Honorary President & Patron

Dr Klaus Schormann (GER)

HONORARY PRESIDENT

Dr Klaus Schormann served as UIPM President for more than 31 years, from 1993 to 2024. He previously served as UIPM Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations from 1988. From 1994 to 1996 he was President of the umbrella governing body, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon (UIPMB).

Dr Schormann studied art, political science, geography and sport – which he taught at high school for 30 years. For over 10 years he applied his knowledge to various appointments within the regional Government of Hesse – in the Ministries of Culture and Education, Traffic and Business and the Interior and Sport, among others. In the last years of his business career (2006-2023) he acted as an Adviser for International Affairs for the Government of Hesse. Since 1984 he has been a member of the “TV-34” council of Germany.

Dr Schormann has always displayed a high level of voluntary commitment to sport having been involved since 1965 in various roles for Modern Pentathlon. At the Olympic Games Munich 1972 he was Deputy Competition Manager for Modern Pentathlon, thereafter becoming a member of the Executive Board of Modern Pentathlon. Most notable was his position as President of the German Association for Modern Pentathlon, which he held from 1984-2014 and then became Honorary President.

In 2005, Dr Schormann was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Sport Science by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz-Germany and has received numerous awards and distinctions in Germany, Australia, Bulgaria, Chinese Taipei, China, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco and the USA in recognition of his services to sport. He has been given special awards by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) and the International Military Sports Council (CISM) and in 2012 received the IOC Olympic Order award from IOC President Dr Jacques Rogge in London. From 2007-2024 he was a member of the Executive Board of the German Olympic Academy.

In 2019, Dr Schormann was inaugurated into the UIPM Hall of Fame, and in 2024 was elected by the 73rd UIPM Congress to serve as UIPM Honorary President. He was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Leadership.

Dr Schormann has published numerous articles and contributions to marketing and television and political articles related to Modern Pentathlon and issues concerning the Olympic sports movement. He contributed to the study and publication “Coubertin’s Postulate on the Unity of Sport and Art and the resonance of this with Olympic Tourists in Sydney – Consequences for an Olympic application in 2012” by Prof Dr Manfred Messinger & Prof Dr Norbert Mueller.

In 1994 Dr Schormann became a Member of the IOC Commission for Culture, which was enlarged in 2001 to become the Commission for Culture and Olympic Education. In 2007 he became Chairman of the IOC Sub Commission for the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010. He continues to serve in the IOC Commission for Culture and Olympic Heritage, to which he was appointed in 2014.

Dr Schormann has been married to his wife Karin Schormann since 1969. He has a son and a daughter and two grandchildren.

HM King Constantine

PATRON (deceased)

HM King Constantine served UIPM as Patron from 1995, initially during its former guise as UIPMB (including Biathlon), until his passing in 2023.

His Majesty was a strong champion of the Olympic values, as created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of Modern Pentathlon, and as a young Crown Prince in Greece he trained in all five pentathlon disciplines.

He chose the sport of sailing and trained intensively for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, as did his sister Sofia (who later became the Queen of Spain). King Constantine won gold in the Dragon class as helmsman of ‘Nereus’, and returned home to a public welcome in Athens as Greece’s first Olympic champion since 1912.

Four years later, Constantine succeeded his father Paul I as King of Greece and his active sporting career ended, but he continued to have an impact on the Olympic movement. From his uncle, Prince George William of Hanover, he inherited the Presidency of the International Olympic Academy in Olympia.

King Constantine was a Member of the International Olympic Committee from 1963 to 1974, when he became an Honorary Member. He also served as Honorary President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, the International Olympic Academy and World Sailing.