Triathlete Vicky Holland says the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games were “a career-defining moment” for her – and she is hoping the Gold Coast 2018 edition will provide a similar milestone after a year plagued by injury problems. The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze-medallist will be the first of the 30 University of Bath-based sportspeople at the Games to compete in a final when she lines up in the women’s individual competition on Thursday (12.31am BST). It...
The Isle of Man is taking a team of 32 to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games – and three of them are based at the University of Bath. Swimmer Guy Davies and badminton player Jessica Li are both students at the University, studying Biology and Economics & Mathematics respectively, while Ben Li – Jessica’s older brother and mixed doubles partner – has been training with the University’s badminton squad in the build-up to the...
The University of Bath student swimming squad will once again be represented on the global stage when Anna Hopkin and Miles Munro compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Both combine their studies – in Sport & Exercise Science and Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering respectively – with an intensive but supportive training programme at the University’s world-renowned Sports Training Village, using the Olympic-sized London 2012 Legacy Pool and the state-of-the-art Team Bath Gym....
University of Bath graduates Deborah Fleming, Natasha Hunt and Amy Wilson Hardy have been named in the Team England women’s rugby sevens squad for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. It is the first time that the sport will have been contested at a Commonwealth Games, with England being drawn against Fiji, host nation Australia and Wales in Pool B. Hunt, who studied Coach Education & Sports Development, and Wilson Hardy, an Integrated Mechanical &...
After missing out on a medal by just six-hundredths of a second at Rio 2016, swimmer Chloe Tutton – the latest Olympian to move her training base to the University of Bath – is determined to get on the podium when she races at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games next week. The 21-year-old, who joined the renowned British Swimming National Centre Bath training group last month, is one of 11 University-based swimmers who will...
Olympic legend Dame Katherine Grainger was the guest of honour when the University of Bath hosted the UK's first Commonwealth Big Lunch this week. The event doubled as a rousing send-off for the 30 University-based sportspeople who will be competing at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and a chance to welcome skeleton bronze-medallist Laura Deas back to her home training base after her PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games heroics. TeamBathTV caught up with Dame Katherine,...
Some of the country’s top sportspeople joined dignitaries, students and local schoolchildren at the University of Bath today to celebrate its links to both the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The Commonwealth Big Lunch, organised and hosted in conjunction with UK Sport, saw 130 guests enjoy food from around the Commonwealth in the first of a nationwide series of events building up to the Commonwealth Heads of Governnment...
Sporting scholar Jenny Nesbitt has become the 30th University of Bath-based sportsperson to be selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after she was called into the Welsh athletics squad. The news comes a day before the University celebrates its Gold Coast links with a Commonwealth Lunch that will be attended by a host of the selected sportspeople, students from 22 Commonwealth nations and dignitaries including Guest of Honour Dame Katherine Grainger, the Chair...
There were six golds amongst a 14-medal haul for University of Bath-based swimmers at the 2018 British Swimming Championships, which were incorporated into the Edinburgh International Meet. Despite being in heavy training for next month’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer James Guy was able to add two more national titles to his haul. He was a second clear of the field in the 200m butterfly, clocking 1:58.05, and then...
Chelsea Lewis has become the third Team Bath Netball player to be selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after her place in the Wales squad was confirmed on Thursday. The prolific goal-shooter, who can also play goal-attack, has vast international experience having played at two Netball World Cups, in 2011 and 2015, and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. “I am so honoured to be selected to represent Wales at Gold Coast 2018,” said...
