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2021 Australian Championships: Riding Expression of Interest

2021 Australian Championships: Riding Expression of Interest

The expression of interest is NOW OPEN for those who wish to compete in the Australian Modern Pentathlon Championships, March 27-28 2021.  To register your interest, please complete the online form HERE.  For more information about the event,...

UIPM 2020 Pentathlon World Championships in Cancún (MEX) cancelled

UIPM 2020 Pentathlon World Championships in Cancún (MEX) cancelled

via UIPM: MONACO: September 28, 2020 – The Executive Board of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) has voted to cancel the UIPM 2020 Pentathlon World Championships in Cancun (MEX). This would have been the first UIPM competition to take place since...

UIPM Statement on new dates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021

UIPM Statement on new dates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021

UIPM has welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee to reschedule the Games of the XXXII Olympiad for July 23 to August 8, 2021. Today’s announcement means the UIPM Executive Board (EB) can now meet via...

UIPM Pentathlon World Cup season postponed until May due to COVID-19

UIPM Pentathlon World Cup season postponed until May due to COVID-19

The remainder of the UIPM 2020 Pentathlon World Cup season has been postponed until May due to the Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. The competition circuit kicked off in Cairo (EGY) in February but the remaining World Cup events in Sofia (BUL) and Budapest (HUN), as...

Every-Hall appointed as the  new Pathways and High Performance Manager

Every-Hall appointed as the new Pathways and High Performance Manager

Olympian Hannah Every-Hall will be joining Modern Pentathlon Australia as the Pathways and High Performance Manager – a new role funded by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Modern Pentathlon Australia President Kitty Chiller is thrilled with this significant...

Fernon set for second Olympics with remarkable comeback

Fernon set for second Olympics with remarkable comeback

Australian modern pentathletes Ed Fernon and Rhys Lanskey both came into the Olympic qualifying event in China with different stories and ‘nothing to lose’. And while Fernon won the Oceania spot for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with a remarkable performance and...

Carrier just falls short of automatic Olympic qualification

Carrier just falls short of automatic Olympic qualification

Missed training and competition, due to a recent leg stress fracture, took its toll on Marina Carrier at the Asia/Oceania Championships in China on Monday. The 23-year-old did remarkably well to be on the start line and competed to exhaustion, but it just wasn’t...