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After three successive top class World Cup Series events, UIPM is delighted to be able to announce the list of athletes that have qualified for the World Cup Final which will be held from 6-8 June in Sarasota-Bradenton, USA.
2014 World Cup Final Sarasota-Bradenton USA - Full list of qualified athletes
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The March-April edition of the UIPM Modern Pentathlon newsletter is now available to read online. Catch up on all that has been going in the sport these last two months.
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The Hungarian capital Budapest will from Wednesday 14 May host one of UIPM’s most important competitions of the year with the much anticipated Youth A World Championships doubling up as the main 2014 Youth Olympic Games qualifications. Over 200 athletes from over 36 nations will be battling it for the opportunity of representing their country on one of the biggest sporting stages of all. 6 days of action begin with the Team Relays tomorrow.
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The Team Relays at the 2014 Youth World Championships concluded in Budapest, Hungary, today with Italy winning the Women's Relay and Russia claiming victory in the Men's Relay.
Keep up to date with all the LIVE scores from the Women's Qualification stages at the Youth A World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Over a 200 athletes from 36 countries are taking part. The competition doubles up as the Youth Olympic Games qualifier.
The Combined events fort each Group have now been POSTPONED tomorrow due to torrential rain
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Schedule Thursday 15 May (time CET):
Group A:
Organisers of the Youth A World Championships in Budapest were forced to postpone the combined events of the three Women’s Qualification Groups today with torrential rain battering the Hungarian capital.
Weather permitting, the run/shoot disciplines will be held tomorrow Friday 16 May.
Provisional schedule
British Olympic silver medallist and former Modern Pentathlon world number one, Heather Fell will join Clipper Round the World Yacht Race team Jamaica Get All Right in its home port next week to sail the remainder of the circumnavigation.
The world’s longest ocean race, uniquely for amateur sailors and known as one of the toughest endurance challenges on the planet, will be Heather’s first major sporting challenge since she retired from professional competition earlier this year in January.
Following the postponement of the Women's qualification due to torrential rain, there was an overlap with the Men's qualification phase today Friday 16 May as 200 athletes from 35 countries battled it out to make their respective Youth 'A' World Championships Finals. There was be a pact schedule in the Hungarian capital Budapest with 3 groups for each gender.
Twenty-year-old Joe Evans contests his first major competition of the year when he represents Great Britain at the World Junior Championships in Poland next week 20-26 May. Evans, who is a member of an eight-strong Pentathlon GB team competing in Drzonków, Poland, won bronze on his senior World Cup debut in the USA last year, but his 2014 campaign has been disrupted by injury.
The 36 Women that made it to today's Final battled it out to see who will be crowned the 2014 Youth World Champion in the Hungarian capital Budapest. After some scintillating qualifiers, the action lived up to expectation with pentathlon of the highest order as vital places for the Youth Olympic Games were also up for grabs.
Italy's Aurora Tognetti was inspired in the combined event as she moved up from 11th on the starting grid to claim a sensational gold after some outstanding running and pinpoint accuracy in her shooting.