A champion skydiver from Didcot, who is part of a record-breaking four-strong world-class skydiving team, will represent Britain in the World Championships.

Amanda Kemp, from Park Road, started skydiving 11 years ago and qualified for the competition after taking second place with her three Team Elan colleagues at the British National Championships last month.

The 32-year-old physiotherapist, who was a stunt double for Angelina Jolie in the Lara Croft film Tomb Raider 2: Cradle of Life, said: "It's fantastic, we're thrilled with the result - we'll be up against all the professional teams and I'm really looking forward to it.

"We've had one new member of the team this year, so it has been good fun.

"It's brilliant working really hard together and doing the formations with amazing people.

"Nothing on the ground compares to it. It's so addictive and we get a real adrenaline rush."

The Team Elan quartet will take part in the skydiving equivalent of the Olympics, held in Maubeuge in France next August.

They will jump from a plane at 10,500ft, and race through a sequence of formations in freefall against the clock.

The rigorous training schedule, which will begin over the next few weeks, includes intensive two-week skydiving camps at Seville, in Spain, where the group perform up to 20 jumps a day as well as making regular visits to a vertical wind tunnel in Bedford to rehearse routines closer to the ground.

Last year, when Claire Scott, from Bicester, was a member of what was then called Team Airkix, they won gold medals at the international competition, with the highest-ever scores for a female team.

In 2005 they set a new female world record for creating the most formations in 35 seconds.