It was a successful weekend for University of Bath-based rowers past and present when they contested the 2025 GB Rowing Team Senior and U23 Selection Trials at Caversham. And there was another magical moment for Paris 2024 medallist Becky Wilde when she was named as rowing's BOA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year during the post-event presentation ceremony. Four current members of the South West Performance Development Academy (PDA), formerly known as the GB Rowing...
Olympic Champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird are among a 49-strong cohort of University of Bath-based swimmers heading to the London Aquatics Centre for the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2025. The first British titles of the LA 2028 Olympic cycle and places in the GB squad for this summer’s World Championships in Singapore will be decided during six days of action, from Tuesday 15th to Sunday 20th April. Triple Olympic gold-medallist Dean, who only returned...
Sporting scholar Justin Davies has been named as the latest Team Bath Rengen Athlete of the Month after a fantastic February which saw him smash national records, win a first British title and qualify for the European Athletics Championships. The Team Bath AC athlete, who trains and studies at the University of Bath, has enjoyed an excellent winter campaign which has seen him slice nearly four seconds off his 800m indoor personal best. His winning...
A host of University of Bath students, graduates and coaches played key roles as Bath Rugby ended their 17-year wait for silverware with an outstanding 48-14 victory over Exeter Chiefs in the 2024-25 Premiership Rugby Cup Final. Management student Tom Carr-Smith grabbed the first of seven Bath tries and Sports Performance alumnus Tom Dunn touched down twice on a perfect Sunday afternoon at Sandy Park. Joining Carr-Smith in the starting line-up were fellow students Jasper...
Reigning Olympic champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird plus a quartet of sporting scholars are among the eight University of Bath-based swimmers confirmed on Aquatics GB’s World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2025 season. Bird and triple Olympic champion Dean, who both won men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold for Team GB at Paris 2024, are joined on the Podium tier by Bath Performance Centre training partners Jacob Peters and Jacob Whittle. The Podium Potential athletes...
It was a historic weekend for University of Bath sporting scholar Ranjuo Tomblin as he won two breakthrough gold medals for Britain at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup season opener in Paris. The Sports Performance student, who is supported by a Trendell Sporting Scholarship, became the first British male to win a World Cup medal when he came out on top in a supremely contested Men’s Tech Solo competition, with less than a...
University of Bath sporting scholar Justin Davies continued his excellent season by winning 800m gold in fine style at the 2025 Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Sunday’s success, which followed on from Davies setting a new Welsh record of 1:45.78 the previous week at the inaugural Keely Klassic, secured the Team Bath AC runner a trip to the Netherlands for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking place in Apeldoorn from 6-9 March....
Eight University of Bath students have now competed in the 2025 U20 Six Nations tournament after Connor Treacey and Tyler Offiah made their England age-group debuts against Scotland, while Jack Woods started for Wales. Treacey and Offiah, who study Sports Management & Coaching and Politics & International Relations respectively, came off the bench as England made it three wins from a three with a nine-try 57-13 victory. Two of those tries came from another student,...
University of Bath student-athletes won 21 medals, including gold in the swimming pool and on the athletics track, when they proudly represented The SU Bath at the BUCS Nationals 2025 in Sheffield. Sixteen of those medals were secured by the University’s swimming squad during an excellent weekend which saw them place third in the overall rankings. Alumni Fund Sporting Scholar Josh Gammon led the way with gold in both the 50m butterfly (23.72) and 200m...
Six University of Bath students have been selected for the 2025 U20 Men's Six Nations, with four of them being named in England’s match-day 23 for the tournament’s opening fixture against Ireland. Tighthead prop Billy Sela (Sports Performance), who helped England win the title in 2024, lines up in the front row alongside Sports Management and Coaching student Kepu Tuipulotu. The hooker will earn his first U20 cap in Thursday’s international, as will Economics with...
