Renowned for his flashy footwork and prolific points scoring, Cecil Afrika is a name that’s synonymous with Rugby Sevens. In an exclusive interview with SportsBoom.com he discusses South Africa’s Olympic chances and his focus on working with the women’s team. He may have finally hung up his own boots in 2022, but since July 2023,
The national governing body for the Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon, Pentathlon GB has won two prestigious awards for its World Championships held at the University of Bath in August 2023. Pentathlon GB scooped the Best Event category at this year’s Bath Awards 2024, and won the UIPM’s (The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne) Event
Team Bath and Rengen have today announced a three-year extension to their successful partnership supporting sport and fitness activities at the University of Bath. A leading company specialising in student, residential and commercial developments and lettings, Bath-based Rengen – whose CEO is University of Bath alumnus Iestyn Lewis – has been an official partner of
Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza Bryson won a brilliant bronze and there were top-10 finishes for fellow University of Bath-based athletes Kate French and Charlie Brown when Cairo hosted the first UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games season. Bryson went into the women’s final sitting in fifth place after the fencing ranking
Women in Sport reveals boys as young as five have learnt sport is not for girls as it launches bold campaign to challenge gender stereotyping New research from charity Women in Sport reveals that ‘sportiness’ is still seen as a fundamental part of a boy’s identity. With this, boys are finding it hard to break
Six players have been selected to play in the Croquet England Women’s select team for a test match against the winners of the 2023 Division 2 Inter-county Championship, Suffolk. The test match was first introduced in 2016, initially organized to encourage experience in competitive match play for the Women players of Croquet, whilst also preparing
Charlotte Purdue, Calli Hauger-Thackery and Phil Sesemann have been announced by the British Olympic Association (BOA) today as the first three marathon athletes selected in the athletics team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. After running inside the qualification standard [2:08:04] at the Seville marathon earlier this month, Sesemann has been selected for the men’s
An incredible second World Championships medal in the space of three days saw University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman and artistic swimming partner Izzy Thorpe book a Paris 2024 Olympic Games spot for Team GB in the duet programme. Having made history with their Tech Duet silver in Doha on Monday, British Swimming’s first-ever
University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman made artistic swimming history at a second successive World Championships as she and partner Izzy Thorpe won an incredible Women’s Duet Technical silver in Doha. It is Britain’s first-ever World Championships medal in a Duet event and came eight months after International Management and Modern Languages (French) student
University of Bath sporting scholar Leah Crisp says she is “over the moon” after securing a Paris 2024 Olympic Games quota place for Team GB in marathon swimming. The Economics and Mathematics student, supported by a Santander Sporting Scholarship, finished 17th overall in the women’s 10km race at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha
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