KENT pentathlete Georgina Harland has clinched her first major title and provisionally booked a place in the Great Britain team for next year’s Olympics.

The 25-year-old, from Waltham near Canterbury, bounced back from a disappointing performance at the World Championships earlier in the year to win the European Championships in the Czech Republic at the weekend.

All the leading women pentathletes come from Europe and Harland swept them aside, including Hungarian world champion Szuzsa Voros.

Harland, currently based at the Great Britain team headquarters at Bath University, will now get to fulfil her dream of competing at the Olympics for the Great British team in Athens next summer providing she keeps up her level of performance.

She said: “It was the my first championship win. It has been coming for a long time and it is great to get it."