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After three events in the north of the country in 2017, the Global Laser-Run City Tour has now been launched in southern India after a successful edition in Chennai on June 22, 2018.
The Chennai Institute of Technology hosted 231 athletes spanning all age groups from Under-11 to Masters 50+, most of them sampling Laser-Run for the first time.
The final qualifying list for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games will be known in a few weeks’ time and hundreds of teenage athletes across the continents are still chasing their dream of competing in Buenos Aires in October.
With ranking points still at stake, the final opportunity for athletes to improve their qualification prospects took place in Tbilisi, Georgia during the 2018 European Cup Georgia Open.
Portugal’s committed approach to the Global Laser-Run City Tour continued on July 1 with the second of four events in 2018 taking place in Alenquer.
The event in Alenquer, 60km north of the capital Lisbon, drew competitors from 12 clubs with more than half of participants (121) competing in the youth categories from Under-11 to Under-17.
Racing took place at the Urban Park of Romeira and sparked the interest of the local population who had the chance to witness Laser-Run for the first time.
There were historic gold medals to savour for France, Italy, Poland and Egypt at the first-ever FISU World University Modern Pentathlon Championship in Budapest, Hungary, where Egypt won a medal in all four events.
The inaugural championship was a huge success, attracting high-quality pentathletes from 18 nations across five continents to a new facility at the Ludovika campus of the National University of Public Service in Hungary’s capital city.
One of the highlights of the year for pentathlon coaches is the annual trip to Manchester (GBR) for the UIPM World Coaches Conference.
The 2018 conference will take place for the sixth time in the northern English city on the weekend of November 16-18, and participants can register online now.
The UIPM 2018 Masters World Championships has demonstrated the growing importance of enabling the UIPM Sports community to stay involved in competition throughout their life.
He celebrated his 80th birthday in May 2018, but Erwin Stalder of Switzerland did not see the passing of this landmark as a reason to urgently change his lifestyle.
Burkina Faso has joined the Global Laser-Run City Tour circuit with a successful competition held in the city of Koupela on June 30, 2018.
The event took place alongside the 4th edition of the National Laser-Run Championships, with more than 200 people taking part in the mass-participation City Tour and more than 130 vying for national titles.
The Portuguese city of Braga has the honour of being a European City of Sport throughout 2018 so it was fitting that one of the world’s most progressive global sporting circuits paid a visit on July 15.
It was the third of four Global Laser-Run City Tours held in Portugal in 2018, and almost 100 people took part in nine age categories ranging from under-11 to over-50, racing around the historic city centre and testing their running and laser-shooting abilities.
French sport is riding on the crest of a wave this summer and their pentathletes completely dominated the 2018 European Championships in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, winning five of the seven gold medals on offer.
The individual titles went to Marie Oteiza and Valentin Prades, who was joined on the top of the podium by Christopher Patte and Valentin Belaud as the trio were crowned men’s team champions.