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One of the pentathlon movement’s leading administrators has been recognised with a special award in his native Russia.
Viacheslav Aminov, UIPM Vice President for Business Affairs, President of the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation and Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), was awarded the highest award of the ROC in the week of his 60th birthday.
It has already been a remarkable year for the Global Laser Run City Tour in Africa, with six cities in five different countries enabling 1750 people to take part in UIPM’s fastest-growing development sport.
The latest venue to join the circuit was Ouahigouya in Burkina Faso, where more than 300 racers sampled the thrill of Laser Run for the first time.
The world’s most versatile athletes are preparing to do battle in Tokyo (JPN) after the UIPM 2019 Pentathlon World Cup Final line-up was revealed.
A glittering array of talent will be on show in the 2020 Olympic Games host city from June 27-30, with 72 pentathletes in their prime eager to secure Olympic qualification by winning gold in a competition that doubles as an official Tokyo 2020 test event.
Laser Run was introduced to the world with the aim of giving people from urban communities in all countries an entry point to UIPM Sports.
Now it has been embraced by the world’s most populous nation, and in spectacular style.
UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann has congratulated colleagues at the International Olympic Committee on the opening of Olympic House, their new headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The universal appeal of Laser Run was underlined in Dnipro, Ukraine, on May 31 when a host of athletes from different sports experienced the sport for the first time.
The second Global Laser Run City Tour in Dnipro was attended by more than 200 participants from eight regions of Ukraine – as well as well-known onlookers from triathlon, athletics, fencing and marine multisports who left the Meteor sport complex with a new awareness of one of the world’s fastest-growing urban sports.
The world’s leading pentathletes have gathered in Tokyo for a competition that carries huge relevance in the build-up to the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, now just 13 months away.
The UIPM 2019 Pentathlon World Cup Final is an official Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games test event. But while the event management process undergoes a thorough examination, this is no dress rehearsal for athletes.
The Global Laser Run City Tour has gained another new host country after Belarus staged its first two instalments of the urban sports phenomenon.
Athletes of all ages flocked to regional capitals Brest and Grodno, on May 11/12 and June 23 respectively, to get their first taste of UIPM’s fast-growing development sport.
A group of Laser Run specialists and pentathletes will make history as the first UIPM athletes to participate in the World Urban Games later this year in Budapest, Hungary.
The athletes who qualify for the inaugural event – eight men and eight women from visiting countries and the same quota from host nation Hungary – will compete in Sprint Laser Run in front of a global TV audience.
As the only Olympic champion in the field, Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania proved that class is permanent as she won her third Pentathlon World Cup Final gold medal and qualified for her fourth Olympic Games.