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As we approach the 500-day countdown to the next Olympic Games, the Paris 2024 Organising Committee has revealed the official pictograms.
The concept of Olympic pictograms was created by the organisers of Tokyo 1964 and has become a popular design feature, adding unique characteristics to each Games. Paris 2024 created a ‘coat of arms’ style pictogram for each sport on the programme, including Modern Pentathlon.
Sri Lanka has been something of a hotbed for UIPM sports in recent years with both the Global Laser Run City Tour and the Biathle/Triathle National Tour making stops in the country.
Now a new generation of coaches stands ready to help mould and inspire the growing pool of talent in the South Asian country after a successful UIPM Coaches Certification Programme (CCP) course in Colombo’s Torrington Ground.
A landmark 2023 for development in Africa began with a productive week in Uganda as a wave of new Modern Pentathlon coaches took their first steps on the ladder.
Sixteen coaches undertook Level 1 of the UIPM Coaches Certification Programme (CCP) in the capital Kampala over five days from January 31 to February 4. The eager students learned under the expert tutelage of Yasser Hefny OLY, Chair of the UIPM Athletes Committee, who represented Egypt at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The growth of Laser Run, UIPM’s most popular and accessible development sport, has embraced another new territory after the Modern Pentathlon Association of Mongolia (MPAM) held its first Laser Run National Championships
The event was held on January 21 indoors at the Steppe Arena in Ulaanbaatar, organised by MPAM in collaboration with the Mongolian Sports Corporation.
- Obstacle Laser Run to be introduced for Youth and University athletes from 2024
- Commitments made to delivery of successful Riding event at Paris 2024 Olympics
- Push for more gender equality across coach and judge certification courses
World No.1 Michelle Gulyas of Hungary confirmed her class yet again by repeating her 2021 triumph at the Peridot Hungarian Indoor Championships in Budapest (HUN).
And there was a double celebration for the host nation in the annual season-opener as Andras Gall (HUN) won gold in the men’s event.
A little-known fact about the Winter Pentathlon is that it once took place as a demonstration sport in the Winter Olympic Games, in St Moritz (FRA) in 1948, where Gustav Lindh (SWE) emerged as champion.
The sport never made it to the official Olympic programme, but it remains a popular annual staple of the UIPM Masters calendar thanks to the committed organisers of the Winter Pentathlon in Davos (SUI).
09.01.2023: Monaco, MON
UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann and his wife Karin attended a reception to mark the 50-year anniversary of the International German Club of Monaco (CAI). Both Dr and Mrs Schormann are Honorary Members of CAI.
The reception was held at the Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, hosted by Karl Varnis, Honorary President and Founder of the CAI, under the patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, UIPM’s Honorary President.
At the end of a challenging 18 months since the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, when UIPM was in a constant state of accelerated evolution, we finally had the chance to breathe at the start of 2023.
It was a time to reboot and reassess our roles and responsibilities, as the governing body of a sports movement with a great history behind it and a great future to look forward to.
As head of the UIPM Administration, this is how I want our organisation to fulfil its commitment to lead and serve the global UIPM community in the name of continuous improvement.
- Gulyas (HUN) and Micheli (ITA) resume rivalry as Clouvel (FRA) lurks
- Brothers Elgendy (EGY) face off against array of European talent
- ‘The road to Paris starts here,’ says President Schormann
More than 150 pentathletes have assembled on the banks of the River Nile to embark on a journey that will take many of them north to Ankara (TUR), with a final destination of Paris (FRA).