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The UIPM 2016 Youth A World Championships continued today with qualifying for the Men’s Final.
There are a total of 144 athletes from 23 nations competing at the University of Limerick, where the format is Tetrathlon (Fencing, Swimming and the Combined Event of Running and Shooting).
The first medals will be decided tomorrow (July 16) during the Women’s Final, which is followed by the Men’s Final (July 17) and the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Relays (July 18).
Qualifiers for the Men’s Individual Final:
Aurora Tognetti of Italy set her sights on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after winning gold in the Women’s Individual Final at the UIPM 2016 World Youth A Championships.
An incredible sprint finish allowed Jeong Youngjin of Korea to win gold in the Men’s Individual Final at the UIPM 2016 World Youth A Championships.
Jeong, 18, started the closing Combined Event in 9th place but showed true grit, conviction and stamina to move past the leaders one by one.
Italy, Korea and Russia continued to dominate at the UIPM 2016 Youth A World Championships as the relay glory was split three ways.
All three nations had won individual or team gold medals earlier in the championships and extended their run of success on the final day of a successful championships at the University of Limerick.
The Executive Board of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) has noted the findings of the McLaren Report published on July 18 and the recommendations of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 24 and taken the following action:
With 50 days to go until the finals of the Modern Pentathlon competition, UIPM is delighted to announce the final list of 72 athletes who will compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
There will be 36 men and 36 women competing for Modern Pentathlon's ultimate prize in Rio, with 27 nations from the 6 UIPM confederations represented.
In the final list, three former Olympic champions will take part: Lena Schoeneborn (2008, Germany), Laura Asadauskaite (2012, Lithuania) and David Svoboda (2012, Czech Republic).
As part of the recent Sport for Life Youth Leadership Camp, and with special support from the UIPM, SportImpact, a social enterprise that promotes human development through sports, organized a Laser-Run demonstration for the first time ever in Dili, Timor-Leste.
The activities took place at Jardin de Borja, in Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste, during a multi-sport event including a dozen of other sports, all played non-competitively. Over 400 people took part in the event, mostly school boys and girls of ages 10 to 15.
One of our 2016 Olympians, Charles Fernandez of Guatemala, took time out of his Rio preparations to attend a two-day Outreach Workshop given by the International Olympic Committee’s Athlete Career Programme (ACP) in Lausanne (SWI).
This is a pilot program aimed at increasing awareness of the career options available to Olympic athletes when their competitive days come to an end.
The 2016 Olympic Games will be officially opened today and Modern Pentathlon will play a big part in the proceedings.
First the UIPM President, Dr Klaus Schormann, carried the Olympic Torch on its way to the Maracana Stadium. Then, during the Opening Ceremony in the stadium itself, Brazilian pentathlete Yane Marques will carry the flag for the host nation - the first time that this honour has been bestowed on a Modern Pentathlete in Brazil.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the Modern Olympic Games and the core Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon, settled into a new home in the Olympic Village today.
A 30kg iron bust of Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) has been donated to the Rio 2016 Organising Committee by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne, and it is now on display for athletes to see with the Modern Pentathlon competition just over a week away.