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Seven days of pulsating action in Alexandria culminated in Russia and Hungary claiming the final two gold medals of the UIPM 2021 Youth World Championships (U19 and U17) with the future of the sport looking brighter than ever.
The Hiperionas Modern Pentathlon Club in Kaunas has celebrated a hugely successful staging of Lithuania’s first ever Modern Pentathlon Day.
Young pentathletes of the club tested themselves as organizers of the event and gained extremely valuable experience at the festival held in Kalniečiai Park. Everyone was given the chance to try their hand at aall five sports of Modern Pentathlon — fencing, swimming (simulated with special exercises), riding, running and shooting — filling in an event results card after completing each station.
Sixty youth pentathletes and athlete entourages from 10 countries completed the IOC Athlete365 Career+ Power Up Workshops during the recent UIPM 2021 Youth World Championships in Alexandria, Egypt.
By Dr. h.c. Klaus Schormann
A whole lot, it seems, can happen in 50 days. Rewind the clock back by 50 days and we were gathered at Tokyo Stadium waiting in anticipation to see the destination of the first Modern Pentathlon medals of the 2020 Olympics be decided.
Such has been the journey of athletic excellence, of resilience, progress and positivity that our sport itself has been on in the intervening time that it surely seems like a whole lot more than 50 days have passed.
MONACO: September 28, 2021 – The UIPM is pleased to confirm the eligibility of over 50 nominees ahead of the upcoming 71st UIPM Congress.
Fully 50 nominated candidates have been deemed eligible by the UIPM Electoral Committee ahead of the 2021 UIPM Congress, which will be taking place online on November 27th-28th.
Social inclusion through the prism of Pentathlon was the aim of a major project called “Knights of Five Qualities” which took place in the Nizhniy Novgorod region (RUS) over the past twelve months, concluding in September 2021.
The project was initiated by Dmitry Svatkovsky OLY, Russia’s Olympic Champion from the Sydney Games in 2000 and was organized by the Regional Modern Pentathlon Federation of Nizhniy Novgorod.
The project has been organized in five stages.
UIPM has invited young athletes from across the world to grasp the opportunity to get involved in the second Virtual Youth Festival.
After the successful first VYF, broadcast from Bangkok (THA) to a global audience, Saudi Arabia will host the 2021 event with the finals, awards and closing ceremonies taking place online from November 20-27.
The first half of 2021 saw the resumption of the Global Laser Run City Tour in New Zealand and Egypt, with 15 events organised across four continents.
The Olympic Games took prominence during the northern-hemisphere summer but the GLRCT has bounced back with a bang since then, with eight new cities in Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, France and Russia enjoying their first experience of the urban sports phenomenon.
The years 2028 and 2032 might sound far off but the Olympic Games that will take place, respectively, in Los Angeles and Brisbane were front of mind when over 100 athletes gathered in Spala, Poland last month.
The Olympic Hope competition at Spala’s Olympic Training Centre in late October saw 108 competitors representing nine different countries at Under 19 and Under 17 levels.
Gold medals were shared by all four competing nations at the Open Moldavian Masters Championships which took took place in the capital Chişinău October 22-23.
With participating athletes from the host nation of Moldova as well as Russia, Ukraine and Spain the competition saw seven events held across Pentathlon and Tetrathlon categories.