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A year after the highly successful 2nd UIPM Joint Committees Meeting in Frankfurt (GER), the same three committees met online to discuss a wide range of ongoing matters relating to the UIPM Sports movement during this time of global crisis.
The joint congregation of the UIPM Athletes Committee, UIPM Coaches Committee and UIPM Technical Committee took place on February 10, 2021 via video conference.
The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to enforce profound limitations on training and competitions across most of the Modern Pentathlon world, but in some countries a degree of international collaboration has been possible.
Modern Pentathlon coaches at all levels of their development journey have been urged to access one of the most valuable resources on UIPM’s Educational Platform.
The Platform contains 20 essays written by some of the most experienced and respected coaches in the UIPM Sports movement, covering everything from training methods, winning philosophy, sport science, doping prevention and budget planning.
A steady curve of progression has led an exciting young talent to the Olympic Games.
At 22, after a wide array of under-age success but only one top-10 finish at the highest level, Lukasz Gutkowski of Poland might have felt a little too green for the world’s grandest sporting event. In 2021 he will be 23, thanks to the postponement of Tokyo 2020 – one year older and one year wiser.
The first pan-continental Modern Pentathlon competition in 12 months has attracted a world-class field of 132 athletes from 20 nations.
The elite gathering at the Hungarian Open Indoor Championships in Budapest (HUN) is a sure sign of the determination of the world’s leading pentathletes to sharpen their skills in preparation for the resumption of Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification.
Athletes have been invited via their National Federations to participate in the third test of the new Modern Pentathlon format proposed for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The official four-day test event will take place in Budapest (HUN) from April 22-25, 2021 and UIPM has asked member federations to send as many athletes as possible in the context of Olympic Games and continuing COVID-19 Coronavirus restrictions.
Dr Viacheslav Malishev was re-elected as President of the Georgian Modern Pentathlon and National Triathlon Federation at the organisation’s Congress in Tbilisi (GEO) on February 26.
Dr Malishev, who was elected to the UIPM Executive Board in 2016 as Member for Development, will be assisted by Vice President Malkhaz Shushiashvili, General Secretary Kakha Gotsiridze and the Members of the Executive Board.
Strictly speaking, it won’t be Samantha Schultz’s first Olympic Games if she is selected to represent Team USA at Tokyo 2020 in 2021. But it will be the first time her name has appeared on the board.
Five years ago in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), the Colorado athlete (then Samantha Achterberg) accompanied the Isaksen sisters to the Games as alternate. She didn’t get the chance to compete, but the experience of being so near and yet so far from Olympic participation intensified her burning desire to achieve this goal.
Michelle Gulyas of Hungary produced an impressive Laser Run to conquer a high-class field and win gold in the Women’s Final of the Hungarian Open Indoor Championships.
The climax of the competition was dominated by two athletes who had set off with a significant time deficit, and the home favourite (8th starter) earned huge credit by holding off a stiff challenge from the Laser Run world record holder Ilke Ozyuksel of Turkey, who had started 15th.
When Modern Pentathlon was created and established by the Modern Olympic Games founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin, it was mainly for elite groups and it was only for men – women weren’t even involved in the Olympic Games until 2000.