Eight University of Bath-based swimmers have been named in a 35-strong British Swimming squad for the 2023 European Short Course Championships, being staged in Bucharest, Romania from 5th to 10th December. Bill Whiteley Swimming Scholar Tom Dean will be looking to extend his run of medalling at major championships after being selected alongside fellow British Swimming Performance Centre Bath athletes Jono Adam, Freya Anderson, Cameron Brooker, Ed Mildred, Jacob Peters, Jacob Whittle and Brodie Williams....
University of Bath student swimmer Josh Gammon says he can take plenty of learning into a huge season ahead after racing at the World Aquatics World Cup in Budapest, Hungary. The Sports Performance student, who is reigning 200m butterfly British Champion, and training partners Niamh Ward and Jemima Hall all made their senior international debuts at the star-studded competition, which was the third leg of this year’s World Cup series. Gammon told the Propulsion Swimming...
Student swimmers at the University of Bath will be competing in Chile and Hungary over the next few days as they take to the international stage. Sam Williamson is heading to Santiago to represent Bermuda in the Pan American Games, which run from 20th October to 5th November. A busy gala will see the Sports Performance student contest the 100m and 200m breaststroke, 200m and 400m individual medley, and the 200m freestyle. Business student Jemima...
Team Bath Student Performance Sport athletes will be able to access free and professional mental health support 24 hours a day thanks to a new partnership with the Sporting Wellness charity. Nearly 300 young people who combine study and performance sport at the University of Bath will benefit from the service, which offers a 24/7/365 support helpline and live chat. They will also be able to arrange counselling, either in person, online or over the...
Olympic gold-medallist Amy Williams says it is important for children to enjoy sport and get active from a young age after becoming the first-ever Ambassador for Team Bath Tribe. Amy has a close personal connection to the youth sport programme, whose new term of activities start today (11th September), with her two young sons among the hundreds of children who take part in a wide range of sporting activities each week in the inspirational surroundings...
University of Bath student Jono Adam and training partner Ed Mildred won five medals between them, including three gold, at the inaugural LEN European U23 Swimming Championships in Dublin. Adam, who studies Sports Performance, was the first European home in the men’s 50m backstroke final on Saturday, touching the wall in 25.12 to edge out Greece’s Evangelos Makrygiannis by one-hundredth of a second. He repeated the feat in Sunday’s 100m backstroke final, again finishing runner-up...
Suzanna Hext won her second medal of the Manchester 2023 Allianz Para Swimming World Championships on Sunday as she added S5 100m freestyle silver to her 50m gold. Hext, who does her strength and conditioning training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, was leading until the closing 25m when Italy’s Monica Boggioni – the newly-crowned 200m freestyle champion – came through to take gold. Having been in hospital until just 48 hours before the World Championships began,...
Suzanna Hext won British Swimming’s first medal of the Manchester 2023 Allianz Para Swimming World Championships in magnificent style as she surged to S5 50m freestyle gold. Hext, who does her strength and conditioning training at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, touched the wall first in a new personal best time of 36.71, beating Ukraine’s Iryna Poida to gold by two-hundredths of a second. “It’s an honour to get the Great Britain team going,”...
Freya Anderson and University of Bath alumna Anna Hopkin helped British Swimming secure their final medal of the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatic Championships in record-breaking style. After narrowly missing out on the podium in the women’s 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays, British Swimming Performance Centre Bath athlete Anderson anchored the mixed 4x100m freestyle quartet to a bronze medal in 3:21.68, a new British and European record. It was Britain’s first-ever World Championships medal in the...
Kieran Bird and Joshua Gammon won double gold and Jemima Hall claimed a medal of each colour as University of Bath-based swimmers enjoyed an excellent British Summer Championships 2023 in Sheffield. British Swimming Performance Centre Bath swimmer Bird claimed victory in both the 200m freestyle (1:48.87) and 400m freestyle (3:53.24) at Ponds Forge, while Sports Performance student Gammon stormed to butterfly gold over 50m (23.53) and 100m (52.20). He narrowly missed out on a hat-trick...
