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Another busy season for UIPM Sports in Egypt drew to a close with the latest UIPM Global Laser Run City Tour in Ain Sukhna on November 15.
The Madinty Club was the venue for the event and many families were on the entry list of almost 600 people across all age categories from Under-9 to Masters 60+.
On a beautiful sunny day the participants came from 23 different clubs and sports academies.
A year of discovery for the Afghanistan Modern Pentathlon Federation (AMPF) has concluded with its second UIPM Global Laser Run City Tour in the capital city of Kabul.
The Bahadur Khan public school was the venue for the event and 150 girls competed alongside 50 boys, with hundreds of other students spectating.
The global UIPM Sports community is celebrating after the athlete quota for Modern Pentathlon at the Youth Olympic Games was increased by 33%.
The rise from 48 to 64 means that more young athletes than ever before will be able to experience the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar (SEN) when it goes to Africa for the first time.
The Rio 2016 Olympic champion, Alexander Lesun (RUS), was in the audience as pentathletes joined officers from various branches of the Russian military in a special Laser Run tournament in Moscow (RUS).
It was the third such competition, held at the indoor track and field stadium of the Central Army Club on November 16. Athletes participating in youth, junior and senior categories enjoyed their experience of UIPM’s fastest-growing development sport.
The inclusive nature of Laser Run makes it easy to incorporate into other sporting events – which is exactly what happened when USA Pentathlon and USA Track & Field put on races side by side at a new annual gathering.
The Modern Pentathlon community in Lithuania is celebrating after a double success at the National Sports Awards.
Laura Asadauskaite, the London 2012 Olympic champion and current world No.2, was named Sportswoman of the Year for the third time having previously been honoured in 2011 and 2015.
Three of the best-known figures in the Egyptian Modern Pentathlon movement fronted up for the UIPM Sports movement at the 2019 World Youth Forum in Sharm-el-Sheikh (EGY).
The Egyptian Modern Pentathlon Federation (EMPF) was represented by three-time Olympian Aya Medany, Chair of the UIPM Athletes Committee and Member of the IOC Athletes Commission, 2019 Mixed Relay world champion Eslam Hamad and EMPF President Sharif Elerian.
04.-05.11.2019, Darmstadt, GER
UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann hosted a two-day meeting of the ad hoc working group preparing the 2nd edition of the book Modern Pentathlon - From the Past to the Future in the UIPM President’s Office.
The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) has released its calendar of global competitions for the Tokyo Olympic Games year of 2020.
Not only is the Olympic Games taking place in Asia in 2020, but UIPM’s two flagship competitions will also be on the continent – and no stone is being left unturned in preparation.
It is essential for competition organisers to have all the tools they need at their disposal to run Category A competitions, and that was the impetus for UIPM to run a Judges Certification Programme (JCP) course in Wuhan (CHN) ahead of the 2019 Asia/Oceania Championships and Olympic Qualifier.