Jamaican bobsleigh team training at University of Bath to fine-tune their preparations for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

The Jamaican bobsleigh team have been at the University of Bath this week to finalise their preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Pilot Shanwayne Stephens and brakemen Nimroy Turgott, Ashley Watson and Matthew Wekpe have been honing their all-important start on the UK’s only outdoor push-start track, based on the University campus, and have also been working out in the Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre. Jamaica will contest the four-man event at...

25 January 2022

Sports Performance graduate Lloyd Wallace soars into second Team GB Winter Olympic Games squad after Beijing 2022 aerial skiing selection

University of Bath graduate Lloyd Wallace will represent Team GB at a second Winter Olympic Games after being named in the skiing squad for Beijing 2022. Wallace, who was supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship while studying Sports Performance at the University, will be Britain’s sole representative in the aerial skiing competition when it takes place on 15th and 16th February. Just 25 spots were available in the Olympic competition and Wallace’s place was confirmed...

21 January 2022

University of Bath to host 2023 UIPM Modern Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships, a Paris 2024 Olympic qualifying event

The University of Bath has today officially been chosen as host venue for the 2023 UIPM Modern Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships, which will take place from 19-28 August 2023. Tickets are now on sale - click here to visit the official event website to find out more. The combined World Championships will see athletes qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the Modern Pentathlon Championship being contested in the exciting new 90-minute...

20 January 2022

Bobsleigh stars looking to carry momentum of superb season into Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games after official Team GB selection

Six athletes with University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh will be looking to build on the sport’s most successful season in three decades at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games next month after officially being selected by Team GB today. Brad Hall will pilot Britain's men in both the two-man and four-man competitions after an excellent IBSF World Cup campaign which saw his crews win six medals and finish fourth overall in the four-man world rankings....

20 January 2022

Team Bath Netball quartet head home to start final Superleague prep after helping England to runners-up spot at 2022 Quad Series

Team Bath Netball’s England quartet had to settle for runners-up medals at the 2022 Quad Series but will take a lot of positives from the week overall. Captain Serena Guthrie and star defender Layla Guscoth started all four matches during the series, which looked to be heading for a home success when the Vitality Roses led 41-40 going into the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s final against Australia. However, the defending champions produced an excellent last...

19 January 2022

Bronze medallist among University of Bath-based British Skeleton quartet selected by Team GB for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

Skeleton athletes Brogan Crowley, Laura Deas, Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have today become the first University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected by Team GB for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. It is a second Games for Deas, who won bronze behind champion and compatriot Lizzy Yarnold at PyeongChang 2018, while Crowley, Weston and Wyatt will all be making their Olympic debuts when the skeleton events take place from 10-12 February. Deas...

19 January 2022

Sporting scholar Orlando Bailey earns first England Rugby call-up ahead of 2022 Six Nations as Grace Crompton is selected for Malaga 7s

University of Bath sporting scholar Orlando Bailey has been named in the senior England Rugby squad for the first time as preparations begin for the 2022 Guinness Six Nations. International Development with Economics student Bailey, who is supported by a Matrix Scholarship, has been in fine form for Bath Rugby this season and a regular starter in the Premiership at fly-half. He is among six uncapped players named by Eddie Jones in a 36-strong England...

18 January 2022

Dan Cox and Caijsa Wilda Hennemann win ITF World Tennis Tour event at Team Bath as 2022 LTA Competitions Calendar begins

Great Britain’s Dan Cox and Sweden’s Caijsa Wilda Hennemann claimed the GB Pro Series singles titles at the end of a high-quality week of international tennis at the University of Bath. A 6-4 7-6(5) victory over Charlie Broom in Saturday’s hard-fought men’s M25 final secured a 16th ITF title of his career for Cox, who has twice played in the main draw at Wimbledon. He knocked out number one seed Billy Harris in the quarter-finals,...

18 January 2022

Most successful World Cup season since 1990s gives British Bobsleigh a timely boost ahead of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

British Bobsleigh’s Brad Hall and his four-man crew finished the 2021-22 IBSF World Cup season in a career-high fourth place in the overall rankings after another strong showing in St Moritz on Sunday. Hall, Taylor Lawrence, Nick Gleeson and Greg Cackett clocked the fourth fastest start time in each run as they set a combined time of 2:09.97 for eighth place in the final race of the World Cup season in Switzerland. It means it...

17 January 2022

Team Bath Netball Superleague stars inspire England to double victory in Quad Series and help Wales record home series success

Team Bath Netball stars Layla Guscoth and Serena Guthrie were named as Player of the Match against South Africa and New Zealand respectively as England made an outstanding start to the 2022 Quad Series. Goal-defence Guscoth was in fantastic form as the Vitality Roses stormed to a 71-47 victory over the SPAR Proteas on Saturday, the biggest win in Quad Series history. Fellow Blue & Gold stars Imogen Allison and Sophie Drakeford-Lewis came off the...

16 January 2022