Paris 2024
Athletes who train, study and studied at the University of Bath once again excelled on the greatest sporting stage of all when they competed at Paris 2024.
The Olympic Games took place from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with Bath-associated athletes winning six medals in total (click here to read a round-up), and the Paralympic Games were held from 28 August to 8 September 2024, where Bath-based athletes brought home 11 medals between them (click here for more details).
Swimmer Tom Dean won the third gold medal of his Olympic career as Britain successfully defended their men’s 4x200m freestyle relay title, while Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre team-mate Kieran Bird also brought home gold after a crucial heats swim.
Wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya then secured two Paralympic gold medals in the magnificent Grand Palais, winning the Category B epee and foil crown in fine style.
Roll of honour
Selected athletes
Thirty athletes who either train, study or studied at the University – 23 for the Olympics, seven for the Paralympics – were selected to compete at Paris 2024 across a host of sports including artistic swimming, athletics, para-badminton, hockey, modern pentathlon, rowing, rugby 7s, swimming and wheelchair fencing.
Click here to see a full list of selected athletes
Results archive
Marking milestones
To celebrate six months to the Olympic Games, Olympians and Paralympians training at the University were visited by Lucy Frazer, the then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
She was accompanied on the tour of the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) – a UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre – by Dame Katherine Grainger, Chair of UK Sport, and spoke to a number of athletes and coaches including double Tokyo 2020 swimming gold-medallist Tom Dean, reigning modern pentathlon Olympic champions Joe Choong and Kate French, and Paralympic wheelchair fencing champion Piers Gilliver. Click here to read the full story.
