Jazz Carlin added 400m freestyle gold to her 800m title as University of Bath-based swimmers finished the LEN European Short-Course Championships in Israel with seven medals between them. Siobhan-Marie O’Connor was runner-up in both the 100m and 200m individual medley, while Chris Walker-Hebborn won backstroke silver and bronze. That added to the 200m breaststroke bronze won by Chemical Engineering graduate Andrew Willis on day two of the event in Netanya, with Great Britain – led...
Head Coach Dave McNulty and four swimmers from the National Centre at the University of Bath are heading to Netanya, Israel for the LEN European Short Course Championships. Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn are among five World Champions in the 12-strong team, which will be led by McNulty. Also looking to round off the year in style are Jazz Carlin, a bronze-medallist at the World Championships, and University of Bath graduate Andrew Willis, who finished...
It’s where they study, where they train and could be where they set the Olympic qualifying standard – the University of Bath really is home from home for modern pentathletes Joe Choong and Tom Toolis. The two up-and-coming talents will be among the eight Pentathlon GB athletes competing at the Sports Training Village from August 18-23 when it hosts the European Championships, a qualifying event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Both have seen their sporting...
University of Bath-based swimmer Michael Jamieson finished fourth in the 200m breaststroke final at the Phillips 66 US National Championships in San Antonio, Texas on Monday. The London 2012 Olympic Games silver-medallist clocked 2:10.91 in a race won by fellow Scot Craig Benson in 2:09.68. Michael Phelps, the 22-time Olympic medallist, was fifth in 2:11.30. Jamieson, who trains at the British Swimming National Centre Bath, competed in the United States after missing out on a place at the...
Jazz Carlin won a fourth medal of the week for University of Bath-based swimmers at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia when she bagged a gutsy 800m freestyle bronze on Saturday. Carlin, who finished an agonising fourth in the 400m final on Sunday, fought all the way to claim the first individual World medal of her career in 8:18.15 – just two-tenths of a second ahead of Australia’s Jessica Ashwood. USA’s Katie Ledecky stormed...
University of Bath graduate Calum Jarvis struck gold at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia on Friday as part of an outstanding British 4x200m freestyle relay quartet. The Sports Performance graduate, swimming in leg three, started in third place after good work by Dan Wallace and Robbie Renwick. He swam superbly to maintain that position before handing over to individual champion James Guy, who produced a phenomenal final leg to overhaul the United...
University of Bath graduate Andrew Willis will contest his third successive FINA World Championships final in Kazan, Russia on Friday after impressing in the heats and semis. Willis, who completed his Chemical Engineering degree this summer, was second-fastest in the 200m breaststroke heats on Thursday morning. He then clocked 2:08.72 – just outside his personal best – in the semi-finals to progress as fifth quickest. Having finished eighth in Shanghai in 2011 and fourth in...
Chris Walker-Hebborn and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor helped Great Britain’s mixed 4x100m medley relay team set a new world record during a golden evening at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. The swimmers, who both train with the British Swimming National Centre at the University of Bath, teamed up with Adam Peaty and Fran Halsall to touch the wall first in 3:41.71 in Wednesday’s final. Backstroke specialist Walker-Hebborn got the British quartet off to a superb...
Siobhan-Marie O’Connor became the first University of Bath-based swimmer to win a medal at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia when she took 200m individual medley bronze on Monday. The 19-year-old, coached by Dave McNulty and Graeme Antwhistle at the British Swimming National Centre Bath, held off fast-finishing American Maya Di Rado to finish third in 2:08.77, just outside her personal best. Hungarian Katinka Hosszu won gold in a sensational world-record time of...
Jazz Carlin won two gold medals as swimmers from the British Swimming National Centre at the University of Bath competed in the Canet, France leg of the Mare Nostrum Series over the weekend. The European and Commonwealth champion, who moved to the Sports Training Village in the autumn, clocked 16:09.69 – the eighth-fastest time in the world this year – to win the 1,500m freestyle on Saturday. She then claimed victory in Sunday’s 400m freestyle...
