ParalympicsGB has today announced the first members of the British team set to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which begin in August this year. Six shooting Para sport athletes will take aim in Tokyo having been selected to represent ParalympicsGB at the rescheduled Games this summer. Paralympic medallists Matt Skelhon and James Bevis,
The British Olympic Association (BOA) will this year mark 125 years of British athletes attending Olympic Games. As well as the re-arranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July and August, throughout 2021 the BOA will be honouring its athletes from the inaugural Games at Athens 1896 and re-telling the stories of some of the country’s
The RYA has welcomed the creation of a new sailing series aimed at promoting and growing shorthanded offshore sailing in the UK. The UK Double Handed Offshore Series will be a standalone series debuting in 2021 made up of sixexisting races including flagship events such as the Rolex Fastnet Race and Round the Island Race.
Bath Rugby and Team Bath Netball players, aspiring Olympians and international medallists are among 16 high-performing University of Bath student-athletes selected to receive scholarship support on both their sporting and academic journeys. The new intake of sporting scholars for 2020-21, who compete across nine different sports and study across 11 diverse courses, each receive a
DAME KATHERINE GRAINGER, one of Britain’s top Olympians ever, brought her unique insight to the judging panel of this year’s William Hill Sports book awards. Katherine penned her own autobiography ‘Dreams Do Come True’. It made the longlist in 2014 and stood out because the vast majority of sports books are not actually written by
Freya Anderson eclipsed her own British record and Tom Dean claimed another eye-catching victory as University of Bath-based swimmers shone once again for London Roar in the grand final of the 2020 International Swimming League in Budapest, Hungary. Anderson, who joined the British Swimming National Centre Bath high-performance squad this summer, has been in fantastic
2.4 million adults in England alone struggle with reading, with over 4,000 adults estimated to need help to learn to read in Bath alone. On a practical level, not being able to read means that even carrying out everyday tasks can be very challenging, if not impossible. Many adults who have difficulty with reading have
The British Sailing Team’s kite foil racers have won a prestigious UK Sport award in recognition of their success over the past two years. The Formula Kite Mixed Relay team scooped the award for the Biggest Turnaround or Breakthrough in High Performance Sport at the annual UK Sport PLx Awards. The awards ceremony celebrates achievement
Team GB selected windsurfers Emma Wilson and Tom Squires will return to RS:X action this week at the European Championships in Vilamoura, Portugal, from 22-28 November following an eight-month break in major competition for the class. The last major regatta for the British duo was back in February when they took on the RS:X World
The last Friday of October was chosen as the new start day for the RYA National Match Racing Championship Grand Final. An event typically dogged by light winds, that would not be an issue this year. Sixteen skippers were invited to attend having either won their place through a curtailed qualification series or through wildcard
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