CHIPPENHAM ASC member Joshua Dreelan competes in the World Biathle Championships in Guatemala, tomorrow.

Dreelan, who lives in Corsham and is a pupil at King Edward’s School in Bath, competed as a newcomer in the global championships last year at the tender age of ten, finishing eighth in his age group in Cyprus.

This year, the 11-year-old has moved up to the U13 age group for the run-swim-run event, that falls under the modern pentathlon umbrella.

Dreelan, a member of the performance squad at Chippenham club, was in the club’s county squad and also represents Dorset Pentathletes and acquitted himself well in the GB Biathle 6 Race Series.

However, ahead of the National in August, he still only stood an outside chance of the top five place that would win him world selection.

After working on the running discipline, he was 13th in the first transition at the nationals in Salford, before a superb swim took him up to fifth, a position he maintained through the second run to book his world place.

Dreelan will be part of a 30-strong British team in central America.

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