Team Bath BUCS Super Rugby freshers Eddie Erskine and Louie Hennessey earn U20 Six Nations call-ups with Scotland and Wales

Two more Team Bath BUCS Super Rugby players are in line to compete in this year’s U20 Men’s Six Nations after Scotland and Wales confirmed their 2023 squads. Centre Louie Hennessey (right in picture) only made his Wales U18 debut last summer but is making the step up to U20 level after impressing in his first season with Team Bath and Bath Rugby Academy. Fellow Sports Performance fresher Eddie Erskine, who plays in the second...

31 January 2023

Motion Storm blow Strength in Depth Origins Finals rivals away as Team Bath once again hosts world’s largest team fitness challenge

Nearly 1,000 competitors were pushed to their limits across two gruelling days and nine challenging events when the University of Bath once again hosted the world’s largest team fitness event. The WIT Strength in Depth Origins Finals 2023, which took place on Saturday and Sunday, saw hundreds of spectators cheer on 70 mixed teams of 12 as they tested their endurance in a transformed Team Bath Sports Training Village. The sports hall and indoor tennis...

30 January 2023

British Skeleton finish outstanding IBSF World Championships with gold, silver and bronze after claiming two mixed team medals

A superb IBSF Skeleton World Championships finished off on a suitably high note as University of Bath-based sliders won both silver and bronze in the mixed team race in St Moritz. The event is a new Olympic discipline for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games and saw Matt Weston – fresh from winning men’s skeleton gold on Friday – team up with PyeongChang 2018 bronze-medallist Laura Deas to win silver in a combined time of 2:25.04. Team-mate...

29 January 2023

Team Bath come through tough test after busy exam period to complete BUCS Super Rugby league double over Hartpury

Aaron James praised his Team Bath side’s “work and physicality” after they overcame a tough test from Hartpury to complete a BUCS Super Rugby league double over their West Country rivals. Converted tries from Duncan Hood, Ellis Horgan and Archie Griffin gave the Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV a 21-15 victory in a stop-start match played on the artificial surface at Dings Crusaders RFC in Bristol. It was the first match of the year...

27 January 2023

Skeleton star Matt Weston joins ranks of Bath-based World Champions after magnificent gold-medal success in St Moritz

Matt Weston has today become the latest University of Bath-based athlete to be crowned World Champion after winning men’s skeleton gold in magnificent fashion in St Moritz. The in-form slider, who was crowned European Champion last week, set a new course record on his way to becoming the first British man to win the global title since Kristan Bromley 15 years ago. Team-mates Craig Thompson and Marcus Wyatt went mighty close to joining him on...

27 January 2023

Olympian and University of Bath alumna Jo Muir “happy, content and excited” after announcing retirement from modern pentathlon

Tokyo Olympian Jo Muir has announced her retirement from modern pentathlon after a successful decade on the Pentathlon GB high-performance programme at the University of Bath. Muir, who combined training with studying Sports Performance during the early stages of her career, is bowing out on a high note having won European Championships silver on her last international appearance in September. “I’ve had the most amazing 10 years on the World Class Programme for Pentathlon GB,”...

24 January 2023

First-ever European Championships bobsleigh gold and Matt Weston’s skeleton title continues Bath-based sliders’ historic season

Great Britain won a first-ever European Championships gold medal in bobsleigh and Matt Weston claimed the men’s skeleton continental crown as University of Bath-based sliders continued their history-making season in style. Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett saw off all three German Olympic medallists on their home ice in Altenberg for a second successive week to strike gold in a race that doubled as World Cup 6 and the continental championships. "It’s...

23 January 2023

Double gold for Dimitri Coutya as Bath-based wheelchair fencers earn first medals of 2023 at IWAS World Cup in Washington DC

Dimitri Coutya won double gold in Washington DC as wheelchair fencers who train at the University of Bath picked up where they left off in 2022 by enjoying more medal success at the first IWAS World Cup of the year. World and European Champion Coutya, coached by Peter Rome at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, secured his first gold in the Category B epee with a dominant 15-5 win over Poland’s Michal Dabrowski in...

21 January 2023

Disappointment but plenty of positives to take from battling first-round exit for Team Bath Tennis star Alicia Barnett at Australian Open

Team Bath Tennis ace Alicia Barnett and partner Olivia Nicholls put in a battling performance on their Australian Open debuts before being edged out in the first round by Czechia’s Markéta Vondroušová and Miriam Kolodziejová. In an absorbing women's doubles contest that lasted more than two hours on Court 17, the Brits – in only their third Grand Slam – took the first set 6-3 and bounced back from an early break in the second...

20 January 2023

Paralympic champion Stephanie Millward provides inspiration for young Team Bath AS Performance Swimming Club trialists

Youngsters trying out for a new Pathway programme run by Team Bath AS Performance Swimming Club received a surprise visit from Paralympic champion Stephanie Millward. The University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport inductee brought along her gold medal from Rio 2016 to help inspire the children, aged 7-12 years, who were at the Team Bath Sports Training Village for trials in the Olympic-sized pool that Millward trained in for almost a decade. Nerves...

19 January 2023