Army athlete wins Women's Pentathlon World Cup, eyeing Olympic glory in Paris

Second Lieutenant Kerenza Bryson has won the Women's Final at the Pentathlon World Cup in Ankara.

The army athlete started the final with an impressive 20-point advantage over her rivals following a superb return of 27 victories in the fencing event during the semi-final.

Victory in Turkey comes just weeks after she claimed a bronze in the opening World Cup event in Cairo.

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Earlier this week, the junior Army officer and qualified doctor was crowned UK Armed Forces Sportswoman of the Year.

The victory puts her in good stead as she battles for a place on the Pentathlon Team GB for the Olympics in Paris this summer. 

Bath-based 2Lt Bryson is a Maritime Troop Commander Reserve Officer in 165 Port and Maritime RLC Regiment.

She started her military career while studying medicine at university, enrolling in the University Officer Training Corps at Plymouth.

"I thought I'd give it a go and enjoyed the idea of long-term being a doctor in the army and travelling with a regiment," Kerenza wrote on her website.

"From there I decided to go to Sandhurst and become a reserve officer."

When she is not swimming, fencing, horse riding, shooting and running, 2Lt Bryson is specialising in acute medicine.