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Egypt holding coaches workshop at World Cup #2

Modern Pentathlon

With the help of the Olympic solidarity development program in Africa and with the participation of more than 50 promising coaches from the 6 African nations of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast , Kenya, Mauritius, Senegal and Egypt, the EMPF is currently holding a coaches workshop in Cairo.

The course was officially opened at the Egyptian Olympic academy on Sunday 16th March in the presence of Sharif El-Erian, President of the Egyptian Modern Pentathlon Federation; Sameh Guemieh President of the Africa Modern Pentathlon Confederation; and Awad Sami, Chairman of the coaches committee of UIPM, and it is designed to educate coaches to rules and coaching techniques from the elite level.

The course will continue up until the 6th April and UIPM has appointed Awad Sami and France’s Christian Roudaut as official experts to prepare the final examinations for all participants. This great initiative will both benefit the continent where new ideas can be developed and exchanged and will guarantee the long-term prosperity of the sport in Africa.

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