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After a long and arduous qualifying process, the world’s leading Modern Pentathletes are about to reach their destination on the Road to Rio.
Today at the UIPM World Championships 96 athletes from 34 countries took part in qualification for the Men’s Individual Final, which takes place on Saturday.
There were 36 places in the Final at stake and with many still striving to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, there was maximum motivation and commitment at Moscow’s Olympic Stadium.
Modern Pentathlon has a new world champion and Hungarian pentathlon a new hero after Sarolta Kovacs won Women’s Individual gold at the 2016 UIPM World Championships.
World No.15 Kovacs (HUN) started the Combined Event with a slender lead of 9 seconds but stunned her more celebrated rivals by stretching out in front with every lap of Moscow’s Olympic Stadium and holding her nerve at all of the Shooting ranges.
Modern Pentathlon has another new world champion after Valentin Belaud of France won Men’s Individual gold at the 2016 UIPM World Championships.
Aleksander Lesun returned to the top of the world as he and Donata Rimsaite teamed up to win gold in the Mixed Relay at the 2016 UIPM World Championships.
Their success was greeted with glee by the home crowd, who had been waiting with anticipation for their pentathletes to turn silver and bronze into gold all week.
Lesun (RUS) was one of those who had already stood on the podium as the winner of Men’s Individual silver, so this was the perfect way to close the championships for himself, the Russian team and the organizers.
The Modern Pentathlon World Cup Final 2017 will be held in Lithuania, in a wellness resort town of Druskininkai. The Lithuanian Modern Pentathlon Federation (LMPF) invites all modern pentathlon fans to take part in the contest of creating the logo for the World Cup Final.
All logos of UIPM are combined of 2 parts: a standard border and a unique small part for each competition. LMPF invites everyone to try their luck creating the unique part.
After over a year of travelling the world, 72 athletes are one step closer to reaching their Olympic dream.
The below athletes have earned qualification in the Modern Pentathlon event at Rio 2016 Olympic Games on 18-20 August 2016 through either continental qualification, World Cup Final/World Championships or the Olympic World Rankings, which closed today, 1 June 2016.
These athletes now need to be selected by their respective National Olympic Committees to compete in Rio de Janeiro.
Modern Pentathlon will be one of at least 27 International Sports Federations to feature on the Olympic Channel, an exciting new multi-platform media venture from the International Olympic Committee which will launch this year.
The UIPM has signed a collaboration agreement with Olympic Channel Services and fans of Modern Pentathlon and its sub-sports are encouraged to stay tuned for updates on the content that will result from this unique broadcasting opportunity.
France, one of the world’s strongest nations in Modern Pentathlon, demonstrated again the power of their pentathletes with extraordinary results at the UIPM 2016 World Championships.
As part of the preparation for the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the French Team of Modern Pentathlon is opening the centre of excellence INSEP, in Paris, for a training camp, from July 14 to August 5, 2016.
The rate per day per person is 74 euros in a double room and 84 euros in a single room. This rate includes full board accommodation and training (Fencing, Swimming and Combined).
With only 40 days to go to the Olympic Games, the IOC have addressed the need for an effective, coordinated response from the sports world to the threat of match-fixing and related corruption by publishing the Olympic Movement Code on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions. Moreover, the IOC has reinforced its Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) and is enhancing monitoring and information exchange between law enforcement agencies, sports organisations and betting operators/regulators.
The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) has appointed its first Ethics Commission, a three-strong panel that will assist the President and Executive Board on all questions related to good governance.
Siegfried Brand, President of the Guatemala Modern Pentathlon Association, will chair the commission and will be joined by members Angela Ives (Canada), a member of the UIPM Sport for All Commission, and Hiltrud Reder (Germany), a former member of the UIPM Technical Committee.