Fell produced the fifth fastest combined run/shoot to climb from 18th place and end the day in 10th overall.

Her performance helped the British team, which also included Katy Livingston and Mhairi Spence take bronze in the team competition behind winners Poland and second placed Hungary.

Spence came 13th overall in the individual contest with Louise Helyer 16th and Livingston 27th.

Lithuania’s Laura Asadauskaite produced a remarkable run/shoot to climb from 14th to first and take the individual gold, her second successive World Cup triumph.

 

Spence and Helyer both started the day strongly, winning 20 of their 35 fencing contests for joint eighth and 880 modern pentathlon points.

Livingston won 17 bouts for 808 points and 20th overall, while Fell’s 14 wins put her 25th after the first discipline with 736 points.

Helyer produced another good performance in the pool, clocking 2min 17.38sec for another 1,152 points to move up to sixth.

Spence remained eighth with a time of 2:19.84 for the 200m freestyle swim, adding 1124 points to her total.

Livingston was the fastest of the Britons.

 

Her 2:16.80 was the fifth fastest of the day, propelling her from 20th to 11th after the second discipline.

Fell dug deep to produce a powerful finish over the last 25m for a time of 2:19.47 for 1,128 points to climb from 25th to 21st.

All four Britons rode well. Helyer was one of six athletes to go clear in the allocated time in the equestrian arena, giving her the maximum 1,200 points from that discipline.

 

 

That pushed her up another place to fifth going into the run/shoot – the new climax to the modern pentathlon.

Team-mate Spence also rode well, dropping just 20 points to add 1,180 to her total, pushing her up from eighth to sixth. Livingston matched Spence’s score to climb to 10th, while Fell matched Helyer’s perfect 1,200 to climb to 18th.

So going in to the run/shoot, Amelie Caze, France’s reigning world champion, led the field – as she had done all day - with 3,380 points, with three Britons in the top-10 – Helyer fifth on 3,232, Spence sixth on 3,184 and Livingston 10th on 3,148 with Fell 18th with 3,064.

Fell’s run/shoot of 12:49.95 was fifth fastest, earning her a further 2,284 points for 10th overall. Spence recorded 13:34.95 with Helyer 14:02.93 and Livingston 14:37.41.