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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.
Right across the world, cities are considering the merits of staging a Laser-Run City Tour event and Martin Dawe, the UIPM Executive Board Member for Marketing, had discussions about the UIPM’s new competition concept during a visit to Pescara (ITA).
Mr Dawe travelled to the city for discussions with one of UIPM’s operational partners and he also met with the Mayor of Pescara and Director of Sports, Marco Alessandrini, during his visit.
With UIPM World Cup IV looming on the horizon, the Polish pentathlon stronghold of Drzonków hosted the International Junior Trophy and U19 European Modern Pentathlon Cup in the Provincial Sports and Recreation Centre of Zbigniew Majewski, where 85 athletes from 10 countries took part.
From left: Philipp Waeffler, FISU TD; Paulo Ferreira, FISU WUC Director; Istvan Gallai, Hungarian MP Association Secretary General, Host of MP WUC 2018; Alexandre França, UIPM Operations Manager
FISU’s World University Championships department hosted its biennial WUC Seminar, aimed at preparing future championship hosts, from 26-28 April in Lausanne (SUI).
Around 100 delegates from the Organizing Committees of 31 WUCs to be staged in 2018 were present.
It is with great sadness that one of the true greats of Pentathlon in Australia has passed away a little over a week ago.
Cornel Vena first came to Australia for the 1956 Olympics held in Melbourne representing his home country of Romania.
Following the Olympics, Cornel stayed in Australia and continued competing in both Pentathlon and Fencing.
A brief summary of his career is as below :
The latest Laser-Run City Tour in Rostov-on-Don (RUS) was held on 1 May, 2017 with 15 sets of medals for different age categories. There were 219 participants ranging from the age of six (the youngest was Spiridon Valaev) to 55 (the oldest was the Minister of Sport of Rostov-on-Don, Samvel Arakelyan).
- Olympic medallists Lesun (RUS) and Tymoshchenko (UKR) renew rivalry
- Kovacs (HUN) to defend territory against Clouvel (FRA) and French (GBR)
- Stellar line-up includes more than half of Rio 2016 field
The 2017 modern pentathlon season is poised to explode into action this week with more than half of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games field meeting in one of the sport’s traditional strongholds.