UIPM World Cup Final 2011

Turn your computer into a TV and watch the 2 x 1 hour Modern Pentathlon Magazine TV show from the Olympic Qualification event, the World Cup Final in London, Great Britain.

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The show contains the best action from the men’s and women’s Pentathlon event plus behind the scenes interviews with some of the top athletes.

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Margaux Isaksen (USA) completed the entire 2011 World Cup Final in London in a cast with a broken arm. Isaksen broke the radius and a small bone in the wrist of her left arm at the Kremlin’s Cup in Moscow three weeks previously, but still managed to finish 26th in London from a field of 36 athletes.

Comments from Lena SCHONEBORN (GER), Laura ASADAUSKAITE (LTU), Elodie CLOUVEL (FRA) at a media conference following the 2011 UIPM World Cup Final at Greenwich Park on Sunday (10 July).

Review all the action from the 2011 Women's World Cup Final, which also acted as an Olympic test event and Olympic Qualification in picture, by clicking here

Germany’s Lena SCHONEBORN showed champion class to overhaul a 28-second deficit and retain the World Cup Final title she picked up in Moscow, Russia, in 2010.

Despite knocking down 3 fences the winner of the swimming Elodie Clouvel (FRA) will start 1st in the combined event 1 second ahead of the winner of the fencing Elena Rublevska (LAT). They will be followed by a pair of local Brits Mhairi Spence and Heather Fell who are 10 and 19 seconds behind the leader respectively.

World #2 Donata Rimsaite will start off 5th ahead of Lena Schoneborn (GER) in 7th who had a nightmare ride and is 29 seconds back.

The leaders will be looking over their back at the combined event speedster and former World #1 Laura Asadauskaite (LTU) who starts in 11th position and only 35 seconds behind Clouvel.

Elodie Clouvel (FRA) has won the swim in a personal best time of 2:07.42 in the Women’s World Cup Final. Clouvel’s swim catapults her to the top of the leaders board ahead of the riding. Leila Gyenesei (HUN) came in 2nd 2 second behind the French Women which moves her up to 10th after a disappointing fence.

Local favourite Mhairi Spence’s (GBR) 8th position in the swim was enough to move her up to 2nd position just in front of the Olympic Champion MLena Schoneborn (GER) and the winner of the fencing Elena Rublevska (LAT).

Next up is the riding discipline which can be watched in its entirety live on Pentathlon.org.

Mother of one and 2004 Olympic silver medallist Elena Rublevska (LAT) has rolled back the clock to win the fencing at the Women’s World Cup Final with 28 victories and only 4 defeats. She easily beat current World #1 Lena Schoneborn by 3 victories who finished 2nd.

World #3 Donata Rimsaite (RUS), despite not training for 6 weeks due to illness has put in a great performance sitting equal with Schoneborn. After a strong fence these 2 will be confident of victory and claiming direct qualification to next year’s Olympics.

Local favourite and one of the form athletes of the tour Mhairi Spence (GBR) is 2 victories back ahead of speedster Laura Asadauskaite (LTU) who will be very happy with her fencing performance.

Stay tuned for all the swimming action now!

Disappointment for Aya Medany of Egypt as a recurring leg muscle injury forces her to pull midway through the fencing at the 2011 World Cup Final.

Medany struggled with the injury at World Cup #2 in April and then again at World Cup #3 in Budapest, despite which she still managed to win the event.

The injury will now put her in doubt for African Championships in a few week’s time.

Her coach Walid Sayad said: Aya is very dissapointed, however we though it was best for her long term future to pull out of today's event.

After World ranked #30 Nick Woodbridge rose to the top to grab bronze yesterday all the women competing today will like their chances for themselves to cause an upset. After battling their way across the world to gain valuable world cup series points to qualify for today’s final, the women will be looking to make the most of their chances.

We have all the World Cup Final champions in the field today being: Aya Medany (2007), Donata Rimsaite (2008 & 2009) and Lena Schoneborn (2010), so they know what it takes to be the best in these high pressure competitions.

Follow all the results live at http://pentathlon.org/results/competition-results/results/pentathlon/738-uipm-world-cup-final/1/women/final, and watch all the action live on Pentathlon.org at 12:50 local time (+1 GMT).