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Togo held its second Global Laser Run City Tour in Lome on December 21, 2019, building on the success of the opening event three months earlier.
Word had spread about Laser Run across the capital city, creating a buzz that encouraged more club leaders to mobilise participants to compete at the venue in the eastern suburb of Baguida.
Laser Run has returned to the Punjab region of Pakistan, where 341 athletes took part in the Global Laser Run City Tour in Rahim Yar Khan on December 25, 2019.
The first GLRCT in Pakistan took place in Lahore in November 2018, since when the Pakistan Modern Pentathlon Federation has worked to introduce the sport to more areas of the country.
Olympic pentathlete Joshua Riker-Fox, 36, has been named National Next Generation Development Coach by Pentathlon Canada.
Dr Klaus Schormann, President of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne, has issued a joint address with Secretary General Shiny Fang to mark the beginning of the 2020 Olympic season.
Their statement reads as follows:
Dear colleagues and friends of the UIPM movement,
We write to share with you some reflections at the beginning of this momentous year.
The Pentathlon movement in Belarus is buzzing right now.
Not only have Belarusian pentathletes won the women’s world title two years in a row, not to mention women’s team gold in 2019, but there is more excitement on the horizon as the UIPM 2021 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships has been awarded to Minsk (BLR).
At grassroots level, the feelgood factor was tangible when the Central Stadium of Molodechno hosted the final instalment of Belarus’s 2019 Global Laser Run City Tour series.
Not once but twice in the week before Christmas 2019, the people of the Ivory Coast sampled the joys of the Global Laser Run City Tour.
About 100 young athletes from the age of 11 took part in Yamoussoukro on December 21, with another 150 participants racing in the capital city of Abidjan two days later.
For the third year in succession, UIPM held a joint meeting of its Athletes, Coaches and Technical Committees in Frankfurt (GER) on January 23-25.
The ad-hoc New Pentathlon and New Tetrathlon Working Groups also convened to discuss and agree proposals to go before the Executive Board relating to format changes for the Dakar 2022 Youth Olympic Games and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Dr Thomas Bach, addressed the UIPM Executive Board on the first day of a two-day meeting at the new IOC Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI).
Dr Bach made a speech and took part in a Q&A with UIPM’s most senior decision-making body at Olympic House.
- Dynamic format concept for Paris 2024 Olympic Games ready for testing
- Changes to competition format for Dakar 2022 Youth Olympic Games ratified
- IOC President, Vice President and Sport Director address meeting in Lausanne (SUI)
Dynamic new formats for Modern Pentathlon and Tetrathlon at future Olympic Games were given the seal of approval by the UIPM Executive Board (EB) today.
An equestrian champion from the US who became a leading Modern Pentathlon administrator has received one of UIPM’s most prestigious awards on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Col John Russell, born on 2 February 1920, is the oldest surviving Olympic medalist in the US and the second-oldest in the world. Sixty-eight years since his bronze medal in Helsinki (1952), a group of former pentathletes gathered for his 100th birthday party.