World triathlon champion Flora Duffy went back to school yesterday morning, visiting Warwick Academy, which she attended as a teenager, before eventually becoming a professional athlete.

And she was greeted with a warm welcome by both students and teachers.

After giving an insight into her triathlon season, she handed out the IGCSE certificate to students and then held a question-and-answer period with the school’s top sport students.

Flora competed in a new three-day event last weekend in the Bahamas, in which she finished second to Olympic champion Gwen Jorgenson. But the highlight of her career came in September where she was crowned 2016 World Triathlon Series champion, winning the final event in Mexico. Last month she claimed the Xterra World Championships in Maui, Hawaii, where she was the two-time defending champion.

And she can complete a hat-trick of world titles when she travels to Snowy Mountains in Australia for the ITU Cross Triathlon World Championships where she is also again the defending champion.