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Olympic silver medallist and former world number one Heather Fell has announced her retirement from modern pentathlon after 12 years competing at international level to pursue a career in the media.
The highpoint of Fell’s illustrious career was a terrific performance at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 when she became the fourth British athlete to win an Olympic medal since the sport for women was included on the Olympic programme at Sydney 2000.
Initiated by the South American Modern Pentathlon Confederation and the Peruvian Modern Pentathlon Association, with support from the Peru Olympic Committee, the Military Sports Federation and the Military Academy, this Olympic solidarity seminar gave the foundations for the country to host several high quality Modern Pentathlon competitions in the coming years.
20 athletes from Ontario, Canada and the USA (Michigan and Indiana) ventured out to the University of Toronto's Athletic Centre on January 5th to compete in the first Pentathlon Ontario Winter Invitational to be held in several years.
21-year-old 2010 Youth Olympic Games Modern Pentathlon champion Leydi Laura Moya López has been nominated by the Cuban Olympic Committee to be their Young athlete ambassador at this year’s YOG in Nanjing, China.
Britain’s modern pentathletes got their season underway at the first of two GB national ranking competitions in Bath this weekend.
The competition gave a host of younger athletes an opportunity to show their mettle alongside some of the more established athletes training at the National Training Centre at the University of Bath.
Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director, said: “Competition is the best form of training, so it was a good preparation for the athletes.
Shiny Fang, UIPM Secretary General, concluded her two-day visit to Sarasota-Bradenton on January 9-10, 2014 by declaring that she is “impressed and excited” by the local support she witnessed for the four major Pentathlon events Sarasota and Bradenton will host during the next three years, including three World Cup competitions and the Olympic Trials.
Europe’s top modern pentathletes will begin the battle for Olympic selection in the UK when the University of Bath hosts the 2015 European Modern Pentathlon Championships – the first senior international modern pentathlon competition held in the UK since the London 2012 Olympic Games.
As one of the emerging countries from the African continent, Namibia showcased some of its burgeoning talent at last year’s Biathle Triathle World Championships and now hopes to build on that success as it looks to establish the five disciplines of Modern Pentathlon in its country.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) mapped out plans for the next few years with high hopes that its athletes can impact once again on the world stage.
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) was formally established today and will be headed by former Prime Minister of Japan Yoshiro Mori. Tokyo 2020 has reached a new milestone in its journey to deliver a superb Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020.
The appointments of Yoshiro Mori as President of The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and Toshiro Muto as Chief Executive Officer were also officially confirmed today.
After having finished her studies and started her traineeship at Deutsche Post DHL, German Lena Schöneborn looks forward to another challenge along with her athletic career.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medallist will join the advisory board of the Deutsche Sportlotterie (“German sports lottery”) in a project initiated at the end of last year by discus gold medalist Robert Harting and entrepreneur Gerald Wagener which aims to develop new funding models for athletes in Germany.