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UIPM World Cup II continued today with 9 of the world’s top 16 athletes among a field of 53 taking part in the qualifying round for the Women's Individual Final.
The Olympic silver medallist from Rio 2016, Elodie Clouvel (FRA) and the reigning world champion Sarolta Kovacs (HUN) were among the qualifiers along with 4 athletes from host nation Egypt.
The event is being held at Cairo International Stadium. The Egyptian capital will also be hosting the 2017 UIPM World Championships later in the year.
Pavlo Tymoshchenko of Ukraine won Men's Individual gold at 2017 UIPM World Cup II after a dominant performance in the Egyptian capital.
The 2015 world champion, who claimed an Olympic silver medal at Rio 2016, moved out in front during the Fencing discipline and took a 22-second lead into the Laser-Run which he defended with ease.
Behind him, world No.2 Valentin Prades (FRA) moved with great stealth through the field having started the Laser-Run in 11th place, and cruised home in second place 12 seconds behind the champion.
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Kate French of Great Britain was an emphatic winner of the Women's Individual gold medal at UIPM 2017 World Cup II.
The 26-year-old, who finished 6th at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, celebrated her first World Cup success only four weeks after winning silver at World Cup I in Los Angeles (USA).
- Prasiantsova and Kasyanik too hot to handle in Cairo
- Great Britain secure silver and Hungary bronze
- Impressive performances from Italy and Japan
For the third successive day, gold was won with something to spare at World Cup II as Belarus claimed the Mixed Relay title.
Iryna Prasiantsova and Kiril Kasyanik (BLR) proved strongest in Fencing and held on to their advantage for the rest of the day, defending a Laser-Run lead of 22 seconds with no significant alarm.
Following the success of the first event at World Cup I in Los Angeles (USA), UIPM staged a second demonstration of Laser-Run with obstacles after the Women’s Individual Final at the Cairo International Stadium.
The obstacles included hurdles, pyramids, slalom and half pipes and the demonstration was watched by a large crowd of appreciative and curious spectators at the front of the tribune.
More than 200 athletes from Georgia competed in the UIPM’s new and innovative Laser-Run City Tour, held in Tbilisi on April 1.
The concept is designed to showcase Laser-Run to a global audience and give more and more athletes worldwide an introduction to UIPM Sports, starting them on a road that can end at the Olympic Games.
The second UIPM Laser Run City Tour was hosted on 8 April in the city of Sausset les Pins in the south of France, a few kilometres from Marseille.
The 3rd round of the 2017 UIPM Laser-Run City Tour (LRCT) was held in Karnal, India on April 9.
This was India's first experience of hosting a Laser-Run event and it was a great success with 205 athletes from 12 states taking part.
More than 30 technical officials assisted the Modern Pentathlon Federation of India (MPFI) and the UIPM delegation in organising the competition.
Every pentathlete who wins a medal at the Olympic Games has enough memories to last a lifetime.
Thanks to one of UIPM’s equipment partners, the stars who graced the Olympic podium in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 can now remind themselves what it was like to compete at the Games from the comfort of their own homes.
Dr Schneider Messtechnik, the company that provided laser-shooting targets in Rio, has donated the original targets that were used by the six 2016 Olympic medallists in modern pentathlon:
Two UIPM office-bearers have been elected to commissions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the next 12 months.
UIPM President, Dr Klaus Schormann, has been re-elected to the IOC Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission, marking 23 years of continuous service. Dr Schormann served on the IOC Culture Commission from 1994 to 2001 when it was expanded to include Olympic Education and Heritage.
UIPM Vice President, Joël Bouzou, was re-elected to the IOC Sport and Active Society Commission, which he has served since 2015.