PyeongChang 2018: Training group of champions helps slider Jackie Narracott complete her journey from Brisbane to Bath to Winter Olympics

Her training group includes Paralympic, World and Commonwealth champions, while her uncle competed at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Now University of Bath-based skeleton athlete Jackie Narracott is ready to make her own mark on the global multi-sport stage when she takes to the ice for her native Australia at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Narracott, from Brisbane, has been a regular competitor on the ISBF World Cup circuit during this Olympiad...

13 February 2018

PyeongChang 2018: Fast times provide encouraging start to official practice for skeleton athletes

It has been an encouraging start to official practice for University of Bath-based skeleton athletes at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Laura Deas recorded the second-fastest time on the first run, then went quickest on the next with just nine-hundredths of a second separating her two times. Defending champion Lizzy Yarnold was third and fourth fastest on her two outings, while Jackie Narracott – representing Australia – was tenth and 16th respectively. University of...

12 February 2018

Double delight for Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke as University of Bath hosts second Pentathlon GB ranking comp

Olympians Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke made it two wins from two when the University of Bath Sports Training Village hosted the second Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition of 2018 over the weekend. London 2012 silver-medallist and former World Champion Murray led the women’s competition from start to finish, taking top spot ahead of up-and-coming young athletes Kerenza Bryson and Zoe Davison. Cooke had dominated the first men’s National Ranking Competition last month but was...

11 February 2018

Team Bath Netball up and running in 2018 Superleague with opening-day victory at Team Northumbria

A well-earned 52-39 victory at Team Northumbria and the opportunity to give all 12 squad members some game time made for an encouraging start to the 2018 Vitality Netball Superleague season for Team Bath Netball. The Blue and Gold, sponsored by Sitec, won three quarters and were edged out by just one goal in the other as they came through an intense opening match at Newcastle’s Sport Central on Saturday evening. Click here to read...

10 February 2018

Perfect week for Anna Smith and team-mates as GB make progress in Fed Cup

Team Bath Tennis player Anna Smith helped Great Britain enjoy a perfect week of Fed Cup competition and secure their place in the World Group II play-off. Smith and team-mates Johanna Konta, Katie Boulter and Heather Watson, pictured with captain Anne Keothavong, won all of their rubbers as they swept through their Euro/Africa Zone Group I ties in Estonia to maintain their chances of returning to the elite level of the women’s team competition. Doubles...

10 February 2018

PyeongChang 2018: Who to watch and when at the Winter Olympic Games

The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games officially begin in South Korea this morning – and there will be plenty of University of Bath interest over the next 16 days. Sixteen athletes who train at the University’s £30million Sports Training Village will be in action, including 14 from the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Among them are reigning Olympic women’s skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold and bobsleigh brakeman Joel Fearon, who is in line to receive...

09 February 2018

PyeongChang 2018: History-maker Kelly Gallagher heading to third Winter Paralympic Games

University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher, who made history at Sochi 2014, has today secured her place in the ParalympicsGB team for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games. Gallagher became the first British athlete to win a gold medal on snow in either Olympic or Paralympic competition when she topped the podium in the women’s super-G at Sochi 2014 with guide Charlotte Evans. The Mathematics graduate, who this time will be guided by Gary Smith,...

08 February 2018

PyeongChang 2018: Skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold to carry flag for Team GB at Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

Reigning women’s skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold will lead Team GB into tomorrow’s PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony after being selected as flag bearer. The Sochi 2014 gold-medallist, who trains with the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) at the University of Bath, is aiming to become the first British Winter Olympian to defend her title. Yarnold, who carried the flag at the closing ceremony in 2014, said: “My first reaction when I was...

08 February 2018

Fifty up as University of Bath men’s 1st XV end BUCS Super Rugby home season in style

The University of Bath men’s 1st XV brought the curtain down on their 2017-18 BUCS Super Rugby home campaign in fine style as they beat Nottingham Trent 50-25 at the Sports Training Village on Wednesday. On a bitterly cold night, Bath – sponsored by IKON Construction and supported by Investigo – warmed up the crowd by running in seven tries on the way to their biggest win of the season. Charlie Dunbar, Jack Davies and...

07 February 2018

Last chance to watch BUCS Super Rugby at University of Bath this season as Nottingham Trent pay first visit

The University of Bath will host its final BUCS Super Rugby league game of the 2017-18 season tonight (6.30pm) when Nottingham Trent University make their first visit to the Sports Training Village. Nottingham Trent are looking for their first win since being promoted to the league last season but ran Team Bath all the way in the reverse fixture, with Will Flinn’s last-kick conversion giving the visitors a dramatic 27-26 victory. Team Bath, sponsored by...

07 February 2018