Search results for:
A proposed qualification system for Modern Pentathlon at the 4th Youth Olympic Games in Dakar (SEN) in 2022 has been submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after being approved by the UIPM Executive Board.
The Modern Pentathlon qualification system was reconfigured after the IOC confirmed in late 2019 that the athlete quota would rise from 48 to 64 for the first YOG to take place in Africa.
Tributes have been paid to the President of the European Olympic Committees (EOC), Janez Kocijancic, who died on June 1, 2020 after a short illness. He was 78.
Mr Kocijancic, a prominent politician in Slovenia, became the first President of the Slovenian Olympic Committee in 1991 and rose to prominence within the EOC, taking over the Presidency in 2016.
Aged 21, Elena Micheli of Italy has the world at her feet.
Her rise through the ranks of Modern Pentathlon has been textbook. Born into a sporty family, she has grown up in the sport alongside her brothers Roberto (23) and Giorgio (18) and benefited from military experience.
Micheli (ITA) – tall and athletic with a mature temperament – started competing in 2013 and became European Youth B champion in 2015 in Caldas da Rainha (POR).
The UIPM President, Dr Klaus Schormann, has sent a message of reassurance to the UIPM Masters community after the cancellation of the UIPM 2020 Masters World Championships.
The UIPM Executive Board agreed to a request from the Hungarian Modern Pentathlon Association (HMPA) to cancel the biennial championships, due to be held in Gyor (HUN) from September 17-20, because of the ongoing global travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.
UIPM launched the #LaserHomeRun competition in May 2020, creating the world’s first virtual laser shooting event and allowing hundreds of athletes around the world to connect and have fun together online.
Among our ‘living-room champions’ was Alexandre Dallenbach of Switzerland, a senior pentathlete living on the island of La Reunion (FRA). He recently published an article in local newspaper Le Quotidien de la Reunion, in which he wrote about his experience in #LaserHomeRun.
The UIPM Sports movement in Germany is in mourning after one of Modern Pentathlon’s most admired coaches, Laszlo Sarosy, died on June 10 at the age of 79.
The Hungarian native spent more than 30 years coaching athletes to global success from the State Performance Centre for Fencing and Modern Pentathlon in Heidenheim, Baden-Wurttemberg.
Poland will host the UIPM 2022 Junior World Championships as part of an agreement to postpone this year’s competition.
The UIPM 2020 Junior World Championships – Modern Pentathlon’s flagship under-age competition – was scheduled to take place in Drzonkow (POL) from September 20-26.
In the latter years of her career she was a dominant figure, a mature and uncompromising athlete, a born winner who had straddled the sport of Modern Pentathlon for a decade.
Remembering Lena Schoeneborn at her peak, as the athlete who won eight UIPM Pentathlon World Cups including two World Cup Finals, as a world and European champion whose medal collection would be almost too heavy to take on a plane as hand luggage, it is easy to forget that her crowning glory came early in her career.
Charles Fernandez of Guatemala is the kind of athlete who always looks right at home on the top of the podium.
The 24-year-old has a strong track record of winning individual gold medals that stretches right back to the NORCEA Junior Championships in Santo Domingo (DOM), when he was 17. Two years later he sprang a real surprise by winning the Modern Pentathlon at the Pan American Games in Toronto (CAN).
The Modern Pentathlon community in Russia is celebrating after a state-of-the-art sports complex opened in the capital city of Moscow.
Equipped with a swimming pool, fencing hall, shooting range, track-and-field stadium and riding arena with obstacles, the prestigious Severny academy will offer world-class training facilities to pentathletes of all age groups.
The academy is residential, enabling students to stay for long periods and combine their training with educational commitments.