There were six golds amongst a 14-medal haul for University of Bath-based swimmers at the 2018 British Swimming Championships, which were incorporated into the Edinburgh International Meet. Despite being in heavy training for next month’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, British Swimming National Centre Bath swimmer James Guy was able to add two more national
Welsh swimmers Jazz Carlin and Calum Jarvis are the latest University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. They are among 93 athletes across 11 sports added to the Team Wales squad for the Games, taking place in Australia from April 4-15. University of Bath graduate Jacob Paul,
Team Bath Synchro Club are offering anyone aged six and over the chance to give synchronised swimming a try in 2018. Children and adults, male and female, are invited to attend a free taster session taking place in the University of Bath Sports Training Village’s London 2012 Legacy Pool on Sunday (January 21). Those taking
Student Anna Hopkin claimed two national titles as University of Bath-based swimmers won 11 medals at the Swim England National Winter Championships in Sheffield. MJ Church ambassador Hopkin, who is also supported by a Thompson Education Trust sporting scholarship, was the first English swimmer home in both the 50m and 100m freestyle, clocking rapid times
Athlete Katrina Hart and student-swimmer Miles Munro are the latest University of Bath-based sportspeople who will be heading to Australia in the new year to compete in the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Both have previous Commonwealth experience, with former World Champion and Paralympics medallist Hart – coached by Rob Ellchuk at the Sports Training
Promising Team Bath Synchro Club youngsters Megan Pyke and Sophie Sandberg both impressed when they made their first appearances at the annual Swim England Synchronised Swimming National Age Group Championships in Gloucester. Competing in the 12-and-under category, they had to perform four technical figures in front of different judging panels – ballet leg single, barracuda,
A quintet of swimmers have become the first Loughborough athletes to confirm their places at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, as Team England unveiled their first wave of swimming selections. Headlining the announcement is Olympic and World champion Adam Peaty, the world record holder named as one of 15 swimmers who will travel to the Gold
Stephanie Millward set the qualifying time for this year’s World Para-Swimming Championships during an excellent opening day for University of Bath-based swimmers at the 2017 British Swimming Summer Championships in Sheffield. The double Rio 2016 Paralympic champion, who trains in the London 2012 Legacy Pool, won her mixed-classification 400m freestyle final with a total of
Team Bath AS swimmer Laura McNab has been selected to represent Great Britain at the LEN European Junior Championships in Netanya, Israel, from June 28 to July 2. The Royal High School pupil earned her place in the 37-strong squad after producing stunning performances in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle junior finals at the
The President of the Afghanistan Swimming Federation has teamed up with New York city based start-up Dreamfuel* to launch a campaign to create the first ever National Women’s Swimming Team for Afghanistan. The achievement of this aim will be a massive boost to women and girls across this beleaguered country. The Afghanistan National Swimming Federation (ANSF) was
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