ADAM Sandercock, aged 11, of Lamerton Pony Club, won the Youth D section at the National Modern Pentathlon Championships at Millfield.

He produced a series of excellent performances in fencing, swimming and riding on the first day, with a good shoot on the morning of the second day to go into the final running phase 23 seconds ahead of his rival.

Running has not always been Adam?s favourite discipline, but he knew he had to stay with the field to take the championship and he rose to the challenge.

This success follows a series of excellent results for Adam in tetrathlons across the South West this season.

Adam has been a member of Lamerton Hunt Pony Club?s very successful tetrathlon squad for three years now and so far this season he has won his class at Spooners triathlon, won at North Cornwall, was second at South Devon Moorland and was in the South West team at the Inter Area tetrathlon at Stockland Lovell.

Not surprisingly, as a multi discipline athlete, he has also done well in other spheres: he has been picked for the North Kernow swimming squad and has recently had a trial for Cornwall U14 hockey team.

Lamerton?s tetrathletes have done particularly well in transferring to modern pentathlon. At the recent national championships at Stoke Mandeville for older competitors, the best riders in both junior men and junior women were by Lamerton members Toby Ryan and Louise Body, a remarkable result for such a small club.

However, Lamerton have always had a reputation of producing good riders.

Now the older members are training hard for the area competition at Aldon next week, hoping to qualify for the National Pony Club Championships, while Adam has a break before his junior area competition in September, where he hopes to do well.