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Argentina was not represented in Modern Pentathlon at any of the Olympic Games between 1964 and 2012.
Four years ago in Rio (BRA), husband and wife Emanuel Zapata and Iryna Khokhlova brought the anomaly to an end and now, in Tokyo (JPN) in 2021, Argentina will again be represented. Sergio Villamayor (ARG) secured a qualification place in 2019 when he won men’s individual bronze at the Pan American Games in Lima (PER).
The unexpected disruptions of 2020 may have brought sport to a standstill for much of the year, but Laser Run has been a spectacular catalyst for the global growth of the UIPM Sports movement. So it was inevitable that when COVID-19 Coronavirus restrictions began to ease in some countries, the popular mass-participation sport was the first to resume.
What a year it has been. So many highs and lows, so many challenges, so many uncertainties.
The only certainty, in fact, was the commitment demonstrated by our global community to keeping our sporting movement alive. And not just keeping the sport alive but making it stronger for tomorrow.
In 2021, we all hope to experience some normality again, but what if normal becomes something new?
07.12.2020: IOC Executive Board
The UIPM President, Dr Klaus Schormann, had various telephone and video meetings with members of the UIPM Family on the day the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided the final programme for the Olympic Summer Games Paris 2024.
Tributes have been paid to one of European Modern Pentathlon’s most admired administrators, Valter Magini, after his death at the age of 73.
The popular former President of the International Modern Pentathlon Federation (FIPM) died in Italy on January 7 after contracting the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
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Executive Board votes for new dates due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
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Under 21 and combined U19/U17 competitions rescheduled for July 2021
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UIPM expresses full confidence in local organisers in Alexandria (EGY)
Issued jointly with the Egyptian Modern Pentathlon Federation and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
Three-time Olympian and leading athlete ambassador Aya Medany OLY has begun a new career in politics after being appointed as a Member of the Egyptian Parliament.
The appointment by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is the latest accolade for Medany (EGY), who is Chair of the UIPM Athletes Committee and sits on two Commissions within the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
- Executive Board decides competition cannot take place in 2021 due to instability in host nation
- Local organisers in Belarus praised as UIPM gives commitment around future hosting
- Alternative venues under discussion for UIPM’s flagship competition in June 2021
The Executive Board (EB) of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) has voted to postpone the UIPM Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships in Minsk, Belarus scheduled to take place in June 2021.
Athletes deal with uncertainty in different ways. Marina Carrier hit the ocean.
Negotiating the waves of the Tasman Sea was a calming distraction for the pentathlete during the enforced lockdown of 2020, not least because she was recovering from a stress fracture to her thigh. Now she feels fit and ready to take the air and travel to Tokyo for the rescheduled Olympic Games.
One of the breakthrough pentathletes of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle, Martin Vlach of Czech Republic has a physical and mental strength that promises to take him far.
After a top-10 finish at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (CHN), the teenager continued to progress well at youth level and became UIPM Biathle Under 19 world champion in Lisbon (POR) in 2016, just a few weeks after watching the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on TV.