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The 2020 Olympic Modern Pentathlon season began with a thrilling Peridot Indoor Competition in Budapest (HUN) and gold medals to savour for Great Britain and Germany.
Joanna Muir (GBR) retained her Women’s Individual title ahead with Annika Schleu (GER) again claiming the silver medal behind her, while Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist Elodie Clouvel of France took home the bronze.
09.01. – 17.01.2020, LAUSANNE, SUI
UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann attended the 3rd Youth Olympic Winter Games, where he also took part in the 135th IOC Session on January 10.
Natalya Coyle put Modern Pentathlon on the map in Ireland when she broke through and started to enjoy global success in the early 2010s, and she shows no sign of relenting as we move into a new decade.
Competing alongside her training partner and boyfriend Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe, she initially enjoyed success in the Mixed Relay, where the duo won gold at two consecutive Pentathlon World Cup Finals in 2016 in Sarasota (USA) and in 2017 in Vilnius (LTU).
The flagship competition of the 2020 UIPM Modern Pentathlon season has been moved due to travel restrictions imposed following the Coronavirus outbreak in China.
The city of Xiamen (CHN), due to host the UIPM 2020 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships from May 25-31, has accepted an offer from UIPM to stage the 2022 instalment instead. Minsk (BLR) had already been confirmed as host city in 2021.
The historic first Global Laser Run City Tour in Turkey was marked by an outstanding act of fair play.
Racing in the Under 15 male category, Kivanc Tasyaran from the Ankara province was leading when he lost his footing and fell to the ground.
Instead of taking advantage of his rival’s misfortune, Erkan Altunay stopped and helped Kivanc to his feet before they crossed the finish line together.
Poland’s association with the Global Laser Run City Tour began in Tczew in May 2019, and the year ended with another successful competition in the Baltic port of Gdynia.
Poland has a glorious history in Modern Pentathlon, having produced the Olympic champion in 1976 and 1992, and now the country is embracing the most accessible and popular UIPM development sport.
Year after year, Portugal continues to be a true Laser Run trailblazer.
In 2020, the country will host numerous editions of the Global Laser Run City Tour having finished the year 2019 in style.
The city of Leiria was the final venue for the 2019 circuit, where hundreds of participants raced with enthusiasm and determination in rainy conditions.
One of the fundamental purposes of Laser Run is to give aspiring pentathletes their first step on the pathway towards the Olympic Games.
So it was fitting that the final Global Laser Run City Tour of 2019 in the United States should take place at the home of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Laser Run enthusiasts flocked to compete in high-quality facilities where the USA’s high-performance pentathletes frequently train.
Argentina ended 2019 with a flurry of Laser Run activity, with a series of four Global Laser Run City Tours in different cities.
The sequence began in San Martin, in the province of Buenos Aires, where more than 300 pupils attend an Institute which includes a sports school, enabling talent to be developed from a young age.
Modern Pentathlon has been bringing innovation to the Olympic Summer Games ever since its introduction in Stockholm in 1912.
Even in winter, the movement never steps exploring new and better ways to provide athletes with the most challenging tests of body and mind, and it was in this spirit that a new form of Laser Run was introduced in Davos (SUI) recently.