Great Britain's Sam Weale produced a fine all-round performance to win the Bath International pentathlon.

Weale, who finished 10th at last year's Olympics, went into the final element of the pentathlon - the new combined run/shoot - in second place.

But he overhauled Ondrej Polivka on the second of three one-kilometre runs and came into the shooting range for the final time eight seconds ahead the Czech pentathlete.

Polivka, who won silver at last year's World Cup final, reduced the deficit to two seconds in the shooting range, but Weale produced a strong final 1km run to cross the line 20 seconds clear with a pentathlon score of 6044 points.

"I'm delighted to have won," said Weale afterwards. "It's the first time I've been on the podium since the Millfield World Cup a year ago. It's also a good start to the year for me.

"I had a good start in the fencing. That's particularly important now it's the first discipline. Then I had a solid swim and ride."

Weale's time of 11:29.95 for the combined event was the fastest in the field - he missed just one shot in his first of three groups of shooting and two in the final batch.

Team-mate and fellow Beijing Olympian Nick Woodbridge was challenging for a podium finish going into the run/shoot, but dropped down the field from fourth to eighth in the combined event with a time of 12:39.38.

Germany's Sascha Vetter came third and Robert Nemeth of Hungary - bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships - finished the day in 13th.