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CAIRO - A new Olympic season for the world's leading pentathletes got under way today with qualifying for the Women's Individual Final at the UIPM 2016 World Cup #1.
The competition in Cairo runs from February 24-28 and with more than 200 athletes taking part, the race has begun to prove form and fitness ahead of Rio 2016 - and, for many, to qualify for the Games.
Qualifying points will be accrued when the women return on Friday for their final, and competition will be fierce as they jostle for the right to top the podium for the first time in 2016.
The competition in Cairo runs from February 24-28 and with more than 200 athletes taking part, the race has begun to prove form and fitness ahead of Rio 2016 - and, for many, to qualify for the Games.
CAIRO - Lena Schoneborn (GER) has set the standard at the opening event of the elite Modern Pentathlon season by winning Women’s Individual gold at UIPM World Cup 1. Schoneborn, the reigning World Champion, led a German 1-2 as she took the title ahead of compatriot Annika Schleu. Elodie Clouvel (FRA) completed an all-European podium as she finished 3rd, with Zsofia Foldhazi (HUN) 4th, Margaux Isaksen (USA) 5th and Natsumi Tomonaga (JPN) 6th. Lena Schoneborn (GER) said after receiving her gold medal: “I am relieved that I managed through the day because it did not start well.
CAIRO - A stunning home victory by Amro El Geziry (EGY) provided a dream come true for organisers and spectators at the first stage of the 2016 UIPM World Cup Series.
Cairo has become one of Modern Pentathlon’s most important venues and El Geziry, World No.5, one of the sport’s most consistent performers. His victory in the Men’s Individual Final met with roars of approval from a large and supportive crowd in the Egyptian capital.
CAIRO - Italy claimed the first Mixed Relay gold medal of the 2016 UIPM World Cup series after an outstanding performance by Lavinia Bonessio and Auro Franceschini.
The Italians were in front with an unassailable lead for much of the day, and Mexico (Tamara Vega & Jorge Camacho) battled all the way to the line to secure silver ahead of bronze medallists Kazakhstan (Elena Potapenko & Vladislav Sukharev).
With the Olympic Games now only five months away, the world’s best Pentathletes are heading en masse to Brazil for the official Rio 2016 Modern Pentathlon Test Event (March 10-14), which doubles as the second stage of the UIPM 2016 World Cup.
The world's leading women Pentathletes got a flavour of what awaits them at Rio 2016 today during qualifying for the second stage of the 2016 UIPM World Cup series.
The event doubles as an official Olympic Test Event with World Cup points up for grabs in the same venues that will be used when the Olympic Games comes to Rio this summer.
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games venues for Modern Pentathlon have now been tested by the majority of the world's leading pentathletes after the Men's Individual Qualifying took place at World Cup #2 in Rio de Janeiro today.
A day after their female counterparts christened the venues at Deodoro Park, in the wake of an official inauguration, the leading men competed for places in the final of the second event of the 2016 UIPM World Cup season, which doubles as an official Olympic Test Event.
Claudia Cesarini conquered a tropical downpour and dozens of higher-ranked pentathletes to secure Women's Individual gold in the second instalment of the UIPM 2016 World Cup series.
Woongtae Jun of Korea continued his impressive rise through the elite Modern Pentathlon ranks by securing Men's Individual gold at the second stage of the 2016 UIPM World Cup. At 20, Jun (ranked 7th) is the youngest man in the top 10 of the senior World Rankings and his success at this official Olympic Test Event closely followed his victory in the season-ending 2015 Champion of Champions in Doha, Qatar.