Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister of State for Disabled People, visited the University of Bath on Thursday to see the facilities used by both Tokyo 2020 Paralympians and community clubs as part of a campaign to encourage more sports clubs to offer opportunities to disabled people. Wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver – who was back at his
James Guy won his second gold medal of Tokyo 2020 and University of Bath graduate Anna Hopkin was also crowned as Olympic Champion as Team GB’s gold rush in the swimming pool continued in magnificent style this morning. Victory came in world-record time too as, after being given a strong start to the mixed 4x100m
University of Bath alumna Anna Hopkin is through to her debut individual Olympic final in dramatic style. She snatched fourth in her 100m freestyle semi today and made the final by just one hundredth of a second in a time of 53.11 seconds. “I wasn’t sure that the time was going to make it, so
Taking on one Olympic sport is challenging enough but a couple who have been training in Bath are about to try all 80 events during Tokyo 2020 to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA). Stuart Bates and Charlotte Nichols begin their Spennylympics challenge on Friday (23rd July) and over the following 16
75 days until Europe’s elite descend on Bath to battle for Continental Crowns and Tokyo Olympic places In a week which marks 75 days until the opening of August’s European Modern Pentathlon Championships and Tokyo Olympic qualifying event in Bath, GB’s modern pentathletes have already been in positive form this season. The national squad, which
There were two new championship records for swimmer Tom Dean and 25 medals, seven of them gold, as sporting University of Bath students impressed at the 2019 BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] Nationals in Sheffield. MJ Church Ambassador Dean, a 2018 European Champion who is in the first year of a Mechanical Engineering degree
Watch Britain’s Top Athletes battle for European Titles and Tokyo Olympic Places Tokyo will beckon when Britain’s top athletes compete for medals at the 2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships at the University of Bath from 6th-11th August. Styled “Gladiators Return” in recognition of the combative nature of an event in which athletes battle each other
Professor Bernie Morley, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath, will officially open the new Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre on Tuesday, February 26 during a free taster day open to all. Olympic Champion Amy Williams and Rugby World Cup winner Lewis Moody will also be special guests on the day and will
Two European Champions, a World Youth Champion and a title-winning GB Hockey star have joined the family of talented Team Bath athletes who will be sporting Ambassadors for MJ Church during 2018-19. Swimmer Tom Dean, netballer Sophie Drakeford-Lewis, windsurfer Sarah Jackson and hockey player Tim Nurse will help to bring Team Bath’s thriving partnership with
University of Bath student Chantelle Miell is in line for a place at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after being awarded a full-time contract in the England Rugby Women’s Sevens programme for the 2017-18 season. Graduates Amy Wilson Hardy and Natasha Hunt (pictured above), who both represented Team GB in sevens at the Rio
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