High calibre entry to contest British Modern Pentathlon Championships
Two Olympic medallists and a reigning world champion are among the athletes battling it out for honours at the British Modern Pentathlon Championships in Solihull this weekend.
The impressive line-up of athletes competing at the Tudor Grange Leisure Centre on Saturday (6 April) also includes two further British Olympians and a former World Junior champion.
And there is a place on the British team for the European Championships in Poland in July up for grabs for the winner of both the men’s and women’s overall titles.
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray and Beijing 2008 silver medallist Heather Fell, winner of the women’s title last year, are among the pentathletes contesting the event in Solihull on Saturday.
They will be joined by another London 2012 Olympian Mhairi Spence, who became Britain’s first senior individual modern pentathlon world champion for more than a decade in Rome in May last year
There will be British senior and junior titles up for grabs. The overall highest scoring man and woman will earn a place on the GB team for this summer’s European Championships.
Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director, said: “The dates for this year’s championships have fitted in well with the international calendar. It’s an opportunity for our athletes to compete in the UK, and particularly for the younger ones. Competing is the best training for them.”
The championships are organised by Pentathlon GB, the national governing body for the Olympic sport of modern pentathlon. They will see athletes complete a fence, swim, ride and combined run/shoot all in the space of one day.
2013 senior modern pentathlon calendar 20-24 February: World Cup 1 – Palm Springs, USA 20-24 March: World Cup 2 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6 April: British Championships, Solihull 17-21 April: World Cup 3 – Chengdu, China 8-12 May: World Cup 4 – Budapest, Hungary 31 May – 2 June: World Cup Final – Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia 11-17 July: European Championships – Drzonkow, Poland 15-21 August: World Championships – Kaoshiung, Chinese Taipei
