#PathwayToParis: UoB students and alumni shine at the Olympics
What a summer of sport! Have you been watching the 2024 Olympics?
We’ve enjoyed cheering on our students and alumni who have brought home medals, challenged for finals positions, and represented the University of Birmingham in Paris.
You can catch up on all the action and updates from the Games over on the UoB Sport & Fitness blog, but here’s a recap of our Olympic success. We can’t wait for the Paralympic Games which will start on Wednesday 28 August, and to see more of our students and alumni in action.
Medals
- Anna Henderson, Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medallist and National Time Trial champion, won a silver medal in the women’s cycling road individual time trial.
- Hannah Kelly, a 4x400m relay athlete, brought home the bronze medal in the mixed 4x400m relay. A current staff member, Hannah is also an alumna of the university.
- Georgia Bell, middle-distance runner and alumna, took the bronze medal in a sensational 1500m final.
Finals
- Oliver Morgan, a current Sport, Physical Education and Coaching Sciences student, Elite Dual Career Athlete Pathway (EDCAP) scholar, and five-time British champion reached the men’s 100m backstroke final and the men’s 200m backstroke semi-finals in his Games debut.
Quarter-finals
- Alumni Amy Costello, Hannah French, Lily Owsley, Flora Peel, and Anna Toman, with current scholar Lily Walker on stand-by as part of the reserves, reached the women’s hockey knockout quarterfinals with Team GB.
- Former TASS scholar and alumna Heather Cowell was named in Team GB’s Women’s Rugby Sevens squad, who reached the quarterfinals.