British Skeleton’s Matt Weston has been crowned as World Champion for the second time after the University of Bath-based slider capped an outstanding pre-Olympic season with a dominant performance in Lake Placid. Silver-medallist Marcus Wyatt made it a British 1-2 as he once again joined Weston on the podium, the team-mates replicating the magnificent form that had also seen them place first and second in the Overall IBSF World Cup men’s standings. Weston, who has...
The University of Bath men’s 1st XV will equal their best-ever finish in the BUCS Super Rugby league after a 24-12 win at Cardiff on Wednesday guaranteed third place overall in the 2024-25 table. Captain Max Pearce (pictured) scored a hat-trick of tries, two of them in the first half – both converted by Will Roue – which, along with a Harry Breeze touchdown, gave the visitors a 19-12 lead at the interval. Harrison James...
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...
A stunning last quarter saw Team Bath Netball rally from seven goals down to beat London Mavericks 52-51 as their first-ever NXT Gen League away fixture provided plenty of drama. The first half was evenly matched, with the scores locked at 14-14 after the opening quarter before Mavericks edged into a 28-27 lead at the interval. The home side looked to have opened up a decisive advantage as they stretched the gap to 42-35 after...
A determined defensive display ensured the University of Bath men’s 1st XV left Swansea with a hard-earned 28-14 victory which guaranteed them a top-four finish in the 2024-25 BUCS Super Rugby league table. Bath rallied from conceding an early converted try to score three of their own through Iwan Coyle (2) and George Doel to lead 21-7 at the interval. Swansea cut the deficit to seven points with another converted try 10 minutes into the...
Sidney Tancock secured a second successive Continental Open podium place and five medals were won at the Senior English Open during another excellent weekend of competition for Team Bath Judo. Tancock, fresh from winning silver in Tunis, gained more World Ranking points after defeating fellow Brit Ashleigh Barnikel in the -48kg bronze-medal bout at the Algiers African Open. [caption id="attachment_71621" align="alignright" width="292"] Sidney Tancock (right) with her fellow -48kg medallists in Algiers. CREDIT: African Judo...
Wheelchair fencing international Susie Seddon-Cowell has been named as the first winner of a new Rengen Athlete of the Month award for high-performing student-athletes on the Team Bath Breakthrough Programme. Seddon-Cowell, who combines her sport with a PhD Research Programme in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, recently achieved the best result of her international career to date when she placed eighth in the women’s Category A sabre at the Pisa World Cup in...
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,...
