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Following on from his success at the Hungarian National Fencing Championships where he took gold in epee, World No. 3 Adam Marosi will be looking to get his season off to a flying start by winning the Budapest Indoors this weekend.
With home advantage and a partisan crowd set to give him great support, 29-year-old will be one of the outstanding favourites to claim victory in the men's competition.
His compatriots Robert Kasza and Peter Tibolya will most probably his main rivals for the title.
In her role as an Athlete Role Model for the Youth Olympic Games, European Champion and reigning Junior World Champion Zsofia Foldhazi, who took silver in the Modern Pentathlon event at the first edition of the YOG in Singapore four years ago, will be promoting the YOG and the Olympic values in both her native Hungary and during the Games.
Upon receiving the news during competition at the Budapest Indoors this weekend, Foldhazi could not contain her delight, declaring, “Wow, what an honour, I am so happy right now.”
Over sixty (60) participants plus coaches from all Australian states as well as New Zealand are currently in Melbourne for a three weapon (25 epeeists) intensive camp for elite and sub elite athletes, a junior development camp plus specialist Laser shooting training using the equipment gifted by the UPM and Eko-Aims.
The Victorian Modern Pentathlon 4 event Championships were held on last week and a Camp pentathlon gets underway tomorrow.
At the Italian Open Modern Pentathlon Championships in Rome this weekend, young Francesca Gandolfo excelled as she took an impressive gold in the senior women’s draw. Nicolas Benedetti took the men’s title.
This weekend saw the Ukraine Winter Modern Pentathlon Championships take place in the capital Kiev with five days of top quality competition as the best athletes from around the country turned up to battle it out for supremacy on their home turf. The first three days was dedicated to the Senior athletes with the last two determining who were the best in the Youth A, B and C categories.
France’s triple World Modern Pentathlon Champion Amélie Cazé has decided to bring the curtain down on her glittering career this week. The 29-year-old, who also claimed two European titles and appeared at three Olympic Games, had been one of the sport’s leading lights ever since she burst onto the scene as a precocious talent to win silver medals at both the Junior World and Junior European Championships in 2003.
A young eight-strong British team will contest the first modern pentathlon World Cup of 2014 at Acapulco in Mexico that begins Wednesday 26 February
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray is, at 24, the most experienced member of a team in which half of the athletes are 21 or younger.
After a disappointing run of results in 2013, the German team have come to Acapulco, Mexico, to show they mean business at World Cup #1. A good mix of experience and new blood is sure to give the team good balance and a fresh hunger to perform.
27-year-old Beijing 2008 Olympic gold medallist Lena Schöneborn will be leading her troops and after taking time away from the sport early last year to concentrate on her studies, she will now have full pre-season under her belt and will be keen to get her campaign off to a flyer.
The resort of Acapulco on the Pacific coast of Mexico will from today be playing host to some of the world’s best pentathletes in the much anticipated 2014 World Cup Series opener. With the first technical meeting and opening ceremony having taken place, the teams are now raring to go with the competition set to last from 26 February to 2 March at the Unidad Deportivo Acapulco. The action will get underway with the women’s qualification on Wednesday and will come to a close with the Mixed Relay on Sunday.