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Almost 70 athletes from 17 National Federations including Egypt gathered in Gyomro, Hungary, for the ECMP Masters Open European Championships.
04.09.-09.09.2019, Budapest, HUN
UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann fulfilled a wide variety of prestigious engagements during the first-ever combined UIPM Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships.
The Rome 1960 Olympic silver medallist, Hanno Selg, has died at the age of 87.
Born in Tartu in Estonia in 1932, Selg became a strong component of the Soviet Union Modern Pentathlon team and it was with this team that he enjoyed his crowning glory.
Finishing 10th in the individual Olympic Pentathlon in Rome, he contributed to the USSR’s 2nd place overall alongside the legendary Igor Novikov and Nikolai Tatarinov. Hungary won team gold and USA picked up the bronze.
South America recently became the first continent in the world to have a 100% representation of UIPM national federations, and Panama is one of several countries energetically promoting grassroots development.
The country held its first edition of the Global Laser Run City Tour on August 24, giving young athletes and family members their first taste of competitive Laser Run and the urban sports phenomenon that has spread across the world since its introduction in 2017.
- Twenty-one experts appointed by UIPM Executive Board to review competition formats
- New Pentathlon Working Group to consider changes for Olympic Games Paris 2024
- New Tetrathlon Working Group to finalise format for Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2022
Twenty-one of the most respected individuals in the UIPM Sports movement have been appointed to two working groups charged with shaping the future of Modern Pentathlon and Tetrathlon.
Few countries have embraced the Global Laser Run City Tour as readily as Ukraine, and the last instalment of another busy year of events took place in Kharkiv on September 29.
Racing took place at the military campus of the Kharkiv National Air Force University and 254 athletes came from six regions of Ukraine to take part, brushing off the challenge of high winds.
UIPM has scheduled its second Level 3 course for coaches aspiring to gain a senior qualification through the Coaching Certification Programme (CCP).
In conjunction with the Portuguese Modern Pentathlon Federation, UIPM will host the course in Leiria (POR) from December 16-20, 2019.
Portugal has already organized courses at all four CCP levels in the past two years, and the Level 3 syllabus is designed to certify professional coaches already involved in Modern Pentathlon.
The UIPM Sports movement in Egypt built on the success of the UIPM 2018 Biathle-Triathle World Championships with another mass gathering in the autumn of 2019.
Hurghada (EGY) proved yet again to be a magnetic host as 338 athletes took part in the first day of the Biathle-Triathle National Tour and 145 on the second day in the last week of September.
Participants came from 23 Pentathlon clubs across five cities as the 2019 BTNT circuit created another thrilling instalment.
Dozens of the world’s leading pentathletes have qualified for the Modern Pentathlon finals at the 7th World Military Games in Wuhan, China.
World silver medallist Elena Micheli of Italy and Rio 2016 Olympic medallists Elodie Clouvel of France and Oktawia Nowacka of Poland were among the most prominent athletes in the women’s qualification round on October 22.
- Hosts USA win senior title on day one thanks to Achterberg and Elgeziry
- Seven other nations claim gold in Biathle Mixed Relay
- More than 420 athletes from 33 countries gather in Florida