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The UIPM 2023 Pentathlon Junior World Championships continued today with athletes taking part in the Women’s Individual Qualification in Druskininkai (LTU).
The 18 best performers in each of two qualification groups earned passage to the Women’s Final. With 1,296 points Farida Khalil of Egypt won the first group by 23 points from Katarzyna Debska of Poland, with Elzbieta Adomaityte of Lithuania qualifying in 3rd.
The UIPM 2023 Pentathlon Junior World Championships continued today with athletes taking part in the Men’s Individual Qualification in Druskininkai (LTU).
More than 1,500 athletes from 44 nations have gathered in Genk (BEL) for the inaugural World Obstacle / UIPM OCR World Championships (September 15-17).
The UIPM 2023 Pentathlon Junior World Championships continued today with the 72 individual finalists taking part in the Fencing Ranking Round in Druskininkai (LTU).
- Two gold and two bronze medals for France as Egypt claim Women’s Team crown
- Host nation roars support for men’s silver medallist Vagnorius (LTU)
- Pentathlon with new Obstacle discipline broadcast live for first time
Josefine Unterberger of Germany and Mathis Rochat of France broke new ground as the first world junior champions in the new-look Modern Pentathlon on Super Saturday.
- Egypt claim third gold of week in Druskininkai (LTU)
- Women’s champion Unterberger (GER) adds silver with Klinkert
- Joy for host nation as Adomaityte and Vagnorius (LTU) claim bronze
Egypt had the final say of a captivating week as Zeina Amer and Moutaz Mohamed combined for a wonderful Mixed Relay gold on the closing day of the UIPM 2023 Pentathlon Junior World Championships.
- UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann to chair seven-person group
- FISO President Ian Adamson among three Obstacle specialists included
- Working Group will formalise integration according to signed MOU
MONACO: September 19, 2023 – Dr Klaus Schormann, President of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), will chair a seven-person Ad-hoc Working Group charged with formalising UIPM’s integration of the Federation Internationale de Sports d’Obstacles (FISO).
- Women’s and Men’s Individual champions retain titles first won in 2018
- Thailand seals first Olympic Modern Pentathlon berth thanks to Yohuang (THA)
- Athletes from Japan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan also seal Paris 2024 places
Mingyu Zhang of China and Woongtae Jun of Korea retained their titles as Asian Games champions on a day when 10 pentathletes won direct qualification quota places at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
With a little piece of history made on the Greek island of Crete this month when UIPM Sports made its Mediterranean Beach Games debut, the future came into focus too.
Twenty new students took their first steps on the judging journey as they took part in a successful week-long UIPM Judges Certification Programme course which coincided with the competition taking place in Heraklion (GRE).
All journeys have to start somewhere – and the experience of Kian O’Boyle of United States at the UIPM 2023 Junior World Championships underlined the possibilities and challenges created by the integration of Obstacle into Modern Pentathlon.
Competing in a Pentathlon for only the second time, the 19-year-old Ninja specialist demonstrated his athleticism and speed with a remarkable Obstacle time of exactly 25sec in the second Qualification round.