Modern Pentathlon
Young athletes bid for places at Schools Biathlon Championships final
Young athletes from across Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and the former Avon county area will be battling it out for places in the national final of the British Schools Biathlon Championships at the final regional qualifier at the University of Bath on Sunday (24th January).
The Schools Biathlon Championships are organised by …
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
GB team win team silver at world champs
The British trio of Heather Fell, Katy Livingston and Mhairi Spence won the team silver medal at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships at Crystal Palace in London yesterday (Sunday).
The team were pipped for team gold by Germany, with Hungary taking bronze.
In the individual competition, Fell finished ninth, Spence 14th and …
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Weale and Livingston win ahead of World Champs
University of Bath graduates Sam Weale and Katy Livingston took the senior titles at the British Senior and Junior National Pentathlon Championships in Bath today (Sunday).
The event was the last competition British pentathletes will compete at ahead of the World Championships, which take place at Crystal Palace from 13-17 August.
Weale …
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Mason and North added to GB World Championships team
Two young pentathletes have been added to the British team to compete at next month’s Modern Pentathlon World Championships, which take place at Crystal Palace in London.
Eighteen-year-old Steven Mason and 20-year-old Russell North will both make their senior World Championship debuts at Crystal Palace. The championships get underway three weeks …
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Britain’s Heather Fell wins individual silver as GB win team gold at Euro Champs
Britain’s Heather Fell added the Modern Pentathlon European Championships silver medal to her Olympic silver in Leipzig today (Saturday) – and her performance helped Great Britain win the team gold.
Fell produced an outstanding series in today’s final with her fastest swim of the year, she was the only rider to …
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Nine-strong team named for European Championships
Pentathlon GB today (Wednesday) named a nine-strong British team to compete at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Germany later this month.
The team includes Beijing 2008 Olympians Heather Fell, Katy Livingston, Sam Weale and Nick Woodbridge as well as three pentathletes who will be making their European Championships debuts….
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Spence fifth at Rome World Cup
University of Bath graduate Mhairi Spence produced her best performance of the season to finish fifth at the World Cup in Rome at the weekend.
Spence, who has a degree in Coach Education and Sports …
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Weale fourth at Budapest World Cup
Britain’s Sam Weale just missed out on the medals in the third Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the year, finishing fourth.
Weale, a University of Bath Sports Technology graduate, had been in contention for a medal in Budapest all day and went into the combined run/shoot, the new climax to the …
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Weale 18th at Cairo World Cup
Britain’s Sam Weale finished 18th in the second modern pentathlon World Cup competition of the year, which took place in Cairo over the weekend.
Weale, who has a degree in Sports Technology from the University of Bath, was the only British man to reach Sunday’s final.
Gold went to Ondrej Polivka of …
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Weale wins Bath International pentathlon
Britain’s Sam Weale produced a fine all-round performance to win the Bath International pentathlon today (Friday).
Weale, who finished 10th for Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, went into the final element of today’s pentathlon – the new combined run/shoot - in second place.
But he overhauled Czech pentathlete Ondrej Polivka …
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
