Heather Fell is ready to tackle her next sporting challenge after announcing she will join Clipper Round the World Yacht Race team Jamaica Get All Right in its home port to sail the remainder of the circumnavigation.
The former modern pentathlete, who won silver at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, retired from professional competition in January.
She will fly to Jamaica join the team to depart in Race 13 of 16 from Port Antonio to New York on May 24. On 7 June, the Clipper Race fleet departs New York to start its long awaited final, homecoming leg, racing via Northern Ireland and the Netherlands to arrive in London on July 12, where it originally started on September 1, 2013.
The 31-year-old said the Clipper Race would be a completely new adventure but is hoping to use as many of her skills gained through her pentathlon career to help her through it.
"My small amount of sailing experience is insignificant in the scale of this but I can't wait for the challenge," said Fell.
"The taster I experienced during the Clipper Race training has made me realise what I'm letting myself in for. I've got a mixture of extreme nerves combined with huge excitement."
Fell, who lives in Bath, first stepped on a Clipper Race boat as a child in the inaugural race in 1996, when she visited the fleet in Plymouth before it set off round the world.
The world's longest ocean race is uniquely for amateur sailors and known as one of the toughest endurance challenges on the planet.
