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Team Bath is the University of Bath's sporting organisation. In addition to entering teams in BUCS intervarsity competitions, Team Bath has also entered teams in national leagues and competitions. Team Bath F.C. reached the first round proper of the 2002–03 FA Cup. They become the first university team to reach this stage since Oxford University A.F.C. in 1880. In 2005–06 the netball team were both founder members and the inaugural champions of the Netball Superleague. They were Superleague champions again in 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2013. The field hockey club enter a team in the Men's England Hockey League.
Team Bath's main sports complex is the Sports Training Village based at the University of Bath campus at Claverton Down. The university has hosted several sporting events, including the 1995 European Youth Summer Olympic Days, the 2019 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone competition and the 2023 UIPM Laser-Run and Pentathlon World Championships. The facilities at the University of Bath have also been used as a training base by many individual Olympians and Paralympians.
History
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Hall of Fame
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Medallists
The following athletes have either been students at the University of Bath or have been based at the University's training facilities.
= Summer Olympics
=Artistic swimming
Athletics
Judo
Modern Pentathlon
The University of Bath has hosted the Pentathlon GB National Training Centre since 1998.
Rowing
The University of Bath has hosted a British Rowing Performance Development Academy (previously known as Start) since 2003.
Swimming
The University of Bath has hosted the Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre since 2008.
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= Summer Paralympics
=Athletics
Sailing
Swimming
Wheelchair fencing
The University of Bath hosts the Wheelchair Fencing National Training Centre, which officially opened in December 2022.
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= Winter Olympics
=Skeleton
The University of Bath hosts the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association national training centre and has the UK's only outdoor push-start track.
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= Winter Paralympics
=Alpine skiing
Facilities
= Sports Training Village
=Team Bath's main sports complex is the Sports Training Village based at University of Bath campus at Claverton Down. Facilities include:
Olympic-sized London 2012 legacy pool.
Fitness gyms
Outdoor floodlit 400m athletics track.
Indoor sprint track.
Three large sprung-wood sports halls.
Indoor and outdoor tennis courts.
Judo dojo.
Fencing pistes.
Outdoor and indoor shooting ranges.
Bobsleigh/skeleton push-start track
Rugby and football pitches
Outdoor field hockey pitches
Physio treatment areas and sport science labs
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Directors of Sport
References
External links
University of Bath
Team Bath on Facebook
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Team Bath on Instagram