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The qualification period for Modern Pentathlon at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games closed with the conclusion of the Men’s Individual Final at the UIPM 2021 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships in Cairo (EGY) on June 13.
A total of 51 automatic quota places have been earned by athletes hoping to win selection by their National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to compete at Tokyo 2020 – 26 for the Women’s Individual event and 25 for the Men’s Individual event.
- All six UIPM continents represented on both committees
- Successful candidates to serve from 2022 to 2024
- Election winners congratulated as tributes paid to outgoing Aya Medany OLY
Six coaches and seven athletes from across six continents have been elected by their peers to represent them on the UIPM Coaches Committee and UIPM Athletes Committee.
For the second year in succession, pentathletes from all member federations of UIPM have been invited to apply for scholarships with the World Academy of Sports (WAoS).
The Online Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert), delivered by the University of London (GBR), can be completed at the student’s own pace in up to five years.
- Five Olympic medallists and 11 world champions set for ultimate challenge
- Eight countries from four continents achieve maximum athlete quota
- President Schormann backs pentathletes to deliver ‘unforgettable competition’
The 72 athletes who will compete in Modern Pentathlon at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been named by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM).
The Olympic Games are now firmly in our thoughts but I want to pay tribute to all the UIPM delegates, officials, local organisers and the UIPM staff team who made it possible for our wonderful athletes to fulfil their dreams of competing in Tokyo.
Trust me, it is no small achievement to have staged five Olympic qualification competitions in 2021 and, not only that, to have staged successful events!
The revival of the Global Laser Run City Tour, UIPM’s most dynamic development mechanism, continued in June 2021 with events taking place in four countries.
Russia continued to build on the progress made across Eastern Europe in May, after a long shutdown due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, with two competitions. Portugal, Italy and Venezuela also joined the party.
The UIPM Executive Board (EB) has agreed to postpone the UIPM Masters Committee elections to 2022 so that the process can take place during the next UIPM Masters World Championships.
In 2020, after the postponement and cancellation of almost all UIPM activities, the EB decided to extend the term of all elected bodies so that elections could take place during competitions in 2021 or the UIPM 2021 Congress, which is scheduled for November.
06.06.-15.06.2021: Cairo, EGY
Meeting with Sports Minister
On the first day of his visit to the UIPM 2021 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships, UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann met Dr Ashraf Sobhy, Egyptian Minister for Youth & Sports, to discuss the combined competition as well as the UIPM Junior and Youth World Championships to be held in Alexandria later in 2021.
- Paris 2024 journey begins for world’s leading under-21 pentathletes
- Hundreds of athletes from 27 nations mark return of under-age competition
- President Schormann salutes host nation Egypt as ‘a dependable pillar of our movement’
The long wait is over. Two years since UIPM last staged a global gathering of under-age pentathletes, the future stars of Modern Pentathlon are back together and ready to compete for the coveted title of junior world champion.
Two weeks after becoming European junior champions, Esther Donda Fernandez and Annika Schneider of Germany won a thrilling Women’s Relay to secure the first UIPM world title for under-age athletes in two years.
The opening day of the UIPM 2021 Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Alexandria (EGY) featured a captivating race with the top four teams separated by less than 40sec in the final reckoning.