UIPM statement: 47th ASOIF General Assembly

UIPM would like to clarify some outcomes from the 47th ASOIF General Assembly with the following statement:

Modern Pentathlon’s future received a significant boost from a restructuring decision announced at the 47th General Assembly of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) in Lausanne (SUI) on May 31.

The decision relates to the International Olympic Committee revenue-sharing mechanism that determines the distribution of Olympic Games profits to be reinvested in the participating sports. UIPM has been moved from Category 5 of this structure into Category 4, which is the biggest group of IFs.

This is another important step towards securing Modern Pentathlon’s future within the Olympic Movement, which is the current main priority of UIPM, as evidenced by the integration of Obstacle – a change made in response to a clear IOC directive to modernise the sport to align more closely with the IOC Olympic Agenda 2020+5.

UIPM would also like to clarify that there has been no change to the decision-making process in relation to the sporting programme of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28).

Despite media speculation to the contrary, there has been no change to Modern Pentathlon’s status in this process, as stated at the outset by IOC President Dr Thomas Bach as being ‘different’ to the two sports omitted from the provisional LA28 programme because of governance issues.

UIPM continues to work closely with the IOC Sport Department to provide information supporting the decision-making process and ultimately to satisfy the IOC Programme Commission and Executive Board that the new Modern Pentathlon meets the criteria set out for inclusion in LA28.

UIPM remains highly confident in the outcome of the 140th IOC Session in Mumbai (IND) in October 2023 and continues to work tirelessly to preserve Modern Pentathlon’s Olympic status.