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Nikita Mawhirt named as 2021 Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship Holder
via Sport Australia Hall of Fame Twenty-six additional Aussie athletes to benefit from financial support An additional 26 outstanding young athletes from across Australia will receive scholarships as part of this year’s Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship &...
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...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: UIPM releases dates for qualification competitions in 2021
The road to Tokyo for the Olympic Games in 2021 is now fully mapped out for modern pentathletes after UIPM published dates for the remaining qualification competitions. After the COVID-19 Coronavirus forced its postponement, the Tokyo 2020 Games will take...
New Qualification system for Modern Pentathlon at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games published
The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) has published a revised qualification system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 after its proposals were ratified by the International Olympic Committee. The new system sets out a clear pathway for...
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
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
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
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
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...