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With a spectacular finale in Kostroma, Russia has completed its circuit of the 2018 UIPM Global Laser Run City Tour and declared an ambition to repeat the success next season.
The fifth leg of the 2018 GLRCT in Russia gathered 450 participants aged from 9 to 67 from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova. The tournament in Peace Square was held at a high level and all participants received certificates with the winners and medallists presented with international diplomas and medals.
The 6th World Modern Pentathlon Coaches Conference in Manchester (GBR) attracted a record attendance with 103 delegates from 18 nations taking part.
The annual conference gives coaches from around the world a chance to share best practice and training methods and the 2018 edition included topics relating to pentathlon training in areas such as physiology, psychology and biomechanics. Coaches from Nepal and Bangladesh took part for the first time in the three-day gathering from November 16-18, 2018.
A Winter Paralympic Games champion tried his hand at Para Laser Run for the first time during the 2018 UIPM Global Laser Run City Tour event in Auch (FRA).
It was the third of four GLRCTs taking place in France in 2018 and a number of wheelchair athletes were among the 180 participants.
Pakistan has become the latest country to join the UIPM Global Laser Run City Tour circuit after a successful first outing in the city of Lahore on November 8, 2018.
One of the central aims of the GLRCT is to introduce UIPM Sports to urban populations who would otherwise have no access to the multi-sport movement. With a sprawling population of 11 million, Lahore was the ideal place for the Pakistan Modern Pentathlon Federation (PMPF) to launch Laser Run to new communities.
One of pentathlon’s rising stars has been recognized for his remarkable success in 2018 with a prestigious international award.
Ahmed Elgendy of Egypt, UIPM 2018 world champion at Youth and Junior level and gold medallist at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (ARG), was named Best Junior Male Athlete at the UIPM 2018 Annual Awards in November in Limassol (CYP).
Leidis Laura Moya was the star of the 2018 Pan-American Championships in Lima, Peru, where she won an incredible three gold medals for Cuba.
The 2010 Youth Olympic Games gold medallist became Women’s Individual Pan-American champion for the second time and added further titles alongside her compatriots in the Women’s Relay and Mixed Relay.
The eighth and final UIPM Coaches Course of 2018 took place in the 2024 Olympic Games host city of Paris – and it was worth waiting for.
For the first time, a cohort of coaches completed the Level 4 stage of the UIPM Coaching Certification Programme (CCP) after five days of tuition in the capital of France from December 10-14.
After its first outing in Lahore, Pakistan has organized two more editions of the Global Laser Run City Tour, ending the year on a high and providing opportunities for hundreds of UIPM Sports enthusiasts.
Peshawar hosted a GLRCT on 25 November, with young athletes from a number of schools taking part.
Laser Run featured in a record-breaking family sports day held at Cempaka Schools in Malaysia as part of its 35th anniversary celebrations.
Students, parents, teachers and school alumni joined to participate in the Laser Run event, which was an official attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records and Malaysian Book of Records.
The feelgood factor from the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires continued to be felt across Argentina when 250 young people took part in a Global Laser Run City Tour in Santa Rosa City, La Pampa.