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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - Francesca Summers and Eilidh Prise (GBR) are the new Women's Relay champions at the UIPM 2015 Junior World Championships in Mexico City.
In another dramatic finish, the British Team came from the 4th place to beat the Russian Team in the last meters of the combined event, here in Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - Shuhuan Li and Xiuting Zhong are the new Mixed Team Relay champions at the UIPM 2015 Junior World Championships in Mexico City.
BATH, ENGLAND - Italy’s Camilla Lontano and Valerio Grasselli won the first gold medal of the 2015 Modern Pentathlon European Championships after an exciting opening day at the University of Bath.
The duo performed consistently well throughout the mixed team relay competition, taking the lead after a strong fencing performance and producing the only clear round in the ride.
BATH, ENGLAND - Germany and Ukraine reigned in the rain at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships on Wednesday as they won the women’s and men’s team relay titles respectively at the University of Bath.
Lena Schoneborn, the reigning individual World Champion and 2008 Olympic Champion, produced a classy run/shoot to secure European gold with Annika Schleu in the women’s event.
BATH, ENGLAND - Lithuania’s Justinas Kinderis and Hungary’s Adam Marosi led the qualifiers for the men’s final at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships, being staged at the University of Bath.
Kinderis, the 2013 World Champion, overtook home athlete Jamie Cooke on the last stage of the combined run/shoot to win qualifying Group B on Thursday.
“The most important thing was to qualify for Saturday's finals – I just did my job in the combined and everywhere,” Kinderis said.
BATH, ENGLAND - Germany’s Lena Schoneborn and Lithuania’s Laura Asadauskaite, the reigning World and Olympic champions respectively, are among the 36 qualifiers for Sunday’s Modern Pentathlon European Championships women’s final at the University of Bath. All four British athletes also safely negotiated Friday’s qualifiers, including London 2012 Olympic silver-medallist Samantha Murray and Francesca Summers, the newly-crowned World Junior Champion.
CAIRO, EGYPT - The two African representatives for the Modern Pentathlon event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were decided in Cairo at the 2015 African Olympic Qualification Championships: Eslam Hamad and Haydy Morsy both from Egypt have booked their spots for Rio though not without strong competition from their team mates in an event which also welcomed new athletes onto the African stage from Mauritius, Madagascar and Burkina Faso.
Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe produced an outstanding performance across all five disciplines to be crowned as men’s champion at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships at the University of Bath.
Lithuania’s Laura Asadauskaite surged from 11th to first to claim a dramatic victory at the University of Bath and add Modern Pentathlon European Championships gold to her Olympic and World Cup Final titles. France’s Elodie Clouvel and World Champion Lena Schoneborn took silver and bronze respectively in the women’s final on Sunday, while there was a popular team gold for Great Britain. Kate French, a member of that successful team, provided more home cheer as she claimed one of the eight Rio 2016 Olympic Games qualification places up for grabs.
The UIPM was founded during the 1948 London Olympic Games at Sandhurst and before this time Modern Pentathlon was administered by the International Olympic Committee. To recognise this historic landmark the UIPM, the British Army and Pentathlon GB organised an event at Sandhurst on 24 August 2015, in the company of many notable guests. Among these were members of the family of Brigadier Leslie Wieler, who did so much at the time to facilitate and encourage the formation of the Union.