Team Bath Futures coach Grace Crompton and fellow University of Bath alumna Amy Wilson Hardy have been named in the Team GB women’s rugby 7s squad for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Sports Performance graduate Tim Nurse has also been selected as travelling reserve for a Team GB men’s hockey squad that includes former Team Bath Buccaneers defender Liam Sanford. It will be an Olympic debut for Crompton, who has been working on the Futures...
There was another two-medal haul for University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman and artistic swimming partner Izzy Thorpe as they continued their Paris 2024 Olympic Games preparations at the European Championships. Shortman and Thorpe secured silver in both the Tech Duet and Free Duet competitions in Belgrade, following on from their silver and bronze at the World Championships in February and Tech Duet gold at last month’s Olympic Test Event in Paris. “If someone...
David McNulty, Head Coach of the hugely-successful Aquatics GB Performance Centre squad based at the University of Bath, has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for his services to swimming. McNulty, an inductee into the University’s Hall of Fame for Sport, has coached swimmers to 11 medals at the past three Olympics and is now gearing up for another Games – the sixth of his outstanding career – on the Team GB...
Bath para-badminton star Dan Bethell is determined to go one step better than his history-making debut in Tokyo after being named in the ParalympicsGB squad for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Bethell, who started his para-badminton career as a youngster at the University of Bath and still does some of his training there, is ranked world number one in the SL3 men’s singles – the event in which he won ParalympicsGB’s first-ever medal in the...
Double gold-medallist Helen Glover and Olympic debutant Becky Wilde, both graduates of the British Rowing Performance Development Academy (PDA) at the University of Bath, have been confirmed in the Team GB squad for Paris 2024. It will be a fourth Games for Glover, who famously won women’s pair gold at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics with University of Bath alumna Heather Stanning. She will contest the women’s four this time with Esme...
The last international competition before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games saw the University of Bath-based British Fencing squad win three gold medals and two silver at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dimitri Coutya won double gold in the Category B foil and epee, overcoming China’s Benjun Qin in both finals – 15-11 and 15-13 respectively. Training partner Piers Gilliver was also victorious in the Category A sabre, beating Italy’s Edoardo Giordan...
University of Bath Rowing Club’s Becky Wilde is set to compete at Paris 2024 after successfully securing a women’s double scull space for Team GB at the Final Olympic Qualifying Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. Wilde, in her first full season with the senior GB Rowing Team, and partner Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne needed a top-two finish in today’s final and achieved that in fine style as they comfortably finished runners-up to Czechia. It is an outstanding...
With exactly 100 days to go until this summer’s Paralympic Games begin, swimmer Suzanna Hext has today become the first athlete who trains at the University of Bath to be selected by ParalympicsGB for Paris 2024. The reigning World Champion, who will be competing at her second Games after making her debut in Tokyo, does her strength and conditioning training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) with the UK Sports Institute (UKSI). A...
University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman has today been officially selected to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer. It will be a second Games for artistic swimmer Shortman and duet partner Izzy Thorpe, following their debuts at Tokyo 2020, and they will head to Paris this August after winning multiple breakthrough medals during the past 12 months. The duo, who train in Bristol, achieved the Paris qualification standard in...
University of Bath alumna Jess Varley was delighted to put a difficult 12 months behind her and keep her Olympic dreams alive by winning a superb silver at the UIPM Pentathlon World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pentathlon GB team-mate Emma Whitaker finished just outside the medals and Kate French placed 13th in a fiercely-fought women’s final, while Myles Pillage was 12th in the men’s final. All the athletes needed strong performances as they sought to...
