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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The scene is set for Marina Carrier to claim the women’s modern pentathlon Oceania spot for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Asia/Oceania Championships in Wuhan China on 11 November. Four years ago, at the same event, she was the second placed Oceania athlete...
An exciting contest between 2012 Olympian Ed Fernon, who is on the modern pentathlon comeback trail, and 18-year-old national champion Rhys Lanskey will take place in China on 12 November. The first time the two Australians compete against each other, will be when the...
Twenty-one of the most respected individuals in the UIPM Sports movement have been appointed to two working groups charged with shaping the future of Modern Pentathlon and Tetrathlon. The composition of the New Pentathlon Working Group (NPWG) and New Tetrathlon...
As one of the busiest international seasons in the history of UIPM Sports draws towards a close, UIPM President Dr Klaus Schormann reflects on the dramatic transformation the Modern Pentathlon movement has undergone in recent years. He conducted a Q&A with Around...
2012 Olympian Ed Fernon of Sydney has returned to competition with a win at a low-key competition in New Zealand on the weekend. Despite not competing in a full pentathlon competition since the 2015 World Championships, the 31-year-old has been keeping in good shape...