University of Bath-based swimmers will be out in force this week as the battle for places on England’s team for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games gets underway. The University is home to British Swimming’s National Centre for Swimming, where some of the country’s top swimmers train. The competition for places on the Scottish team got underway at last week’s Scottish Gas National Open Swimming Championships. Attention now turns to the British Gas Swimming Championships, which...
University of Bath graduate Michael Jamieson set qualification times for the Scotland Commonwealth Games team for both the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the Scottish National Open Swimming Championships. Jamieson, silver medallist for Scotland in the 200m breaststroke at the Commonwealths in Delhi four years ago, posted a qualification time of 2:08.01 to win the 200m breaststroke final. The Sports Performance graduate, who trains at British Swimming’s National Centre for Swimming at the University of...
Team Bath judo player Megan Fletcher has been selected for the European Championships in France later this month. Fletcher will compete in the individual under-70kg event and is also a member of the British squad for the team championships. Her selection follows some impressive performances at Pan American Open events in South America recently, where she won gold in Montevideo, Uruguay and followed that up with silver at Buenos Aires in Argentina. The European Championships,...
University of Bath-based swimmer Jemma Lowe aims to add to the bronze medal she won for Wales four years ago when she competes at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The double Olympian transferred to train at British Swimming's National Centre for Swimming at the University of Bath last year and says it's the perfect place for her to prepare for Glasgow and then the Rio Olympics in 2016. "I've got everything I need to be...
Olympic and Commonwealth silver medallist Michael Jamieson hopes to take a step closer to sealing a place at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games when he competes at this week’s Scottish Gas National Open Swimming Championships. The championships, which run from Thursday to Sunday (3 to 6 April), is the first selection event for swimmers aiming to represent Scotland at this summer’s Commonwealths. The first batch of Team Scotland swimmers will be selected after the Scottish...
Shooter Rosie Allison discusses playing netball for Team Bath and England and combining training with studying for a Biology degree at the University of Bath in our latest movie on Team Bath TV. "We're lucky to have so many talented players in Bath," she said. "It's intense, but we have a really good work ethic." And Rosie also discusses her goal of representing England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. To find out more,...
University of Bath-based Eilidh Child was among the first athletes to be selected for the Scotland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 400m hurdler featured on a 27-strong list of the first athletes named by Team Scotland for the home Games. Scotland have also announced they will field a women’s 4x400m relay team at the Games. Child is coached by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics Lead Hurdles Coach. She becomes the first...
