British Champs win ensures Team Bath AC’s Tom Gale will join high jump training partner Levern Spencer at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

University of Bath-based high jumpers Tom Gale and Levern Spencer are heading to their first and fourth Olympic Games respectively this summer after securing their Tokyo 2020 places. Team Bath Athletics Club's Gale, who set the Olympic qualifying standard back in February 2020, produced a first-time clearance of 2.24m to claim victory at this weekend’s Muller British Championships and confirm his place on the plane to Japan with Team GB.   View this post on...

27 June 2021

‘Buzzing’ Team Bath Netball through to Vitality Superleague Grand Final after overcoming Manchester Thunder in epic contest

Team Bath Netball are through to their first Vitality Superleague Grand Final for eight years after coming out on top in a magnificent contest against Manchester Thunder at London’s Copper Box Arena. A sensational semi-final saw the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold battle back from an early deficit to edge the first quarter 12-10. Inspired by some phenomenal defending, relentless drive from mid-court and clinical attacking, they increased the gap to three goals at half-time...

26 June 2021

University of Bath student Jack Kenningham caps dream debut season by helping Harlequins win Premiership Rugby title

University of Bath student Jack Kenningham completed his remarkable rise from BUCS Super Rugby student player to Premiership Rugby champion after helping Harlequins to title glory at Twickenham on Saturday. Kenningham, who is graduating from his Sports Performance degree course this summer, played a key role in the back row and produced the most tackles of any Quins player - 22 - as they defeated defending champions Exeter Chiefs 40-38 in an incredible final. It...

26 June 2021

University of Bath Vice-Chancellor wishes Tokyo Olympics-bound Team GB modern pentathletes congratulations and good luck

Professor Ian White, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bath, has visited the Team GB modern pentathletes training on campus to wish them congratulations and good luck ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Joe Choong, Jamie Cooke, Kate French and Jo Muir – who all train with Pentathlon GB at the University – were this week officially selected for the rescheduled Games, which begin in four weeks’ time. They, along with reserves Francesca Summers...

25 June 2021

Team GB officially select University of Bath-based modern pentathlon quartet for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Pentathlon GB quartet Joe Choong, Jamie Cooke, Kate French and Jo Muir have today become the latest University of Bath-based sportspeople to be selected by Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Francesca Summers and Tom Toolis have been named as reserves for the British squad aiming to secure more modern pentathlon medals on the international stage this summer after a hugely-successful season. It will be a second Games for Choong, Cooke and French,...

24 June 2021

From BUCS Super Rugby to Premiership final – Bath student Jack Kenningham all set to cap breakthrough season with Harlequins RFC

University of Bath student Jack Kenningham will be looking to cap a breakthrough season by lifting the Gallagher Premiership Rugby trophy with Harlequins this weekend. Kenningham, who is graduating in Sports Performance this summer, made his top-flight debut for Quins in February and has gone on to become a regular starter in the back-row with some powerful performances in the club’s famous number 7 shirt. [caption id="attachment_64662" align="alignright" width="292"] Jack Kenningham taking to the pitch...

23 June 2021

Last-day defeat to Loughborough Lightning means Team Bath will face Manchester Thunder in Vitality Superleague semi-finals

Team Bath Netball will play Manchester Thunder in the Vitality Superleague semi-finals after defeat to Loughborough Lightning in the final match of the regular season saw them finish third overall. Monday’s 54-35 reverse at the Copper Box Arena saw the Haines Watt-sponsored Blue & Gold finish behind Lightning and Thunder on goal difference, with all three teams locked on 51 points having recorded an impressive 17 wins from their 20 matches. There was little to...

21 June 2021

Team GB select University of Bath alumnae and former Team Bath Buccs player in Tokyo Olympic rugby sevens and hockey squads

University of Bath graduates Deborah Fleming and Natasha Hunt have today been named in the Team GB women’s rugby sevens squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Former Team Bath Buccaneers player Liam Sanford has also been selected in the Team GB men’s hockey squad for this summer’s rescheduled Games. It will be a first Olympics for Sport & Social Sciences graduate Fleming (pictured), who represented the University in both netball and athletics – winning...

18 June 2021

History is made as British Bobsleigh four-man crew are retrospectively upgraded to first-ever World Cup gold

Lamin Deen, Ben Simons, Toby Olubi and Andrew Matthews, who train at the University of Bath, have made history after they were retrospectively upgraded to a World Cup gold medal in the 4-man bobsleigh. Deen and his team originally won silver in Whistler in November 2017 but they have now been confirmed as race winners after the disqualification of Russia’s Alexander Kasjanov for a doping offence. The result is Great Britain’s first-ever 4-man World Cup...

17 June 2021

From Team Bath Futures to fulfilling Olympic medal dream – Siobhan-Marie O’Connor announces retirement from competitive swimming

Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, who progressed from the Team Bath Futures programme to become an Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medallist, has today announced her retirement from competitive swimming after an outstanding career. O’Connor first took to the pool at the University of Bath Sports Training Village aged nine and went on to train there for almost all of the following 16 years, first under the guidance of first Mark Skimming and then David McNulty with the...

16 June 2021