The Modern Pentathlon Association Great Britain is the national governing body for the sport of modern pentathlon in Great Britain, recognised by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne.
Modern Pentathlon, the sport Baron Pierre de Coubertin called ‘the veritable consecration of the complete athlete’ comprises five events: fencing, swimming, riding, shooting and running. Today's competition involves fencing épée for a single hit against each of the other competitors; swimming 200 metres freestyle; riding an unknown horse round a show-jumping course, and then running four 800 metre laps each preceded by shooting at five targets with a laser pistol. First appearing in the Olympic Games of 1912 at the specific request of de Coubertin, founder of the Modern Olympic Games, the same five sports have comprised this greatest of all Olympic challenges and the sport completed one hundred years of unbroken Olympic participation in 2012. Despite technological changes the five events have remained essentially the same. In Stockholm in 1912, competitors brought their own horses, fenced outdoors without electric equipment, used military pistols and swam and ran outdoors. The Stockholm event took six days to complete while the super-athletes of today finish in a single day; in 1912 only men competed while today women share equal billing; the 1912 competitors were nearly all military men while today civilians generally dominate the sport. The recent changes in the sport which combine shooting and running in a single event and make use of laser pistols are some of the exciting new developments that put Modern Pentathlon at the forefront of 21st century sporting advances. Even after one hundred years of Olympic competition, Modern Pentathlon's ability to move with the times has made it the true test of the all-round Olympic super athlete.
The ModernPentathlonAssociationGreatBritain is the national governing body for the sport of modernpentathlon in GreatBritain, recognised by the Union...
World ModernPentathlon Championships were held from 19 to 28 August 2023 in Bath, United Kingdom. Top 3 finishers in men's and women's pentathlon events...
The UIPM World ModernPentathlon Championships (for Seniors) is an annual global international competition in modernpentathlon. It was first held in 1949...
GreatBritain (specifically known as GreatBritain and Northern Ireland), the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA) which represents the United...
Great Britain has won 20 judo medals, none have been gold. GreatBritain's Olympic lacrosse debut was in 1908. GreatBritain's Olympic modernpentathlon debut...
This article lists the main modernpentathlon events and their results for 2003. August 11 & 12: 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo Individual winners:...
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of the Olympic modernpentathlon to that time. GreatBritain sent a polo team to the Olympics for the fourth time in 1924. GreatBritain was the only nation...
took up modernpentathlon whilst completing her course in clinical medicine at Oxford. She was president of the Oxford University ModernPentathlon Association...
women's modernpentathlon World Cup in 1979 at the age of 19. She was a member of the GreatBritainmodernpentathlon team that won gold at the Modern Pentathlon...
Nightingale was the Britishpentathlon champion in 1976, 1977, and 1978. He later became the Development Officer for the ModernPentathlonAssociation. Nightingale...
ModernPentathlon Championships was held in Mexico City, Mexico from 6 to 15 September 2018. UIPM World Championships - Seniors UIPM 2018 PENTATHLON WORLD...
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GreatBritain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. British...
This article lists the main modernpentathlon events and their results for 2011. July 16 – 24: 2011 Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro Individual...
GreatBritain, or in full GreatBritain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics...
The 2019 World ModernPentathlon Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 2 to 9 September 2019. The 59th edition of the championships, and the...
winners: GreatBritain (Mhairi Spence, Lindsey Weedon, & Katy Livingston) August 27 – September 2: 2007 World Youth "A" and Combined ModernPentathlon Championships...
This article lists the main modernpentathlon events and their results for 2019. July 27 – 30: 2019 Pan American Games in Lima Individual winners: Charles...
Olympics, with Steph Cook and Kate Allenby taking the two British spots in the women's modernpentathlon. She described herself as having been "devastated" at...
GreatBritain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. British athletes have competed...
Awards. Competing for the British team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Allenby won a bronze medal in modernpentathlon with team-mate Steph Cook...
This article lists the main modernpentathlon events and their results for 2015. July 18 & 19: 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto Individual winners:...
GreatBritain, the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with...
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