LONDON 2012 UNIVERSITY OF BATH
OLYMPIC TEAMS • British Paralympic Association • China (swimming) • Malaysia • Lithuania (modern pentathlon) • Denmark (Paralympic swimming) (others to be confirmed)
The University of Bath’s £30m Sports Training Village was completed in 2004. Offering a diverse selection of fully- inclusive sports facilities, the village includes a 50m swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, athletics tracks, synthetic turf pitches and a judo dojo. A number of sports have their national
high performance bases at Bath. These include modern pentathlon, bob skeleton, badminton, beach volleyball and netball. The university also houses one of British Swimming’s five intensive training centres. Sports science back- up areas, which include ice-baths and saunas and video analysis capabilities are also on site. Olympic athletes that train at the
university include Amy Williams – 2010 Olympic Games bob skeleton gold medalist and Dai Greene – 2011 World 400m hurdles champion.
The village includes an Olympic- standard, 50m swimming pool
FACILITIES Many of the university’s sports facilities have been designed so they can be adapted for use by a variety of different sports. The main hall, complete with a sprung wooden floor, can accommodate up to three basketball courts or be adapted for Paralympic use to host boccia, wheelchair basketball, goalball, sitting volleyball and wheelchair rugby. The university’s indoor acrylic tennis
courts can also be adapted for alternative sporting use. These complement eight acrylic and two clay outdoor courts within the sports complex.
An indoor modern pentathlon training
area, which is home to the GB team, features 16m x 10m electronic shooting lanes and eight aluminium fencing pistes, while the indoor throws and jumps hall and six-lane 140m running straight can also be used for archery training. The fully-equipped fitness suite has
more than 120 cardiovascular stations, seven lifting platforms, free and fixed weights and stretching/warm-up zones. Outside, there are two upgraded sand-
dressed, floodlit hockey pitches, which can accommodate football sessions and complement eight natural turf sports pitches. A 400m, floodlit athletics track includes full throws and jumps facilities. Sports science and medicine facilities
are a key component of the village and include a human performance centre and sports injury clinic. Disciplines include: physiology testing; strength and conditioning; prehab and rehab; Hypoxic training; physiotherapy; recovery sports massage therapy, hydrotherapy and ice bath therapy; video performance analysis; nutrition and hydration; sports psychology and eye-tracking – to enhance perception and decision-making.
VISITING TEAMS China’s top 25 swimmers will train along- side British Olympians at the university in readiness for Games-time competition. The university already has strong links with the country, in terms of academic research and collaboration, and is looking to extend the partnership into the areas of sports performance and sport science. More than 1,000 Chinese students currently study at the university. Malaysia has also been using the site as
a regular training base since early 2010, in the lead up to large European-based tournaments, as well as in preparation for the Olympic Games. Training facilities can be adapted for
use by the ParalympicsGB camp, which will feature 10 sports and more than 200 team members in the run up to the Paralympic Games.
The visiting nations will inspire students and the community during their visit
Community Links: The university will be running a comprehensive programme that links the international visits to the local community to inspire the one million visitors/users of the facility throughout this training period. The torch relay route will also run through the facility.
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