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We are pleased to announce that Dario Fegatelli (ITA) and Jhon Godoy (URU) are the winners of the contest "MAKING A DIFFERENCE: MY APPROACH TO MODERN PENTATHLON COACHING". The judges chose their entry out of 13 paperworks received from Argentine, Belarus, Brazil, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Italy, Latvia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA. Congratulations to all of them!
In Egypt, volunteering in Modern Pentathlon is clearly on the rise after the success of the 2016 UIPM Junior World Championships.
The event was supported by 80 Egyptian volunteers and three from overseas, and they worked in areas including transportation, airport assistance, media, VIP and protocol, logistics and team liaison.
Aya Medany of Egypt has become the first Modern Pentathlete to be appointed by the IOC President to the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The three-time Olympian, who was the youngest pentathlete at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games when she made her Olympic debut aged 15, has been notified of her election two months after the formation of a new Commission during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 18.
SARASOTA, USA - More than 500 athletes from 25 countries have gathered on the west coast of Florida to participate in the 2016 UIPM Biathle-Triathle World Championships.
Athletes aged from the Youth F category (eight and under) to Masters will compete in two different formats over three days at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, where the UIPM 2016 World Cup Final was held.
The competition begins on October 21 with Mixed Relays in both Biathle and Triathle, followed by the Individual Triathle on October 22 and Individual Biathle on October 23.
The 2016 UIPM Biathle-Triathle World Championships began with a double dose of delight for the host nation as USA claimed senior gold medals in both the Biathle and Triathle Mixed Relays.
Husband-and-wife pair Logan (27) and Erin (25) Storie claimed top spot in the Biathle relay thanks to a performance of perfect synergy in front of a home crowd at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida.
The 2016 UIPM Biathle-Triathle World Championships continued on day two with success for the USA and France in the senior individual Triathle events.
Defending men's champion Alexandre Henrard (FRA) managed to retain his title at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, while Samantha Achterberg (USA) claimed gold in the women's event.
Henrard (FRA) won by a slim margin of five seconds from silver medallist David Ruales (ECU) with Pieter Oosthuizen (RSA) claiming bronze.
Alexandre Henrard of France confirmed his status as a master of multiple UIPM Sports with two gold medals at the 2016 UIPM Biathle-Triathle World Championships.
Henrard, 24, claimed men’s individual gold in Biathle (Run/Swim/Run), 24 hours after he had conquered the field in Triathle (Swim/Run/Shoot).
In 2015, the French star won both of these competitions and also came out on top at the Laser-Run World Championships, so his tally of senior UIPM golds now stands at an incredible five in two years.
From October 24th to 28th UIPM conducted in Santo Domingo a Level 1 Coaches Course. The Dominican Republic Modern Pentathlon Federation hosted the classes with 18 coaches from different parts of the country at the Olympic National Training Center. Alexandre França, member of the UIPM Instructors Group, lectured the following topics: exercise physiology, training planification and periodization.
A tree was planted in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan on October 21, 2016 in recognition of the first visit of UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann and in memory of Modern Pentathlon's founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The ceremony took place during the Asian Championships with National Federation President Valerii Novikov present.
One of the most influential members of the Slovak Modern Pentathlon Association, Vladimir Cerny, passed away on October 30, 2016 at the age of 90.
Mr Cerny became an Olympian in Melbourne in 1956 when he competed for Czechoslovakia, which he also did at numerous World Championships.
He went on to be a senior administrator of the sport, first with the Czechoslovakian Modern Pentathlon Federation and, in 1968, when he was elected to the Executive Board of what was then UIPMB: the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon.