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The UIPM 2019 Pentathlon Junior World Championships continued today (July 9) with 56 athletes taking part in qualification for the Women’s Individual Final.
The 36 athletes listed below earned the right to compete in the Final, which takes place on Thursday, July 11. The competition continues on July 10 with qualification for the Men’s Individual Final.
Poland has a rich pedigree of male Olympic medallists, but only in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 did a woman enter the pantheon.
Her name was Oktawia Nowacka, and her bronze medal has given rise to a new surge of Pentathlon development in Poland. In her birthplace of Starogard Gdanksi, on June 15, this was evident when the city hosted its first Global Laser Run City Tour.
The UIPM 2019 Pentathlon Junior World Championships continued today (July 10) with 70 athletes taking part in qualification for the Men’s Individual Final.
The 36 athletes listed below earned the right to compete in the Final, which takes place on Friday, July 12. The competition continues on Thursday, July 11 with the Women’s Individual Final and concludes on Saturday, July 13 with the Mixed Relay.
Adelina Ibatullina of Russia has formed a winning habit and she continued her remarkable run of success to become Women’s Individual gold medallist at the UIPM 2019 Pentathlon Junior World Championships.
In 2017 Ibatullina (RUS) became youth world champion at Under 19 level, and today’s success confirmed her calibre as one of the most promising pentathletes in the world. Only last month she won European junior gold at the same venue.
The Kyrgyzstan Open in September 2019 will be an Olympic Pentathlon world ranking competition and UIPM has provided training and certification to a large group of judges ahead of the competition.
The competition takes place from September 26-29 and 24 judges now have a qualification under the UIPM Judges Certification Programme to support their technical supervision of the competition.
France has become the third country to test the New Tetrathlon format, to be proposed for introduction at the 2022 Youth Olympic Games.
The innovative format, which adds Fencing to the established development sport of Triathle (Shooting/Swimming/Running), was presented for the first time in Buenos Aires (ARG) in March 2019 and then in Cairo (EGY) in April.
Jean-Baptiste Mourcia won the first gold medal of the week for France and provided an unforgettable highlight of the UIPM 2019 Pentathlon Junior World Championships with a storming victory in the Men’s Individual Final.
Egypt won their second gold medal of the UIPM 2019 Pentathlon Junior World Championships and denied Russia a fifth victory at the end of a thrilling Mixed Relay.
One of Pentathlon’s leading administrators has been honoured by his national fencing federation for his inspirational achievements.
As one of the world’s select group of two-sport Olympians, Rob Stull already had a strong legacy but his induction to the US Fencing Hall of Fame is another powerful moment of recognition for what he achieved during his 20-year sporting career.
For evidence of the global popularity and powerful symbolism of Laser Run, look no further than the first Global Laser Run City Tour to take place in Afghanistan.
In Kabul on June 27, more than 300 athletes made history with a competition that included the first Mixed Relay ever to take place on Afghan soil.