Britain's Sam Weale and Jamie Cooke had mixed fortunes at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships.
Best display from Weale, but poor ride puts Cooke well down the field
Britain's Sam Weale enjoyed his best ever finish at a Modern Pentathlon World Championships, while team-mate Jamie Cooke endured a poor performance in Moscow.
Weale produced his best performance as he managed to come 12th in Moscow on Sunday.
The 29-year-old has suffered a difficult season not helped by injury and technical problems, but put on an accomplished display to miss out on a place in the top 10 by just five seconds.
There was disappointment for Weale's team-mate Cooke, who endured a poor ride on his way to 35th place on his first final at a World Championships.
Pentathlon GB performance director Jan Bartu said: "Sam was very consistent throughout the day. He was battling his way through in the combined event. He had a good last shoot that put him close to 10th and ran as fast as he could.
Cooke
"Realistically Jamie didn't have a chance after the ride. He used the run/shoot as a practice event and he raced well.
"He has never competed in the final of a World Championships before, so it was a good experience."
Weale won 17 of his 35 fencing bouts to put him in 19th place after the first discipline, while Cooke's 13 wins saw him 30th.
Cooke produced a great performance in the pool to climb to 16th. His one minute 55.47secs for the 200m freestyle was comfortably the fastest swim of the day, while Weale's 2:04.06 was the 14th fastest.
Weale dropped just 60 points from the maximum 1200 in the riding arena, moving him up to 14th place going into the run/shoot. But there was disappointment for Cooke, who had a poor round in the ride and could only add 692 points to his total.
Double Olympic champion Andrei Moiseev led most of the way to take gold, ahead of compatriot Aleksander Lesun and Hungary's Adam Marosi.
The championships continue on Monday with the mixed relay, where Nick Woodbridge and Heather Fell represent Great Britain.
