A lottery system will be used to decide which ticketholders can attend the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as well as sessions in eight sports.

will be one of the eight sports using the lottery system, as well as baseball, football, golf, modern pentathlon

Germany’s world decathlon champion Niklas Kaul will seek to confirm his place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as he takes part in the World Athletics Challenge Combined Events two-day meeting in Ratingen in his home country, which starts tomorrow.

record-holder Verena Mayr, who won world bronze in 2019 as Verena Preiner, and Austria’s world indoor pentathlon

Cooke is among seven pentathletes elected by their peers to the newly-constituted International Modern Pentathlon

by 30-year-old Rebecca Jamieson, the first female to qualify to represent New Zealand in the modern pentathlon

South Korea's Seo Chang-wan and Kim Sehee won the gold medals in the pentathlon mixed team relay on the

final day of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Pentathlon and Laser Run Championships

@insidethegames @AroundTheRings— UIPM - World Pentathlon (@WorldPentathlon) June 14, 2021"This is the

The scheduling of the athletics programme, and the disruption to it caused by a royal appearance, did no favours to Yvette Williams at the Vancouver Commonwealth Games in 1954. 

 "Yes, I would have liked it if the pentathlon or heptathlon had been on the programme," Williams

 "There was a pentathlon organised for me in Dunedin once and I think I went quite close to the

Twelve years after he won his first International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) world title, Hungary

FrancsJeux @AroundTheRings @Tokyo2020 @Olympics @Athlete365 pic.twitter.com/ACBgsee8Yq— UIPM - World Pentathlon

Anastasiya Prokopenko regained the modern pentathlon world title in Cairo with a superb concluding laser

@Olympics @olympicchannel @insidethegames @FrancsJeux pic.twitter.com/OiySOXX35i— UIPM - World Pentathlon

This year's International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Youth World Championships in Egypt have been

The UIPM 2021 Pentathlon and Laser Run World Championships continued today with 81 athletes taking part

in qualification for the men's individual final in modern pentathlon.

pentathletes were among the qualifiers today for the final on Sunday (July 13) at the International Modern Pentathlon

points, one less than Ukraine’s Pavlo Svedeniuk, with Alexander Lifanov, representing the Russian Modern Pentathlon

The European Fencing Championships in Plovdiv have been delayed until at least the autumn, following on from the cancellation of last year's event in Minsk because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Championships in 2009 ©Getty ImagesSeveral high-profile sporting events, including International Modern Pentathlon

A race walking mixed team event is set to make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024, following confirmation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board that it will be the mixed-gender contest added to the athletics programme.

events ©Getty ImagesAdditionally, the IOC Executive Board approved the new competition format for modern pentathlon

, which is set to be based in one venue.As proposed by the International Modern Pentathlon Union, this

Lithuania made the big impact of the day in women’s qualifying at the International Modern Pentathlon

Gulyas 987, the same total that was achieved by Adelina Ibatullina, representing the Russian Modern Pentathlon

Alexander Lifanov and Maxim Kuznetsov, representing the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation (RMPF),

won a close men’s relay on the second day of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships

, suffered an attack of nerves and gave Zhang the chance to catch him and then move ahead.UIPM 2021 Pentathlon

https://t.co/DCzoyaOlYu pic.twitter.com/Tq2lGicZ6u— UIPM - World Pentathlon (@WorldPentathlon) June

Iryna Prasiantsova of Belarus won the women’s relay gold on the opening day of the International Modern Pentathlon

restrictions due to COVID-19.Gulnaz Gubaydullina and Uliana Batashova, representing the Russian Modern Pentathlon

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Britain’s strong hopes of earning medals at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships

to the red list of countries, meaning people in Britain should not travel there, from 4am tomorrow, Pentathlon

GB issued a statement saying it was "disappointed to confirm that the British modern pentathlon team

and competing are safe, following consultation with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Pentathlon

British team set to travel to Cairo, have regrettably been withdrawn from the competition," the GB Pentathlon

World Championships for those looking to achieve Olympic qualification status ahead of Tokyo - and Pentathlon