BRITAIN's women took silver in the team competition at the modern pentathlon world championships in China on Saturday.
Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medallist Heather Fell from Tavistock was the highest placed British finisher in the individual competition in eighth with 5072 points. Team-mate Freyja Prentice, aged 20, produced the third fastest run/shoot of the day, climbing from 16th going into the run/shoot to end the day in a creditable ninth.
Samantha Murray, 20, competing at her first senior World Championships. finished 22nd.
Britain went into the run/shoot in Chengdu in second place in the team competition 292 points behind France and only four seconds ahead of Hungary, but produced solid performances to secure team silver.
France's Amelie Caze won her third individual World Championship crown and helped her country to team gold.
Heather Fell led the British challenge from the start and was eighth after the fencing with 19 wins and 15 defeats.
Heather dropped 74 points from the perfect 1200 in a riding arena in which none of the 35 athletes went clear in the allotted time. Fell still remained seventh overall going into the run/shoot.
Fell climbed to fourth place after the first shooting element of the run/shoot, but had a disappointing second shoot and ended the day in eighth. Prentice's time of 12 mins 20.61secs saw her climb fro 16th place to cross the line just behind Fell in ninth, while Murray dropped three places to finish 22nd.