Modern pentathlon world champion Samantha Murray has been named on the shortlist for the September Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Month award.
Her nomination follows Murray's success in winning the individual gold medal at the world championships in Warsaw last month, when she also helped the British women's team to team silver.
She became only the fourth British woman to win the individual modern pentathlon world crown in a sport that sees athletes tackle fencing, swimming, show jumping and then a run/shoot, all in one day.
Murray features on a shortlist of six athletes along with cyclist Manon Carpenter, golfer Trish Johnson, footballer Kim Little, hurdler Tiffany Porter and wheelchair tennis player Jordanne Whiley.
She said: "It's an honour to be nominated for the Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Month award. My victory at the world championships was a huge milestone for me as an athlete. I wanted to put our sport in the spotlight after so many athletes did us proud at the Commonwealth Games this summer.
"It was a great achievement and it has given me lots of confidence in my training as I gear up and prepare for Olympic qualification for Rio."
The winner is determined by a public vote via the Sky Sports Sportswomen website and you can vote for Murray at http://www1.skysports.com/watch/tv-shows/sportswomen
The poll closes at midnight on Sunday and the winner will be announced on the Sky Sports Sportswomen Show on Tuesday, October 7.
Murray became only Britain's fourth individual woman modern pentathlon world champion following in the footsteps of Wendy Norman (1982), Steph Cook (2001) and Mhairi Spence (2012).
Her individual gold at the world championships in Warsaw followed a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games and an individual bronze at the 2012 world championships in Rome.
Murray is originally from Clitheroe in Lancashire and now lives and trains in Bath. She is based at Pentathlon GB's National Training Centre at the University of Bath and she graduated from the University with a French and Politics degree last year.
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