The world’s top pentathletes will be in action when the 2009 Modern Pentathlon World Championships take place at Crystal Palace in London from 13-17 August.
Media accreditation forms are available from the World Championships website. You can download a form by going to http://www.pentathlongb.org/mpwc/media.php
There will be a number of media opportunities with members of the British team in the lead-up to the championships.
These are as follows:
Friday 3 July 2009 at 12.00 – GB World Championships team announcement & photo opportunity at Crystal Palace, London
Sunday 26 July – GB Open Pentathlon at the University of Bath, Bath
Tuesday 11 August – pre-World Championships GB team press conference at Crystal Palace, London
Times will be confirmed nearer to the dates. For further information or to log any specific requests, please contact the Pentathlon GB press office at Matchtight Ltd on 01225 443998 or 07765 071683.
You can also find out further details of the championships at http://www.pentathlongb.org/mpwc
Pentathlon GB Notes for Editors
* Modern Pentathlon is one of Britain's most successful Olympic sports. The sport for women was introduced to the Olympics at Sydney 2000 and since then Britain's women have won four Olympic medals - or 66 per cent of the medals available to them. Steph Cook won gold and Kate Allenby bronze at Sydney 2000, with Georgina Harland winning bronze at Athens in 2004 and Heather Fell winning Olympic silver at the Beijing 2008 Games.
* Great Britain had the maximum complement of four pentathletes - Heather Fell, Katy Livingston, Sam Weale and Nick Woodbridge - competing at the Beijing Olympic Games. It was one of only 10 nations to have the full complement of four pentathletes in Beijing. Four British women achieved the qualifying standard for Beijing, but only two could compete, while Weale and Woodbridge became the first men to represent Great Britain in the modern pentathlon at an Olympic Games since Atlanta 96.
* The sport of modern pentathlon has traditionally consisted of five disciplines - shooting, fencing, swimming, riding and running. However, at the end of 2008 the international federation, the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM), decided to replace two of the individual elements - the shooting and running - with a combined run/shoot.
* The new combined event format sees athletes first compete in fencing - when they take-on each other athlete in the field to one hit with each bout taking a maximum of one minute; a 200m freestyle swim; show jumping - when athletes get to meet their horses just 20 minutes before going into the riding arena; then the combined run/shoot - where athletes run 60m, shoot at five targets in up to 70 seconds, run 1k, shoot at another five targets in 70 seconds, run 1k, shoot at a further five targets in 70 seconds and then finish off with a final 1k run. All of the disciplines take place in one day.
* Each performance during the day is converted into pentathlon points and the winner is the athlete to amass the most points at the end of the day. The start of the run/shoot is staggered so the athlete leading the field after the earlier disciplines starts first. This means the first athlete to cross the finish line is the winner.
* The 2009 World Championships, which take place at Crystal Palace from 13 to 17 August, will be the first senior world championships to operate under the new combined event format. It is the first World Championships in an Olympic sport to be held in London since 1986.
* Pentathlon GB at Olympic and youth level is a beneficiary of the Lottery funded World Class Programmes (WCP). The Programmes focus on performance sport with the aim of achieving sporting excellence on the world stage. Further information can be found on the UK Sport website at www.uksport.gov.uk and Sport England's website at www.sportengland.org
* Pentathlon GB also receives support from M&S as part of the FTSE-BOA Initiative.
* Further information can be found on the Pentathlon GB website at www.pentathlongb.org
UK Sport
UK Sport's mission is to work in partnership to lead sport in the UK to world class success. Our overall goal is to help British athletes achieve a top four finish in the medal table at the 2012 Olympic Games and to retain second place at the Paralympic Games.
To achieve this we focus on World Class Performance, thereby ensuring our athletes can access the support they need to compete and win at the highest level.
This primary goal is supported by work in the areas of Worldwide Impact (building Britain's reputation on the global sporting scene) and World-Class Standards (ensuring British athletes succeed fairly and cleanly). Part of our remit is to co-ordinate and participate in the UK's efforts to bid for and stage major events on home soil.
Through our Lottery-funded World Class Events Programme we have supported the bidding for and staging of over 100 events of World, European and Commonwealth status since 1997. Through this programme, we are supporting the 2009 Modern Pentathlon World Championships. For more information visit www.uksport.gov.uk
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