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Modern Pentathlon

Events

2024
21 Aug
 
25 Aug
2018
04 Jul
 
08 Jul

FISU Technical Committee Chairs

Philipp Waeffler Technical Committee Chair
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Ana Ruth Orellana Substitute Technical Committee Chair
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The History of Modern Pentathlon in FISU

Modern Pentathlon has been included in 2014 as a new sport of FISU. In 2015 the first international Modern Pentathlon university competition was successfully organized in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The 1st Modern Pentathlon FISU World University Championships will be held in the summer of 2018. Budapest, the capital of Hungary, has been named as host city.

Modern Pentathlon is one of the original Olympic sports, consisting of fencing, swimming, horse riding and running combined with laser shooting, It is one of the most physically and mentally demanding sports in the world and its reach has expanded in recent years to embrace all five continents. The competition formats include individual, team and mixed-relay competitions.