A KEIGHLEY teenager has guaranteed a starting place in all British Triathlon Super Series races this year after shining at an assessment weekend.

Jimmy Lund, 18, a Yorkshire Triathlon Academy athlete, attended the British Triathlon Performance assessment weekend in Loughborough.

All athletes based in England and Wales with aspirations to race on the British Triathlon Junior Super Series need to attend the weekend as the results set the Super Series order of entry.

The assessments include an 800-metre swim trial on the Saturday and then a combined 20-kilometre bike and 5k run the next day.

Ermysteds Grammar School sixth form student Lund swam the 800m swim in the pool at Loughborough University in a time of eight minutes and 52 seconds, finishing in second place out of the 87 best junior triathletes in England and Wales.

The swim times then formed the bike/run start list for the Sunday and after the 20k bike, which he completed in 29.31 and 5k run, which he completed in 17.16, he finished in 15th place out of the 85 athletes who started the race.

He was the first junior male Yorkshire Triathlon Academy athlete to finish the race and his position will guarantee him a start at all the British Triathlon Super Series races in 2018.

Lund will however miss both the triathlon in Llanelli next month and Leeds in June as he takes his A-level exams, and then hopes to start at Loughborough University in September 2018 to start a degree in Sport and Exercise Science and continue his training to hopefully become an elite triathlete.

His first race in the Super Series will be a triathlon at Dorney Lake in Berkshire in July and then two weeks later a triathlon in Hetton, Durham.