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A special Olympic Day was held in Kosovo on May 25 with Laser-Run at the heart of the celebrations.
About 5,000 children aged nine and ten – all of them born in Kosovo’s Independence Year of 2008 – took part in running events in seven different city centres.
Viacheslav Aminov, the UIPM Vice-President and Executive Board Member for Business Affairs, has been elected as Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).
Mr Aminov was appointed to his new position by the Russian Olympic Assembly, which elected Stanislav Pozdynakov as President in place of Alexander Zhukov.
Laser-Run has already spread across the latitude and longitude of the planet … and now it is happening at altitude.
The highest Global Laser-Run City Tour to date took place in La Paz, Bolivia, at 4200 metres above sea level, with 280 participants of various ages and socio-economic backgrounds.
This was not the only time the UIPM Sports movement made an impact in Bolivia recently.
Pentathletes competing at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games will only have to walk 300 metres from their accommodation to the Olympic Park where they will compete for medals.
Two of the venues for Modern Pentathlon will be shared with Swimming and Fencing and the athletes accommodation in the YOG Olympic Villa is only a short walk away.
Two of the world’s leading pentathletes played a supportive role as Hungary staged its first Global Laser-Run City Tour on June 2, 2018.
The event took place in the heart of Budapest on Margaret Island, a beautiful green space in the centre of the River Danube. The venue was the Margitsziget Athletic Centre, which hosted the 1999 UIPM Pentathlon World Championships.
Athletes from Argentina, Chile and Brazil played starring roles in the Modern Pentathlon competition at the 11th ODESUR Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
The South American multi-sports event returned to the country of its origin for the first time since it was created in 1978 and continued a succession of major sports events in South America, following the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and with the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (ARG) on the horizon as well as the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima (PER).
If she is going to retain her crown, Tamara Alekszejev of Hungary will have to overcome four women who have won the most coveted prizes in the sport in the past two years at the UIPM 2018 Pentathlon World Cup Final.
Alekszejev (HUN) has been one of the top performers on the circuit since her breakthrough victory in this event in Vilnius (LTU) 12 months ago, and currently sits at No.3 in the world rankings.
A UIPM Coaches Certification Programme course has been delivered entirely in the Russian language for the first time.
Fourteen students from Belarus and Ukraine attended the Level 2 course in Minsk (BLR), where the materials were all translated from English into Russian.
Mikhail Prokopenko, two-time world champion, Level 3 coach and President of the Belarus Modern Pentathlon Federation, joined the other students throughout the syllabus and completed the exam.
Chelyabinsk, a huge industrial city in the south of the Urals, has been one of the cornerstones of Modern Pentathlon development in Russia and now the public have embraced Laser-Run too.
More than 300 people, aged from seven to 74, took part in the Global Laser-Run City Tour on June 9. The entry list included local pentathletes who are already members of the Russian national team and participants from Chelyabinsk, Samara, Ekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, as well as neighbouring countries Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
08.-10.06.2018 Darmstadt (GER)