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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.
The capital city of Egypt, Cairo, will stage the UIPM 2021 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships from June 7-13.
The city hosted the UIPM 2017 Pentathlon World Championships and has become a regular UIPM Pentathlon World Cup venue.
- 2017 host city replaces Minsk (BLR) as venue for flagship Modern Pentathlon competition
- Egypt prepares for busy summer of UIPM Sports ahead of Olympic Games
- President Schormann praises organisers in Egypt – ‘a true pillar of our global movement’
The capital city of Egypt, Cairo, will stage the UIPM 2021 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships from June 7-13.
Two well-known Olympic pentathletes are poised to take on a key role in helping student athletes balance their sport and their education.
Heather Fell of Great Britain, silver medallist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and Philipp Waeffler, who competed for Switzerland at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games, graduated recently from the Olympic Athlete Friendly Education Centre (AFEC) Assessor Training Programme.
Brazil’s first Olympic Modern Pentathlon medallist, Yane Marques, has been chosen to represent her fellow Olympians on the Board of the Brazil Olympic Committee (COB).
Marques (BRA), who won bronze at the London 2012 Olympic Games, received 73% of the vote in a virtual election on 12 January and was duly elected President of the COB Athletes Commission.
The UIPM President, Dr Klaus Schormann, has issued a statement of hope and reassurance about the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect global sport at the beginning of 2021.
Dear colleagues and friends of the UIPM movement,
Athletes and coaches of the UIPM movement, this is your time to stand up and make your voices heard.
We are looking for 13 nominations for two important democratic institutions – the UIPM Athletes Committee and UIPM Coaches Committee. And thanks to the changes made to our Election Rules were changed in 2018, more candidates have the opportunity to express themselves.
Let’s look at the UIPM Athletes Committee first.
Laura Heredia of Spain and Ugo Fleurot of France emerged victorious in a high-quality bilateral field that gathered to contest the Trophee Christophe Ruer in Perpignan / St Cyprien (FRA) on February 13-14.
With French and Spanish athletes competing for the medals in a venue close to the border between the two countries, Heredia (ESP) fought off the challenge of silver medallist Marie Oteiza (FRA) and bronze medallist Elodie Clouvel (FRA) to claim an impressive Women’s Individual gold.
A year after the highly successful 2nd UIPM Joint Committees Meeting in Frankfurt (GER), the same three committees met online to discuss a wide range of ongoing matters relating to the UIPM Sports movement during this time of global crisis.
The joint congregation of the UIPM Athletes Committee, UIPM Coaches Committee and UIPM Technical Committee took place on February 10, 2021 via video conference.
The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to enforce profound limitations on training and competitions across most of the Modern Pentathlon world, but in some countries a degree of international collaboration has been possible.