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World Championship silver medallist Nick Woodbridge has collected the British Modern Pentathlon Athlete of the Year Award for 2013.
The double Olympian made a piece of history when he won the individual silver medal at the World Championships in Chinese Taipei in August.
His medal was the first individual World Championships medal won by a British male pentathlete since Richard Phelps’ gold in 1993.
The trophy is provided by the British Olympic Association and Woodbridge received if from Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director.
USA Pentathlon have published the list of their major National Competitions, qualifying events and training camps for the year 2014. Find the list below.
With UIPM keen to provide the platform with which students from the AISTS Sports Management course can gain practical experience of working within the International Federation of an Olympic sport, the governing body of Modern Pentathlon worldwide has signed a partnership agreement with AISTS that will see students come to the Monaco office and assist with the various projects undertaken by the Headquarters.
The Modern Pentathlon Federation of Argentina have received important information from the Ministry of Social Development and the University of Buenos Aires, have implemented a curriculum for athletes, which will allow them to study and continue to compete at the same time.
Pentathlon Ireland are currently looking for a World Class Coach to take current and emerging athletes to a higher performance level and realise ambitions of winning medals on a world stage
Job Opportunity: Modern Pentathlon Coach
Employer: Pentathlon Ireland
Location: Dublin
Job Type: Contract
When all the drama was happening last year regarding which sport would be dropped from the Olympic program (it ended up being wrestling, which was then reinstated), the biggest argument against Modern Pentathlon was that it is an antiquated sport with no place in future Olympic programs.
Great Britain’s Olympic Team Leader at the past four Games, Dominic Mahony, has been awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire medal) for voluntary services to Modern Pentathlon in the New Year’s Honours list it was announced today.
Dominic, who competed in two Olympic Games winning team bronze in 1988 has served as a Board member of Pentathlon GB since 1997 and was the first Chairman of the UIPM Athletes Committee and Executive Board member from 1993-1997.
The 2014 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods is now available and can be found HERE
The 2014 List, valid as of January 1, 2014, is currently available in English, French and Spanish.
Modern pentathlete Sam Weale has announced his retirement from the sport after a career spanning more than a decade that saw him compete at two Olympic Games.
Weale took up the demanding sport of modern pentathlon in 2000 and represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, finishing 10th, the best performance by a GB man since Graham Brookhouse’s eighth in 1992.
He followed that up with 13th place competing in front of a home audience at the London 2012 Olympics.
I am absolutely blown away by the positive response the last blog I wrote got in the international Modern Pentathlon community! It was intended to be a playful way to explain the magic of our sport to my non-pent friends. In order to do the topic justice, though, I feel I should write a real blog explaining why I truly love this sport.