JAMIE COOKE was unable to repeat his heroics from the opening World Cup event of 2015 when the best Modern Pentathletes in the world moved on to Cairo at the weekend.
University of Bath student Cooke, originally from Andoversford, and his GB team-mate Joe Evans were both struck down by a severe stomach virus.
Cooke, who won a World Cup gold medal recently in Florida, had again fenced reasonably well but he struggled on the swim – his strongest event – posting an unusually slow time of 2:07.51.
Cooke laboured hard to the end but also dropped places during the combined run-shoot from 21st to 30th place.
Evans looked on track to lay down his best World Cup performance since early 2013 when he started the final event – the combined run-shoot – in sixth place after the second fastest swim of the day and a flawless ride.
But from that point he didn't have anything left and dropped back to 16th overall.
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