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Athletes announced for Oceania Champs/Olympic qualifier

Athletes announced for Oceania Champs/Olympic qualifier

Modern Pentathlon Australia is pleased to announce the following athletes who have been selected to compete in the Oceania Championships, being held as part of the Asian Championships in China from November 11 - 21, 2019.  These Championships, held every year, are...

Watt and Lanskey show great fight at World Juniors

Watt and Lanskey show great fight at World Juniors

There is an element of luck involved in the Show Jumping discipline of Modern Pentathlon, when athletes are riding on a borrowed horse, and unfortunately luck wasn’t on the side of the Australian Mixed Relay team at the World Junior Championships. Tully Watt was...

Top Aussies ready for World Juniors in Poland

Top Aussies ready for World Juniors in Poland

Australia will be well represented at the UIPM World Junior Championships in Drzonkow, Poland this week. National senior champions Rhys Lanskey from Brisbane and Tully Watt from Melbourne will take on the world’s best pentathletes aged up to 21 years of age. Lanskey,...

Carrier on the podium in Poland Open

Carrier on the podium in Poland Open

Marina Carrier has continued her strong start to the international season by running on to the podium at the Poland National Open II. Carrier started the Laser-Run in sixth place and quickly moved to fourth in the final discipline of the two-day competition. “I sat in...

Lanskey training hard for big international season

Lanskey training hard for big international season

On the 10th of March 17-year-old Rhys Lanskey won the Australian senior modern pentathlon title in commanding fashion at his home-city of Brisbane. Lanskey concluded the full day or competition with a fantastic personal best and international senior qualifying time of...

Carrier gets season off to a great start in Paris

Carrier gets season off to a great start in Paris

Marina Carrier has started her international season in great form at the French Championships in Paris. The 22-year-old Tokyo Olympic hopeful was sixth in a strong field and a big step up from her 12th in the same event last year. After a long hard summer of training,...

Carrier starts international season in Paris this weekend

Carrier starts international season in Paris this weekend

Australian representative and Tokyo Olympic Games hopeful Marina Carrier will start her international season this weekend at the French Championships. The Medical Science student from Sydney, who has represented Australia across the youth, junior and senior levels,...

Pentathlon World Cup in Cairo signals start of international season

Pentathlon World Cup in Cairo signals start of international season

The world’s best pentathletes will renew rivalries this week at the UIPM 2019 Pentathlon World Cup Cairo. The opening World Cup of the season will attract plenty of interest as it also marks the start of the Olympic qualification for Tokyo 2020. Competition in Egypt...

Modern Pentathlon shows International Athletics the way

Modern Pentathlon shows International Athletics the way

Modern Pentathlon has made many changes to competition formats over the last several years to improve accessibility and interest for spectators. Now the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is following our lead. Concluding races in the decathlon...