas also winning gold in the one-person 2.4mR class. They became the first British sailors to win Paralympic Games medals since the sport joined...

06 September 2012

London 2012: University of Bath swimmer Liz Johnson wins breaststroke bronze at Paralympic Games

Britain’s Liz Johnson won bronze in the SB6 100m breaststroke final at the London 2012 Paralympic Games tonight (Wednesday). The University of Bath based swimmer clocked a time of 1:40.90 to come home in third place behind Ukraine’s Viktoriia Savtsova, who set a Paralympic record, with Britain’s Charlotte Henshaw taking silver. Johnson’s bronze means she now has a full set of medals, after winning silver in Athens eight years ago and gold in Beijing in...

05 September 2012

London 2012: Silver for Paul Blake and bronze for Katrina Hart as University of Bath athletes excel at Paralympic Games

University of Bath based athlete Paul Blake tonight (Tuesday) sprinted to silver in the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The 22 year old, who is coached at the Sports Training Village by Rob Ellchuk, produced a classic 400m run in front of a capacity 80,000 crowd in the stadium Running in lane five in the T36 400m final against a strong and experienced field, he refused to let Russia’s Evgenii Shvetcov in...

04 September 2012

London 2012 Olympic Games round-up as University of Bath athletes enjoy home success

Medals, records and some history in the making – that was the University of Bath’s story in the sporting arenas at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where athletes with Bath links had a hand in Great Britain’s first and last medals of the Games. Past and present students and athletes from the University were in impressive form at the Olympics. Some 25 athletes who train at the University were selected to compete across seven sports...

03 September 2012