WYE canoeist Sofia Alfer stormed to team silver for GB in the U18 World Canoe Slalom Championships in Foix, France.

This was the Wyedean Canoe Club teenager’s second world championships, but this year competing over six days she made the podium in the team event and placed sixth overall in the individual kayak.

Hartpury student Sofia, who trains regularly at Symonds Yat Rapids, is also competing at the European Championship in Solkan, Slovenia, this week.

Wyedean Canoe Club slalom coach Mike Mitchell said: “This is an amazing achievement for Sofia and the Wyedean Slalom Squad.

“We have got such a strong squad of young paddlers training most days at the Yat or at white water courses across the country, and this achievement was just a week after five of the younger paddlers competed in the European Canoe Association Championships in Augsburg, Germany, where we took a gold medal in the U16s and two golds and a silver in the U14 events.”

Club mate Jake Mitchell has also won a call up to the Junior Olympics in North Macedonia to represent Team GB.

To see Sofia in action at the world junior championships, go to the Planet Canoe YouTube page