Shropshire's Joe Evans through to chase world pentathlon medal
Whitchurch's Joe Evans has qualified for the men's final of the Modern Pentathlon World Junior Championships in Poland.
Evans, 20, will fly the flag for Great Britain tomorrow after qualifying from the semi-finals in Drzonków yesterday.
He will be joined by GB team mate Sam Curry, who also made the grade but Joe Choong and Tom Lees both missed out.
With three qualifying groups, athletes had to secure a top-eight finish in each to be sure of progressing to tomorrow's final or rely on being one of the next 12 highest points scorers across the three groups.
Choong finished 12th in qualification group A with a score of 1080 points. His performances included the fastest 200m freestyle swim time of the competition, with 1:58.80. B
Sam Curry came 11th in qualification group B with 1096 points, after coming joint third in the fencing and sixth in the swim. All then rested on performances in qualification group C, where Evans went into the run/shoot in 11th place and Lees in 23rd.
Evans also broke the two-minute mark in the pool, with a time of 1:59.71. He held on to 11th at the end of the run/shoot and his points total of 1110 was enough to see him progress, but Lees and Choong missed out.
