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Reigning champion Gulnaz Gubaydullina of Russia will defend her crown in the Women’s Individual Final of the UIPM 2018 Pentathlon World Cup Championships after coming through qualifying today.
The world No.4 will join the 2016 world champion and world No.2, Sarolta Kovacs of Hungary, in the final on September 12 after they claimed two of the 36 available places.
Reigning champion Jung Jinhwa of Korea will defend his crown in the Men’s Individual Final of the UIPM 2018 Pentathlon World Cup Championships after coming through qualifying today.
The world No.11 will join former world champions, Pavlo Tymoshchenko (2015) of Ukraine and Valentin Belaud (2016) of France, in the final on September 13 after they claimed three of the 36 available places.
Thirteen years after winning her first international gold, Anastasiya Prokopenko of Belarus enjoyed the crowning glory of her career as she became world champion for the first time.
She has had a glittering career, but until now victory in the Women’s Individual Final at the UIPM Pentathlon World Championships had eluded Prokopenko (BLR), who turns 33 next week and has two children.
Last year she won her first individual medal, a bronze, and this time nobody was going to come between her and the top of the podium.
Jamie Cooke of Great Britain prevailed in one of the most dramatic Modern Pentathlon races of all time to claim Men’s Individual gold at the UIPM Pentathlon World Championships.
After 200 metres in the pool, more than 35 fencing bouts, a round of show jumping, four laser shooting series and four 800m runs, in a Pentathlon Stadium at 2,200m altitude, the most coveted prize of the year was decided by a photo finish.
Laser Run made a successful debut at the Budapest Urban Games as the Hungarian Modern Pentathlon Association progressed its preparations for the 2019 Laser Run World Championships.
A competition was held with one professional and three open categories, and almost 100 participants took the opportunity to sample UIPM’s fastest-growing development sport in the historic surroundings of the Citadella.
The Modern Pentathlon will be one of the centrepieces of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (ARG), with all competitions taking place at the biggest of five venues – the Youth Olympic Park (YPA) – where there will also be special things happening off the field of play.
The new world champion, Anastasiya Prokopenko of Belarus, was back on the podium on the final evening of the UIPM 2018 Pentathlon World Championships – for a very special reason.
Ten years ago, aged, 22, the pentathlete from Slutsk finished 4th at her first Olympic Games, in 2008 in Beijing. Two more Olympics passed without Prokopenko being able to scale that podium.
For the second time this year, a group of aspiring coaches has gained a qualification in UIPM Sports thanks to the support of the IOC Olympic Solidarity fund.
Eighteen coaches attended the UIPM Level 1 coaching seminar in Dakar, Senegal, from September 3-7 and received tuition in Biathle and Triathle practice, competition organisation and pentathlete recruitment.
In the Old Town of Riga, a new sporting phenomenon established itself on September 1 as athletes of all ages raced each other through urban parks and historic squares.
The UIPM Global Laser Run City Tour has found another new host in the capital of Latvia, where more than 100 participants from various regions of the country tried Laser Run for the first time.
The African nation of Mali has given its people their first exposure to UIPM Sports with a Laser Run competition held in the capital city of Bamako.
The Malian Federation of Modern Pentathlon organised the Category B event in the grounds of Ibrahima Ly High School in the neighbourhood of Banankabougou.
A total of 250 young athletes from Mali took part, aged between nine and 19, as well as a delegation of 30 from neighbouring Burkina Faso.