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Shuai Luo, 23, is part of a new wave of pentathlon talent coming out of China and making an impact not just at continental but also world level.
Luo (CHN) enjoyed a breakthrough win at the 2017 Asia/Oceania Championships in Gotemba (JPN) and then won bronze at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta (INA).
The UIPM Sports community in Latvia and around the world is mourning the loss of Uldis Putnins, a two-time world junior champion, revered coach and administrator in Modern Pentathlon.
Uldis first won the world junior crown in 1974 and retained it in 1975, inspiring a love for competition that led the athlete to devote most of his life to sport and the development of new generations of pentathletes.
Fifteen years after his early involvement in UIPM Sports as a youth athlete, Pavel Ilyashenko of Kazakhstan is feeling primed for a peak performance at the Olympic Games.
The accumulation of experience is never-ending, and Ilyashenko (KAZ) not only has two Olympic Games (London 2012 and Rio 2016) and an impressive track record – world junior silver in 2011, Asian champion in 2013, bronze in the UIPM 2015 Pentathlon World Cup Final and UIPM 2018 Pentathlon World Cup Cairo – in his favour.
The NORCECA Modern Pentathlon Confederation covers North America, Central America and the Caribbean – a vast region that is home to almost 600 million people with almost limitless potential for sports development.
As Laser Run is designed as a plug-and-play concept that can be made accessible to any urban community in the world through the Global Laser Run City Tour, the possibilities for growth of UIPM Sports in the region are extensive.
Yasser Hefny has seen a lot in 16 years competing in Modern Pentathlon.
But just when he had seen it all, he became acquainted with the most inspirational athletes in the UIPM Sports movement and felt like a rookie just starting out.
Hefny (EGY) recently volunteered to take over as shooting coach to Egypt’s UIPM Para Sports team. In this interview he takes up the story, describing all the emotions he has felt since undertaking this important role.
The extraordinary life of Colonel John Russell OLY, UIPM Medal of Honor winner, has come to an end.
Col Russell, who was presented with one of the UIPM’s highest honours in February 2020, died at his home in Texas on September 30. He was 100 years, seven months and 28 days old.
Starved of global competitions for most of 2020 by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, National Modern Pentathlon Federations have been carefully managing a return to sport in recent months.
We’ve all heard the story, right?
The one about the 19th century cavalry officer whose ability to swim, ride, run, shoot and fight with a sword inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin to create the Modern Pentathlon.
Five unique disciplines combined to provide the ultimate test of ‘moral qualities as much as physical resources and skills, producing thereby the ideal, complete athlete’.
The UIPM President, Dr Klaus Schormann, has issued a message of hope to the global UIPM Sports community as the sporting world continues to struggle against the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
Dear Modern Pentathlon Family, athletes, coaches, officials, parents and supporters,
- Twenty-two youth athletes and two judges selected
- Eight countries from four continents represented
- President Schormann hails educational benefits of unique event
Twenty-four members of the global UIPM Sports community have been selected to take part in the inaugural Virtual Youth Festival (VYF).