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Ekaterina Khuraskina and Aleksander Lesun of Russia won the Mixed Relay's World Cup Final in Sarasota, Florida. Second place was taken by pair of China while in third came Lithuanians.
As one of the planet's strongest nations in Modern Pentathlon, France has continuously produced some top talent with the likes of Valentin Prades and Christopher Patte currently in the men's World top 10 and Elodie Clouvel one of the most recognisable athletes in the women's circuit.
With several centres of excellence dotted around the country, this weekend will be the opportunity to see the depth of talent in the country with the French National Championships taking place at the state of the art INSEP in Paris.
The traditional Kremlin Cup begins this weekend in the Russian capital Moscow and Brazil's Yane Marques, the defending champion in the women's draw, has only eyes on retaining the trophy she claimed in such style last time around.
After ended the World Cup Final a disappointing 28th last weekend in Sarasota, London 2012 bronze medallist and current World No.3 Marques is fully focused on the challenge ahead. She is joined in Moscow by her teamate Priscilla Oliveira.
Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray and former world champion Mhairi Spence are among an array of the country’s most talented modern pentathletes competing at the GB Open Pentathlon Championships in Solihull later this month.
The championships are organised by Pentathlon GB, the national governing body for the Olympic sport of modern pentathlon and take place at the Tudor Grange Leisure Centre and the Solihull Riding Club on Sunday 29 June.
In Pentathlon Canada’s new YouTube short “No Short Cuts”, 2012 Olympian Melanie McCann offers a rare glimpse into the daily grind required of a world-class modern pentathlete, a sport that dictates excellence in the five disciplines of fencing, swimming, show jumping, running and pistol shooting. McCann’s 11th place finish at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK - the best-ever result by a Canadian pentathlete at a Games - showcased that her relentlessnes
Reigning Olympic and World Champion Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania confirmed her fine form this season with the much coveted Kremlin Cup trophy after winning the event in Moscow. A series of quality performances in each discipline by the Lithuanian winning machine saw her come out on top in a star-studded line-up. It was her speed in the combined run/shoot that made the difference as the 30-year-old stormed to victory. Germany’s Annika Schleu took silver and Donata Rimsaite of Russia brought home the bronze.
The French National Championships took place this weekend at INSEP in Paris with an Open competition run in parallel. Valentin Prades claimed the men’s gold and Elodie Clouvel successfully defended her status as the No.1 female French athlete whilst Great Britain’s Freyja Prentice triumphed in the women’s Open competition.
With the level extremely high in both draws, a scintillating competition ensued in both the men and women’s draws.
A week after claiming an impressive victory in the World Cup Final, Aleksander Lesun of Russia was at it again, taking a sublime gold in the men’s draw at Kremlin Cup to cap off an incredible few days for himself. With a prize money pot of $100,000 across the women and men’s draws, the competition was fierce.
Lesun got off to a perfect start with victory on the fencing pistes. 17 wins with the epee as he faced 23 opponents. He never relinquished his lead from then on, coming 6th in the swim in a time of 2:06 before a perfect ride put him on the combined pole.
The Belorussian capital Minsk is currently hosting the Junior European Championships with the qualification stages underway. Yesterday saw the women battle it out in two groups to decide who would make the cut for the final. Lithuania's Karolina Guzauskaite and Great Britain's Alice Fitton topped the charts in their respective groups.
Following on from her success at both the Youth A World Championships, where she claimed an individual bronze and the team gold, and the Junior World Championships, where she added another team gold after coming fourth in the individual draw, Pentathlon GB's Francesca Summers has been named SportsAid athlete of the month.