Whitchurch's Joe Evans in 16th spot on return from injury
Whitchurch's Joe Evans finished 16th in the Modern Pentathlon World Junior Championships in Poland.
The 20-year-old, back in action for the first time after a season hampered by injury, had made a strong start to yesterday's men's final in Drzonkow.
He was sitting inside the top 10 after two events, and had been as high as second after the swim, before then slipping down the leaderboard in the riding and run/shoot.
Evans' Great Britain team-mate Sam Curry came home in 21st place.
Evans emerged from the fencing in sixth with 226 points after scoring 21 victories from his 35 bouts.
Russia's Egor Puchkarevskiy took an early lead, winning 25 contests worth 250 points.
But Evans closed the gap with the fastest swim of the day. His 200m freestyle time of 1:58.34 earned 345 points, moving him up to second behind Puchkarevskiy.
Evans took 254 of the maximum 300 points from the riding discipline. That took his total to 825, which saw him drop to seventh going into the run/shoot.
Evans started the run/shoot 52 seconds behind Puchkarevskiy, but his run/shoot time of 12:25.38 saw him drop to 16th.
Puchkarevskiy hung on to take the title.
