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UIPM Executive Board extends Shiny Fang's mandate as Secretary General

  • Modern Pentathlon

The Executive Board (EB) of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (International Modern Pentathlon

Board made the unanimous decision during a two-day meeting in Zhengzhou, China, during the UIPM 2024 Pentathlon

Her extended mandate includes the Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Olympic cycle, where a transformed Modern Pentathlon



Torch Relay Stage 10: Flame heats up 'Little Tuscany'

  • Olympics

Now 10 days in the running across France’s roads, the Olympic Torch Relay passed through the Gers department, a rugby hotbed that celebrated the participation of 7-a-side player Paulin Riva, national star Anthony Jelonch and pioneer Odette Desprats, who lit the Cauldron at the Mouzon sports complex.

 Auch native JoĂ«l Bouzou, a former Olympic bronze medallist athlete in the team modern pentathlon


Torch Relay Stage 7: Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Paris 2024

The Olympic Torch Relay has been travelling the roads of France for a week now, and on Wednesday the Pyrénées-Orientales département took centre stage. The Catalans, who have kept the tradition of the Canigó Flame alive since time immemorial, waited with bated breath for the arrival of the Olympic torch in their region.

 Stage 7 was a wonderful celebration of sport, with the French Pentathlon Federation organising

ancient sports through his organisation Acta, and LĂ©on Vandenboore, an avid practitioner of the modern pentathlon


Great Britain's Jess Varley wins World Cup silver

  • Modern Pentathlon

Great Britain's Jess Varley got herself back on the podium after securing a silver medal in the Pentathlon

swimming performances propelled her up the leaderboard.Varley got her hands on a silver medal at the Pentathlon

seconds behind.Varley expressed her aspiration to have secured sufficient performance to qualify for the Pentathlon

I couldn’t have done any more today and I'm very happy.”Emma Whitaker, a teammate of Varley from Pentathlon


Kerenza Bryson, Seo Chang-wan claim UIPM Pentathlon World Cup golds in Ankara

  • Modern Pentathlon

Britain’s Kerenza Bryson built on her best-ever fencing performance to clinch the second UIPM World Cup win of her career in the Turkish capital with Seo Chang-wan securing men's gold.

#athlete #swim #run #fence #ride #competition #olympic #sport pic.twitter.com/RCWh6RianT— Pentathlon

it will keep going in the right direction for the Games.”Bryson will form part of Team GB's modern pentathlon

World Cup Ankara 🙌Full review 🔗 https://t.co/54FftxdFU6 pic.twitter.com/0suS92iTGA— UIPM - World Pentathlon


Klaus Schormann withdraws from re-election as UIPM President

  • Modern Pentathlon

Klaus Schormann has announced his decision not to seek re-election at the UIPM 2024 Congress, marking the end of an era of pioneering innovation and progressive modernisation.

Schormann has announced his intention not to seek re-election as President of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon

eightht term as President by the end of this year, thus concluding his leadership of the worldwide Modern Pentathlon

era," concluded Schormann.At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Schormann will oversee his eighth Olympic Pentathlon

Having served as a senior administrator since 1972, Schormann has no plans to retire from the Modern Pentathlon

He saved the Modern Pentathlon from many difficulties".Yasser Hefny, Chairman of the UIPM Athletes' Committee


"Bright future" for Modern Pentathlon TV product

  • Modern Pentathlon

International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Secretary-General Shiny Fang made an interesting statement

in which analysed the current situation of modern pentathlon.

Shiny FangI said: "I am pleased to update you on some key developments in the development of our Modern Pentathlon

This is inevitable given the number of changes that have taken place in the Olympic Modern Pentathlon

In 2014, an OBS team visited our Pentathlon World Cup in Rome when we were testing the new Fencing Bonus

 After Rio 2016, where for the first time the Pentathlon had four disciplines (only swimming was

 Athletes competing in the men's individual Modern Pentathlon at Tokyo 2020.


The sun god of Versailles gets a new golden skin for Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The ChĂąteau de Versailles will host the equestrian competitions, despite the fact that the project to build the 5.3km track is still underway, just four months before Paris 2024. Last Friday, the statue of the Fountain of Apollo was lowered into the water for the first time.

A cross-country course is being built there to host the equestrian competitions and the pentathlon.

splendour of the enclosure.The venue could accommodate more than 250 horses, 200 riders and the modern pentathlon


IOC provisionally lifts suspension of Guatemala NOC

  • Olympics

After two years of not being able to compete under the Guatemalan flag in the Olympic cycle, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to provisionally lift the sanction imposed on the country's Olympic Committee. Guatemalan athletes will now be able to parade and participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with their flag and official uniform.

Andres Feraåndez (Modern Pentathlon).5.⁠ ⁠Jean Pierre Brol (Shooting).6.⁠ ⁠


UAE NOC hosts the International Modern Pentathlon Union in Dubai

  • Olympics

Exploring cooperation and activating partnerships to raise the level of athletes were some of the points of interest at this meeting held at the headquarters of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) National Olympic Committee (NOC). Participants reviewed recent events and the current landscape of the discipline. 72 athletes are expected ro participate in Paris 2024.

General of the National Olympic Committee, and Klaus Schormann, President of the International Modern Pentathlon

cooperation and activating partnerships in order to raise the level of athletes in the sport of Modern Pentathlon

The modern pentathlon will be contested by 72 athletes (36 women and 36 men), the same number as in Tokyo

Some of these have been successfully hosted by the UAE through the Modern Pentathlon Federation.

These include the 2022 Modern Pentathlon World Championships in shooting and running, and the Global


Coleman beats Lyles to claim second World Indoor 60m gold

  • Athletics

In the pentathlon, Spain's MarĂ­a Vicente broke her Achilles tendon while leading the the pentathlon.

C7mFryLflB— Teledeporte (@teledeporte) March 1, 2024One of the saddest images of the day came from the pentathlon


Kate French to defend modern pentathlon title at Paris 2024 after 18 months out

  • Modern Pentathlon

Reigning Olympic champion Kate French is aiming to defend her modern pentathlon crown in Paris this summer

The British from Meopham, 32, trains with Pentathlon GB at the University of Bath and has only competed

GETTY IMAGES"I wasn't sure what I wanted to do after the pentathlon or if I should go to Paris, and there

was everything that was going on with the pentathlon as a sport too.

I have also done some corporate events and travelled with the younger Pentathlon GB athletes to the U17

It's a year of training, the last year of pentathlon as we currently know it, and I want to give it my


Former IBU leader Besseberg charged with aggravated corruption

  • Winter Sports

The former head of the International Biathlon Union (IBU), Anders Besseberg, is charged with 'aggravated corruption' for allegedly covering up Russian doping by using sexual favours with prostitutes and hunting expeditions as 'currency'.

and bribes.Besseberg, who led the IBU from its inception on 2 July 1993, after it split from Modern Pentathlon


Olympic year kicks off with key qualifiers

  • Olympics

January 2024 begins with a flurry of sporting activity in the run-up to Paris 2024. The thirty-third Olympic Games of the modern era, with more than 10,000 athletes, will begin in the Paris region on 26 July.

place in January, there will be plenty of places to go.Britain's Joseph Choong, competing in the modern pentathlon

judo, track cycling, BMX racing, weightlifting, shooting, beach volleyball, fencing, badminton, modern pentathlon