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Nakonechnyi pulls off shock win at Modern Pentathlon World Cup

  • Modern Pentathlon

running and shooting event to secure a surprise men's individual victory at the International Modern Pentathlon

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesMarch 2015: Olympic champion Asadauskaite reigns supreme at Modern Pentathlon

World Cup February 2015: Russia claim mixed relay spoils to end modern pentathlon World CupFebruary

2015: Cooke doubles Britain's Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold medal tally in SarasotaFebruary 2015:

 Briton Murray secures first Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold seasonFebruary 2015: Qatar to host UIPM


Olympic champion Asadauskaite reigns supreme at Modern Pentathlon World Cup

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Liam MorganLithuania's Olympic champion Laura Asadauskaite came from behind to secure a superb victory to take gold at the International Modern Penathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup in Cairo.

[email protected] storiesFebruary 2015: Russia claim mixed relay spoils to end modern pentathlon

World CupFebruary 2015: Cooke doubles Britain's Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold medal tally in SarasotaFebruary

2015: Briton Murray secures first Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold seasonFebruary 2015: Qatar to host

UIPM Champion of Champions event until 2017December 2014: Modern pentathlon approves fencing bonus round


German supermarket chain partner with British Olympic Association

  • EOC

By Nick ButlerGerman retail giants Aldi will be the first Official Supermarket Partner of the British Olympic Association (BOA) on the road to Rio 2016, it has been announced.

Headquarters by Coe and leading British athletes, including BMX cyclist Liam Phillips and London 2012 modern pentathlon


Mayor helps launch London's bid to become "most physically active in the world"

  • London 2012

By Daniel Etchells at the Westminster Boating Base in LondonLondon Mayor Boris Johnson was on hand here to help launch London Sport, which aims to inspire one million inhabitants in the English capital to be more active by 2020 and ensure the city becomes the most physically active in the world.

people of all ages and abilities to find an activity that inspires them - from parkour to pilates to pentathlon



Torneus earns European Indoor long jump title in Prague after 2013 torments in Gothenburg

  • Athletics

By Mike RowbottomMichel Torneus, denied the European Athletics Indoor title on the home ground of Gothenburg in 2013, secured gold two years at the O2 Arena in Prague with another national record of 8.30 metres.

Johnson-Thompson took her first major international title as she finished with exactly 5,000 points in the pentathlon

Olympic champion Natalya Dobrynska.Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson talks to television after her pentathlon


Lavillenie among major stars poised for Prague European Indoor Championships

  • Athletics

By Mike RowbottomFrance's world pole vault record holder Renaud Lavillenie is among major names taking part in the European Athletics Indoor Championships starting tomorrow in Prague, with outgoing European Athletics President Hansjörg Wirz predicting it will be "the best ever".

Athletics Indoor Championships ©Getty ImagesThere are further high hopes for Britain in the women's pentathlon


Swimmers, athlete and table tennis player among inaugural INAS Awards nominees

  • Paralympics

By Nick ButlerFinal nominations have been revealed today for winners of the inaugural International Federation for sport for athletes with an intellectual disability (INAS) Awards ahead of a ceremony in April.

incredible 163 international medals in a 14 year career and is world record holder in the heptathlon, indoor pentathlon


Russia claim mixed relay spoils to end modern pentathlon World Cup

  • Modern Pentathlon

relay final after taking advantage of an Egyptian error on the final day of the International Modern Pentathlon

story at  [email protected] storiesFebruary 2015: Cooke doubles Britain's Modern Pentathlon

World Cup gold medal tally in SarasotaFebruary 2015: Briton Murray secures first Modern Pentathlon World

seasonFebruary 2015: Qatar to host UIPM Champion of Champions event until 2017December 2014: Modern pentathlon

approves fencing bonus round from 2015November 2014: Pentathlon GB establish series of academies to


Cooke doubles Britain's Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold medal tally in Sarasota

  • Modern Pentathlon

PavittGreat Britain have earned their second gold medal in as many days at the International Modern Pentathlon

this [email protected] storiesFebruary 2015: Briton Murray secures first Modern Pentathlon

seasonFebruary 2015: Qatar to host UIPM Champion of Champions event until 2017December 2014: Modern pentathlon

approves fencing bonus round from 2015November 2014: Pentathlon GB establish series of academies to

further growth of sport in the UKSeptember 2014: Pentathlon GB appoint former British Skeleton performance


Briton Murray secures first Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold of season

  • Modern Pentathlon

PavittBritain's Samantha Murray earned the women's individual title at the first International Modern Pentathlon

The thing with pentathlon is that you should be really happy when you make the podium because with five

into the bronze medal position in the final standings.Sarasota-Bradenton will host the men's Modern Pentathlon

approves fencing bonus round from 2015 November 2014: Pentathlon GB establish series of academies to

further growth of sport in the UKSeptember 2014: Pentathlon GB appoint former British Skeleton performance

director as chief executiveSeptember 2014: Murray wins modern pentathlon world title as China take team


Qatar to host UIPM Champion of Champions event until 2017

  • Modern Pentathlon

named as the host nation of the next three editions of the annual International Federation of Modern Pentathlon

Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) secretary general Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the Olympic Movement, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and

of other tournaments in the years leading up to it.Sheikh Saoud said it is an honour to add modern pentathlon

The 2013 event was the first modern pentathlon event ever to be hosted in Doha and it was a huge success

on this success and it will be an honour to work closely with the International Federation of Modern Pentathlon




Celebrating a century of the Olympic Movement in Lausanne

  • The Big Read

It has never staged the Olympic Games, but Lausanne in Switzerland is about to celebrate a century as the "Olympic Capital." Even the city railway station is adorned with the five Olympic rings.It was in 1915 that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) first established their headquarters on the shores of  Lake Geneva -known locally as Lake Leman - for the first time.Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin was IOC President at the time. He had been planning the move to the Swiss city since 1907.

for the decision to disqualify the great American athlete Jim Thorpe, the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon