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Steph Cook is one of five women who have won the ultimate prize in Modern Pentathlon – the Olympic gold medal. But for four years she stood alone on that pedestal.
It was the dawn of a new millennium. The year 2000 in Sydney (AUS), a new era for the Olympic Games and especially for Modern Pentathlon, which finally had the gender balance that today we take for granted.
One UIPM athlete will be offered a unique chance to join the next generation of sports professionals by spending a year studying in Sochi (RUS).
As part of the UIPM Athletes Career Programme (ACP), a scholarship has been secured for the Master of Sport Administration course at the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) for the year 2020-21.
The remainder of the UIPM 2020 Pentathlon World Cup season has been postponed until May due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The competition circuit kicked off in Cairo (EGY) in February but the remaining World Cup events in Sofia (BUL) and Budapest (HUN), as well as the World Cup Final in Seoul (KOR), will now be rescheduled in May and June if appropriate arrangements can be made.
Kitty Chiller, President of Modern Pentathlon Australia and the Oceania Confederation, was one of six winners of the International Olympic Committee’s Women and Sport Awards 2020.
The winners were revealed on INternational Women’s Day on March 8 and the IOC said of the six recipients: “All have made remarkable contributions to the development, encouragement and reinforcement of women’s and girls’ participation in sport.”
UIPM has written to the organisers of more than 20 upcoming mass-participation events to announce the suspension of all global development sports activity.
The entire programme of UIPM Global Laser Run City Tours (GLRCTs) and Biathle/Triathle National Tours (BTNTs) for March, April and May 2020 has been suspended to assist with the international effort to combat the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
The President of UIPM, Dr Klaus Schormann, has sent a message of support to UIPM’s Honorary President, HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, following the news that His Highness has tested positive for the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
President Dr Schormann said: “Our entire global community is in shock about this news and on behalf of the UIPM Family I would like to send our very best wishes to our Honorary President, who has been at the helm of our movement since 1997.
Pentathletes in the Egyptian Modern Pentathlon Federation (EMPF) have come up with a meaningful project to support their community – delivering boxes of supplies to people in need.
The EMPF identified people working in the UIPM Sports community who are struggling with the COVID-19 Coronavirus crisis or the measures imposed to tackle the pandemic. They created a programme entitled ‘For Our Families’.
UIPM has written to the organisers of more than 20 upcoming mass-participation events to announce the suspension of all global development sports activity.
The entire programme of UIPM Global Laser Run City Tours (GLRCTs) and Biathle/Triathle National Tours (BTNTs) for March, April and May 2020 has been suspended to assist with the international effort to combat the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has responded to athlete queries concerning anti-doping in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by publishing a Question and Answer (Q&A) article that it developed in consultation with its Athlete Committee. This article is reproduced by UIPM with permission from WADA.
- New Modern Pentathlon qualification system to be finalised for Games in 2021
- Pentathlon World Cup season cancelled; Pentathlon World Championships postponed
- President Schormann salutes Executive Board for taking ‘collective responsibility for public health’
UIPM has welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee to postpone the Games of the XXXII Olympiad until 2021.