British windsurfers Emma Wilson and Tom Squires earned top ten finishes at the RS:X World Championships – the last major regatta before the pair represent Team GB at Tokyo 2020. Wilson, who at 22 will be the youngest British sailor at the Games, came home fourth after five days of intense competition in Cadiz, Spain.
Nine University of Bath-based swimmers have today been officially selected by Team GB for this summer’s rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Double Rio 2016 medallist James Guy and former World Champion Ben Proud are joined in the 28-strong swimming squad by seven Olympic debutants – Freya Anderson, Kieran Bird, Jacob Peters, Matt Richards, Brodie Williams,
Upcoming sailors from the British Keelboat Academy were able to put their lockdown learning into practise on the water competing in the President’s Cup at Queen Mary SC. The inter-club one day fleet racing event is run by the Royal Thames YC for teams under the age of 37 and this is the second year
Team GB windsurfers Tom Squires and Emma Wilson are relishing a forecast for big breeze as they take on the RS:X World Championships – one of the last major events before Tokyo 2020. Squires is known for excelling in strong winds, and that’s just what the 46 male and 30 female athletes have in store
ParalympicsGB has today announced four archers who have been selected to represent Great Britain at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games this summer. Paralympic gold medallists Jess Stretton and John Stubbs are joined by Nathan Macqueen and Hazel Chaisty, who makes her Paralympic debut in Tokyo. The four athletes represent the second sport to be
Entry is now live for the RYA and BUSA Women’s Team Racing Championships at Rutland Sailing Club over the weekend of 12-13th June 2021. Rutland SC, host of the 2015 Team Racing World Championships, is looking forward to welcoming teams from across the UK for one of the biggest team racing events of the year.
Freya Anderson, Kieran Bird and James Guy all swam inside the Tokyo Olympic consideration time as University of Bath-based swimmers made an excellent start to the British Swimming Selection Trials at London’s Aquatic Centre. Anderson, coached by David McNulty at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, was the first swimmer to set the standard at
“No athletes have had to qualify for an Olympics during a global pandemic before and I know if I get to Tokyo I will have really achieved something.” After a qualification period unlike any other, the finish line is coming into sight for Team Bath judoka Megan Fletcher with Wednesday (14th) marking just 100 days
Freya Anderson says she is excited to finally be competing for Tokyo Olympic qualification as University of Bath-based swimmers head to the London Aquatics Centre for this week’s British Swimming Selection Trials. World, European and Commonwealth medallist Anderson is among 18 swimmers based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village taking part in the Trials,
Team Bath judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz recorded the best result of her international career to date – and gained more all-important Tokyo Olympic qualification points – when she won silver at the Panamerican Senior Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico this morning. Awiti-Alcaraz, a University of Bath Sports Performance alumna and member of the High Performance Judo squad
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