UIPM 2025 Pentathlon World Cup Budapest: All you need to know
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22-26 April 2025
BOK Sports Hall (Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem)
LIVE on UIPM TV
The European phase of the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon World Cup season began today in one of the sport’s heartlands – the dazzling Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Over the next five days, established pentathlon stars such as Olympic champion Michelle Gulyas of Hungary will race a new generation of contenders led by 14-year-old Farida Khalil of Egypt in a bid to secure places at the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon World Cup Final in July.
Following gold-medal success at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and multiple medals last season, the host nation of this competition and the North African powerhouse seem to be embedded as the dominant teams in the sport.
However, as the business end of the season approaches, competition is sure to intensify with nations such as France, Great Britain, Italy and Korea stepping up their LA28 programmes and numerous Individual Neutral Athletes continuing to compete fiercely. There are also signs of a renewed Asian challenge with 16 athletes coming to this competition from China and seven from Japan.
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Watch and follow
UIPM 2025 Pentathlon World Cup Budapest takes place from April 22-26, with livestream of the Semi-finals and Finals available to watch free on UIPM.TV based on the following schedule (TV times listed in Central European Summer Time):
- Tuesday April 22: Women’s Qualification
- Wednesday April 23: Men’s Qualification | Women’s Fencing Seeding Round
- Thursday April 24: Women’s Semi-final A (LIVE from 09:30); Women’s Semi-final B (LIVE from 13:00) | Men’s Fencing Seeding Round
- Friday April 25: Men’s Semi-final A (LIVE from 13:00); Men’s Semi-final B (LIVE from 16:30)
- Saturday April 26: Women’s Final (LIVE from 13:00), Men’s Final (LIVE from 16:30).
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How it works
Get set for five days of individual competition in the sequence of Fencing, Obstacle, Swimming and Laser Run – a new format that was introduced at UIPM 2025 Pentathlon World Cup Cairo.
Fencing now features a quickfire direct elimination format where athletes must win 1min bouts to remain in the competition. In Qualification there is a traditional Ranking Round, and prior to the Semi-finals there is a Seeding Round that dictates where athletes are placed in the knockout draw.
Fencing is followed by Obstacle, a new addition to senior Modern Pentathlon where athletes race head to head over a 70m course featuring eight obstacles.
Action then switches to the Swimming pool for a 200m freestyle before athletes line up for Laser Run – five running laps of 600m with four visits to the shooting range. The first athlete across the finish line wins!
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