Training partners and fellow Olympians Jazz Carlin and Chris Walker-Hebborn will make their first competitive appearance since Rio when they contest the 2016 ASA National Winter Meet, taking place at Ponds Forge, Sheffield from December 15-18. Both returned to their University of Bath training base from the Olympics with silver medals – Carlin in both
Two new championship records, one national record and ten medals in total, three of which were gold, added up to a successful weekend for University of Bath students at the 2016 BUCS Short Course Championships in Sheffield. Sports & Exercise Science student Anna Hopkin excelled in the freestyle events, winning a brace of golds as
The thriving partnership between the University of Bath and British Swimming was celebrated at the Sports Training Village on Friday as athletes, coaches and staff gathered to reflect on another outstanding year of success in the pool. Rio 2016 Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn were among members of the British Swimming
Three golds in a night of shock and awe for ParalympicsGB swimming World records, gold medals, shock and awe – Sascha Kindred, Ellie Simmonds and Susie Rodgers wrote their name in British sporting history at the Paralympic Games. In the space of just 38 minutes, Kindred and Rodgers gave hope to all those who believe life can
University of Bath-based swimmer Jazz Carlin became Team GB’s first double medallist of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games when she won 800m freestyle silver in the early hours of Saturday morning. The 25-year-old, full of confidence after claiming 400m freestyle silver on Monday, enjoyed a race-long battle with Hungary’s reigning European champion Boglarka Kapas before
University of Bath-based swimmer Jazz Carlin will bid for her second medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in the early hours of Saturday morning after qualifying third-fastest for the 800m freestyle final. Full of confidence after her superb silver medal in the 400m freestyle, Carlin clocked 8:19.67 in the fastest heat of the day
Siobhan-Marie O’Connor said winning an Olympic silver medal was “the best feeling in the world” after she became the second University of Bath-based swimmer to stand on the podium in Rio this week. And there could be another medal for the British Swimming National Centre Bath training group in the early hours of Thursday morning
Jazz Carlin made it a night to remember for Team GB in the pool at Rio 2016 after taking 400m freestyle silver just moments after watching Adam Peaty win 100m breaststroke gold. Carlin, 25, came home in 04:01.2 to claim silver behind the USA’s Kathleen Ledecky who won gold with a new world record of
Adam Peaty’s coach, Mel Marshall, is proving that female coaches can operate at the highest level of elite sport, as she aims to guide Peaty to Olympic glory. Having worked with the precocious swimming talent since he was 14 years of age, Marshall has guided the young Loughborough based athlete to three world records and
Jazz Carlin won two gold medals and Chris Walker-Hebborn secured a brace of silvers as University of Bath-based swimmers continued their Rio 2016 Olympic Games preparations at the Mare Nostrum competition in Barcelona. Carlin went eight seconds faster than anyone else in the field as she won 800m freestyle gold in 8:25.23 on Saturday. She
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