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UIPM's first Executive Board meeting of 2013, has recently taken place at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique's Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland on 29-30 January 2013.
The meeting was chaired by UIPM's President Dr h.c. Klaus Schormann, which UIPM Vice President and IOC Executive Board Member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr also participated, to discuss with all members the following main points:
Two-days of stunning modern pentathlon at the Al Shaqab Centre in Doha ensured this edition of Champion of Champions hosted by Qatar Foundation in cooperation with Qatar Olympic Committee will live long in the memory. Saturday saw the women compete with Margaux Isaksen of USA defending her title with panache whilst France’s Christopher Patte claimed his maiden career victory by winning the men’s event on Sunday.
After a season in which she has failed to reproduce the form that saw her take the Olympic gold last year, Laura Asadauskaite delivered when she needed it to most, coming all the way up from 19th on the combined starting grid to become World Champion with some sensational shooting and impressively fast running in the final event of the day.
It was jubilation for France today at the World Championships in Taiwan as Elodie Clouvel and Valentin Belaud teamed up to win the Mixed Relay gold. A riveting day of competition had seen the pair first score 904 points in the fence before a 1:56.99 time in the pool saw them move up to third overall. Their perfect score in the ride ensured they had the perfect platform for a tilt at glory.
With heavy downpours waterlogging the Riding course and making it impossible for the horses to come out for the penultimate event of the Women’s World Championships Final, the competition has now been suspended until tomorrow. Great Britain’s Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray is top after two events.
France’s Elodie Clouvel with start this afternoon’s Women’s World Championships Final combined event with an 8 second head start after the 24-year-old made only mistake around the Riding course in the penultimate event of the day to go top of the leaderboard.
She has struggled for form this year with the run/shoot event often proving her downfall but this is a fantastic opportunity for her to push on and fulfil that huge potential of hers.
It came as no surprise to see Russia’s Aleksander Lesun claim the best result in the Men’s World Championships Final fence this morning with the reigning champion taking 976 points from 24 victories on the pistes.
Dmyrto Kirpulyanskyy of Ukraine equalled the Russian’s score and shares top sport with the World No.3 whilst France’s Valentin Belaud and Lithuania’s Justinas Kinderis are tied in third position.
After a score of in the penultimate event of the day on the horse, Russian defending champion Aleksander Lesun move top of the leaderboard with just the run/shoot to go in the Men’s World Championships Final.
He will have a four second head-start at the starting grid with Lithuania’s Justinas Kinderis leading the chasing pack.
Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy of Ukraine and Nick Woodbridge of Great Britain are 9 seconds behind Lesun.
It was a day to remember for the Baltic nation of Lithuania as Justinas Kinderis took the Men’s World Championships gold after a confident combined event. The World No.4 had earlier scored a perfect ride after having placed third in the fence and 16th in the pool.
After starting the run/shoot event from second on the grid, four seconds behind Aleksander Lesun, the 26-year-old was precise with the pistol and his strong running gave him the perfect platform with which to bring home the title of World Champion.
Veterans Elena Rublevska and Deniss Cerkovskis of Latvia showed again what a great combination they make after the pair's 30 victories on the pistes and placed 17th in the pool to move up into first place with the Ride and Combined to go at the World Championships Mixed Relay.