Tickets have gone on sale for the 2009 Modern Pentathlon World Championships, which take place at the

  The competition - the highpoint of the 2009 modern pentathlon calendar - is the first World Championships

It will also be the first time the Modern Pentathlon World Championships have been held in the UK since

on the modern pentathlon calendar in 2009 and it's particularly exciting to host them in London just

Crystal Palace has a track record of modern pentathlon firsts.  

It is the sixth time Britain has hosted the Modern Pentathlon World Championships.  

pictured), the Olympic silver medallist, was Britain’s highest finisher at the third round of the Modern Pentathlon

both started the day strongly, winning 20 of their 35 fencing contests for joint eighth and 880 modern pentathlon

That pushed her up another place to fifth going into the run/shoot – the new climax to the modern pentathlon

May 8 - The last five Olympic sports that had failed to fully comply with global anti-doping rules have now fallen into line, ensuring their presence in the Games at London in 2012.

  Gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball, handball and modern pentathlon have met World Anti-Doping

April 8 - Dame Mary Peters (picutred), the 1972 Olympic pentathlon champion, has been appointed as the

today became the first Briton to win a major event under the controversial new format adopted by modern pentathlon

who finished 10th for Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, went into the final element of today’s pentathlon

range.But Weale produced a strong final 1km run to cross the finish line 20 seconds ahead of Polivka with a pentathlon

March 23 - Malaysia is planning to set up high performance centres at two leading British universities to help them prepare for the London 2012 Olympics, starting later this year, insidethegames can exclusively reveal.

success under Ged Roddy, their sporting director.A number of sports are based there, including Modern Pentathlon

  FEBRUARY 16 - GREENWICH PARK, which is due to stage the equestrian events during the London 2016 Olympics and Paralympics, has proved a controversial choice but, after being given an exclusive tour, DAVID OWEN is impressed

In addition, as Hadaway explains, the riding and run-shoot elements of the Modern Pentathlon are expected

FEBRUARY 11 - A HANDBALL ARENA to be built for London 2012 that will become a new multi-sports facility in legacy is set to start construction this summer after it was given planning permission.

seats during the Games, hosting the handball preliminaries and quarter- finals as well as the modern pentathlon

  MIXED-GENDER events and 3-on-3 basketball are among the planned innovations for the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010, it was announced.

The programme includes mixed relays in swimming and modern pentathlon.  

  DECEMBER 5 - MODERN PENTATHLON should have been celebrating after receiving £6.4 million funding to

has hardly unleashed a riot of joy from competitors still coming to terms with the fact that modern pentathlon

Britain's Modern Pentathlon performance director, Jan Bartu, is also cautious in his welcome for the

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

£9.0 million)   Hockey £14.1 million (£9.8 million)   Judo £7.6 million (£6.4 million)   Modern Pentathlon

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

£9.0 million)   Hockey £14.1 million (£9.8 million)   Judo £7.6 million (£6.4 million)   Modern Pentathlon

  OCTOBER 31 - CHARLES VAN COMMENEE'S (pictured) recent appointment as the new head coach of UK Athletics is the latest example of British sport searching abroad for experts to help guide its efforts for London 2012, as MIKE ROWBOTTOM reports

coach for the last 16 years, and Jan Bartu, the Czech Olympic silver medallist in charge of Modern Pentathlon

    OCTOBER 15 - BIG CROWDS are expected in Central London tomorrow to see Britain's Olympic and Paralympic heroes, including cyclist Rebecca Romero (pictured), during a victory parade through the streets of the capital.  

Britain's first taekwondo medallist Sarah Stevenson and modern pentathlon silver medallist Heather Fell

officially launched a new trust in Northern Ireland named after Dame Mary Peters, the 1972 Olympic pentathlon