WILTSHIRE-based business team Team Proto-col returned from last month’s Biathle World Championships in Georgia laden with medals.

Biathle is an offshoot of modern pentathlon and Holt’s James Greenwell, who is the managing director of Bradford on Avon-based health and beauty product-manufacturers Proto-col, donned a Great Britain vest to complete two 1,000m runs, sandwiching a 100m swim, in the Masters A category in the city of Batumi.

Former British Masters A Pentathlon champion Greenwell, 43, a silver medallist at the 2014 worlds, followed that up with an individual bronze medal.

Meanwhile, fellow Team Proto-col athletes John Tighe – a 43-year-old, who has earned top-ten finishes at the last two European Championships – and Kypros Harrison, 46, from Hilperton, also came home with medals.

Against one of the strongest fields in the world championships’ 17-year history, Greenwell, Tighe and Harrison returned home with silver medals after Great Britain finished second in the team standings.

Greenwell will go looking to retain his World Series crown at the final biathle race on the calendar in Kusadasi, Turkey, on October 28 – November 1.

ST AUGUSTINE’S students Will Andrews and James Gordon were among the medals at the Prior Park Biathlon Time Trial at the University of Bath Sports Training Village.

Year Seven student Andrews competed in the U12 boys (50m swim and 800m run) event and won silver, while Year Eight pupil Gordon, competing in the U13 boys (100m swim and 1,600m run) class, won gold.