Basingstoke and Deane Junior Sportswoman of the Year finalist Lily-Mae Lancaster Evans has become a European Champion after representing Great Britain in Greece.
The 13-year-old travelled to Marathon during October 6-9 for the European Biathle/Triathle and Laser Run Championships with Team GB.
The Sherfield School pupil competed in five competitions over four days after earlier qualifying at a series of events over the past few months including the British Laser Run Championships in Edinburgh, where she won gold to become the British Champion.
In Greece, Lily-Mae became the European Mixed Relay Laser Run champion alongside her teammate Reuban Cawley.
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She also won a gold team medal for the Mixed Relay Laser Run.
Following the event in Greece, Lily-May went on to become the British Modern Triathlon Champion after competing at the British Championships in Nottingham.
She competed in U15 girls, and did separate Laser Run and Swim to win the coveted title. She also received a team gold with her club Leweston.
Earlier in Greece, she won a silver medal in the U15 category of the individual European Laser Run competition after narrowly missing out on gold.
She also qualified for the Mixed Relay Triathle event and after crossing the line in first position, her partner eventually finished in fourth.
She then qualified for the European Triathle Championship, where she came fifth. Triathle is a continuous run, swim and shoot event.
She also competed in the European Biathle Championship and came seventh in a very close race. Biathle is a continuous run and swim event.
Lily-Mae said: “I’m so pleased to have won two gold medals and a silver medal at the European Championships. All the hard work paid off and it was amazing to compete in such a beautiful country with all of my friends.
“I love Modern Pentathlon as a muti-discipline sport is so varied and you keep learning so much. It’s very hard work but having so many lovely friends to train with and we all cheer each other on which makes it the best sport to be involved in.”
Lily-Mae is also the current British Tetrathlon Champion in U15 girls. Tetrathlon consists of a fencing/laser run and swimming.
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She also qualified and competed at the World Laser Run Championships in Lisbon, Portugal last month.
The talented athlete was also selected to compete in Laser Run at the prestigious Youth School Games in Loughborough University last month where she competed in U17 girls age category.
Lily-Mae has been competing in Modern Pentathlon since the age of eight and is on the prestigious Athlete Development Programme with Pentathlon GB.
She trains regularly with Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletic Club, Basingstoke Bluefins and Reading Fencing Club. She is a member of Leweston Pentathlon Academy, in Dorset.
When she was just nine years old, she won two silver medals and a bronze medal at the World Triathle Championships in Egypt.
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