Pentathlon GB’s incredible recent success in the Senior World Championships continued on the first day of the 2016 championships as Joanna Muir and Samantha Murray (pictured above) claimed silver in the Women’s Relay. World Championships debutant Muir and former World Champion Murray combined to form a fantastic team performance in a tightly contested event in
Pentathlon GB has selected nine University of Bath-based athletes, including two current students and six graduates, for next week’s World Championships – the last qualifying event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Samantha Murray, World Champion in 2014, is named in the women’s team along with Kate French, Joanna Muir and Freyja Prentice. Jamie Cooke,
Pentathlon GB will send a 9-strong team to compete in next week’s 2016 Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Moscow, it has been announced today. The competition represents the final qualifying event before the Rio Olympic Games. At just 26, former World Champion Samantha Murray is the oldest member of the team that contains significant experience
The glorious past, exciting present and bright future of modern pentathlon was celebrated at the University of Bath on Wednesday when Dr Stephanie Cook and Kate Allenby were welcomed into the Hall of Fame for Sport. The current Pentathlon GB athletes training towards the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were among those watching
Defending champion Georgia Pipes produced a great all-round performance to finish second and pick up another medal at the Milan Kadlec Memorial in Prague on Saturday (14th May). Meanwhile, first-year Junior athlete Georgina Summers finished 16th after being eliminated in the ride, the final discipline of the day, having been well placed in 4th beforehand.
Pentathlon GB’s Junior Team head to Prague this weekend to compete in the Milan Kadlec Memorial. The competition represents another opportunity for the young Brits to build up their international competition experience against their counterparts from abroad. The Women’s team contains defending champion Georgia Pipes and Georgina Summers, younger sister of current Junior World Champion
Jamie Cooke showed his true colours again today when he took to the podium to accept his Gold medal after winning the UIPM 2016 World Cup Final. Cooke’s World Cup season has gone from strength to strength with him starting the series in Brazil in March where he finished 19th. Just one month later he
The women’s event of the UIPM 2016 World Cup Final came to a close yesterday (Friday May 6th) in the sunshine state of Florida with Pentathlon GB athlete Freyja Prentice finishing 6th in Sarasota – her highest placing in this year’s World Cup series. The performance was also a marked improvement on last year’s Sarasota
Freyja Prentice, Kate French and Samantha Murray all recorded their best world cup finishes of the season as they claimed top 10 places in Kecskemet, Hungary. Prentice recovered from a tough start to head the team home in 7th with French producing a good all-round performance to finish 8th. Murray overcame stomach problems to finish
GB’s Kate French finished in 11th place in Rome today after being the only women to qualify for the World Cup 3 final. French had a fantastic start to the day when she came 4th in the fencing salle, scoring 22 victories and 13 defeats and securing herself 232 modern pentathlon points. The 25-year-old was
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