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The UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships began in Székesfehérvár (HUN) today with teenage sensation Farida Khalil of Egypt breaking yet another world record.
There were a total of 78 athletes split into three groups attempting to grab one of Friday’s 36 semi-final places.
- Khalil (EGY) reunited with 2024 top two Sazonova and Skudnyakova (AIN)
- Mohamed and Abouamer (EGY) face up to Popov (UKR)
- YouTube coverage opens up live Pentathlon to the world
All six individual medallists from 2024 reconvene for what is sure to be a hotly-contested UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships over the next five days.
Day two of the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Székesfehérvár (HUN) saw two world records set in the Men’s Qualification.
With an increase of 18 competitors from last year’s event, 105 athletes across three qualification groups competed for one of Friday’s 36 Semi-final slots.
New records, narrow misses and last-minute winners made it an eventful day in the women’s semi-finals of the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Szekesfehervar (HUN).
Unlike last year’s event which went straight from Qualifications to the Final, the 36 semi-finalists were made to battle for the all-important top 18 positions in each of two groups.
Reigning champion Moutaz Mohamed of Egypt will be the man to beat in the Men’s Final after qualifying comfortably from the first of two intriguing Semi-finals at the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Szekesfehervar (HUN).
Farida Khalil of Egypt added another trophy to her growing collection, becoming junior world champion for the first time with a blistering world record in Szekesfehervar (HUN).
The 14-year-old is having a dream breakthrough season having won two golds and a silver on the Pentathlon World Cup circuit, and now asserting herself as the best athlete at Under 22 level – and by quite some distance.
Moutaz Mohamed of Egypt came from behind to earn a second consecutive gold medal after a dramatic Men’s Final brought the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Szekesfehervar (HUN) to a close.
Mohamed (EGY) set a new Men’s Junior world record of 1,571, extending his previous best of 1,544 – even though he did not finish highly in Fencing or Obstacle. Gold was yet another accolade for a 20-year-old who recently won his first Pentathlon World Cup title – also in Hungary.
- Teen queen Khalil (EGY) breaks new ground with first junior world title
- Comeback king Mohamed (EGY) goes back-to-back
- Medals for Hlavackova (CZE), Sych (UKR), Ismail (EGY) and Tamas (HUN)
In Hungary’s ‘city of kings’, a new regal order in Pentathlon continued to emerge with Egypt’s dynamic duo Farida Khalil and Moutaz Mohamed living up to their status as favourites on Finals day at the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon Junior World Championships.
Sam Curry, newly elected Chair of the UIPM Athletes Committee, led a UIPM delegation to the Olympic Movement’s flagship event for athlete representation by taking part in the 12th International Athletes’ Forum (IAF).
The IAF, hosted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne (SUI), was held from June 11-12 and united more than 400 athlete representatives from around the world.