UIPM World Cup #2 2011

Turn your computer into a TV and watch the 2 x 1 hour Modern Pentathlon TV show from World Cup #2 in Sassari, Italy.

This show is available exclusively to UIPM’s You Tube Station:

The show contains the best action from the men’s and women’s Pentathlon event including races plus behind the scenes interviews with some of the top athletes. In addition we take a look at how tough it is to train to become an elite Modern Pentathletes by visiting the British National Training centre.

All this plus more, check it out the show plus more exclusive footage at UIPM’s Youth Tube channel www.youtube.com/uipmchannel

Review all the shooting statistic data from the Combined Event from World Cup #2. This was the 2nd time the new enrionmentally friendly laser shooting sytstem in the World Cup Series.

During the Shooting there were several incredible World Records broken:

5 Shots:

15 Shots

Re-live all the action from the always exciting Mixed Relay from Sassari, Italy in pictures here www.facebook.com/modpen.

China who was represented by Yanyan Wu and Jiahao Han have won the Mixed Relay event at World Cup #2 in Sassari, Italy.

The inexperienced Chinese team outclassed the field in the Combined Event, which was no mean feat with 2 Olympic Champions chasing them. Andrei Moiseev for Russia whose partner was Ekaterina Khurasinkina and Lena Schoneborn for Germany who was paired with Stefan Kollner, had to settle for sliver and bonze respectively as China ran away with the title.

The USA pair of Margaux Isaksen and Dennis Bowsher had a near perfect ride and will start the Combined Event 1st with a 2 second lead of the Chinese pair of Yanyan Wu and Jiahao Han.

The Russian pair of Ekaterina Khurasinkina and Double Olympic Champion Andrei Moiseev who were leading into the riding event performed well below their best to drop back to 3rd 16 seconds behind the Americans.

Full results can be found here http://pentathlon.org/results/competition-results/results/pentathlon/734-uipm-world-cup-2/senior/mix/relay

The Ukraine pair of Victoria Tereshuk and Rusian Nakonechnyi has easily won the swimming event in the mixed relay. Both athletes have to swim 100m to make up the distance and the Ukrainians did it very quick in a time of 1:53,78. Next down was the Italian team followed by Poland.

The Russian pair is still leading the event despite finishing in 8th position in the swim. The USA pair of Margaux Isaksen and Dennis Bowsher have moved their way up to 3rd position

The Russian pair of Ekaterina Khurasinkina and Double Olympic Champion Andrei Moiseev has won the fencing in the Mixed Relay at World Cup #2.

The Russians ended up with 44 victories and 20 defeats 4 ahead of the Latvian pair of Elena Rublevska and Denis Cerkovskis. The Chinese pair of Yanyan Wu and Jiahao Han and the Americans Margaux Isaken and Dennis Bowsher were a further victory behind.

Re-live the excitment in pictures from the men's final at World Cup #2 here www.facebook.com/modpen

2 Olympic Champions will line up tomorrow for the Mixed Relay at World Cup #2 with Lena Schoneborn competing for Germany and Andrei Moiseev for Russia.

With Schoneborn’s presence alongside Stefan Kollner the German team will be favorite to win the 17 team competition.

The Italian crowd will have 2 teams to cheer for with Italy 1 being Alice Sotero and Fabio Poddidhe and Italy 2 Claudia Cesarini and Lorenzo Certelli.

All the action begins tomorrow at 8:30 (+2 GMT) tomorrow morning and live updates can be found on Pentathlon.org.

World #2 Adam Marosi (HUN) kept his cool to capture gold in a thrilling Men’s Final at World Cup #2 in Sassari, Italy.

Marosi overtook Justinas Kinderis (LTU), who had to settle for bronze on the final shoot to win his first World Cup in 10 months. World #1 Aleksander Lesun (RUS) won silver, a position he occupied all day.