With just over two weeks to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has today confirmed the bobsleigh and skeleton athletes who will represent Team GB in Italy. In skeleton, reigning World Champion Matt Weston has been selected for his second Olympic Games alongside
British Skeleton will head into Olympic year with confidence high after winning six medals on the final IBSF World Cup race weekend of 2025, including back-to-back one-two finishes in the men’s races. A double-header weekend of racing in Sigulda, Latvia saw University of Bath-based Matt Weston dominate the first men’s race on Friday to finish
British Skeleton athletes are heading into the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games season with ambitions and confidence high after a productive summer of training at the University of Bath. The squad start their 2025-26 IBSF World Cup campaign on Friday 21st November at the redeveloped Eugenio Monti Olympic Sliding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo, which will
Skeleton athletes Brogan Crowley, Laura Deas, Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have today become the first University of Bath-based sportspeople to be officially selected by Team GB for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. It is a second Games for Deas, who won bronze behind champion and compatriot Lizzy Yarnold at PyeongChang 2018, while Crowley,
PyeongChang medallist Laura Deas and aspiring Olympic debutant Brogan Crowley are going into the new IBSF Skeleton World Cup season with different levels of experience but the same goal – qualifying for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. Deas, who won bronze in South Korea four years ago, is the only member of the University of
After a busy and productive summer of training at Team Bath, Israeli skeleton athlete Georgie Cohen is going into the Beijing 2022 season chasing both history for her country and fulfilment for her family’s Olympic legacy. Cohen, who had full-time athlete access to the UK’s only outdoor push-track and other high-performance facilities at the Sports
The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games may have just finished but Team Bath and partners MJ Church are already looking to the future by supporting a potential skeleton star of Beijing 2022. Ashleigh Pittaway, a Youth Olympic Games gold-medallist in 2016, is only 17 years old but has already raced on the IBSF World Cup
Four skeleton athletes who train at the University of Bath, including defending champion Lizzy Yarnold and student Dom Parsons, have today been selected by Team GB for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Laura Deas and Jerry Rice will make their Olympic debuts at the Games, which are being staged in South Korea from February
University of Bath PhD student Dom Parsons is one of four sliders selected by Great Britain Skeleton for next week’s ISBF World Championships in Igls, Austria. Sochi 2014 Olympian Parsons, who is studying Mechanical Engineering and supported by the University’s Dual Career programme, is joined in an experienced squad by David Swift, Laura Deas (pictured
Skeleton World Champion Lizzy Yarnold and Piers Gilliver, the world’s number one wheelchair fencer, were among the University of Bath-based athletes honoured at the 2015 Bath Chronicle Sports Award. The winners collected their prizes during a ceremony hosted by television broadcaster John Inverdale at Bath Racecourse, with Team Bath Netball U16s receiving the Junior Team
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