CAIRO - WORLD CUP #2

The top 8 World Ranked Men will fight it out for Gold at World Cup #3 in Medway Great Britain on Saturday 10 April 2010 after they all successfully qualified today. Among these athletes are current World #1 and World Champion Adam Marosi (HUN), winner of World Cup # 1 David Svoboda (CZE) and World Cup #2 Edvinas Krungolcas (LTU) and current European Champion Ondrej Polivka. So stay tuned to all the live updates at www.pentathlon.org and come and watch the live webcast at 3pm local time.

The Lithuanian’s have lit up Cairo in a scorching performance in the Combined Event at the Men’s Final at World Cup #2 in Cairo, Egypt. World #5 Edvinas Krungolcas (LTU) started from 11th position to beat his countryman Justinas Kinderis in a sprint to the finish. Krungolas said “I still feel like an 18 year old after the event and I am ecstatic to better my Silver Medal in the same event in 2009”. Russian Maxim Kuznetsov amazingly claimed bronze after starting in 22nd position.

World #5 Edvinas Krungolas (LTU) was one of only 3 athletes to score a perfect 1200 on a very tricky riding course. Event leader, Egyptian Superstar Omar El Geziry had a solid ride of 1140 to have a lead of 24 seconds over Dymtro Kirpulyanskyy (UKR) going into the tricky Combined Event with Robert Kasza (HUN) is a further 3 seconds behind. Almost all the crowd will be urging El Geziry on to win his first World Cup medal on home soil. However El Geziry has had issues with the Combined Event in the past so he will need every second of his lead if he is to claim victory.

Egypt’s local hope Omar El Geziry had had a fantastic fence to win the fencing event in the Men's Final at World Cup #2 at Cairo, Egypt with 27 Victories and just 8 Defeats. Ukrainian Brothers Dymtro Kirpulyanskyy Pavlo Kirpulyanskyy were 2nd and 3rd respectively with Dymtro gaining 25 Victories and Pavlo 23. Giancamilli, Sekretev and Kasza finished equal 4th with 22 victories.