The excitement of the UIPM 2015 World Cup #1 reached a higher level today in Sarasota-Bradenton, USA where more than 100 athletes were competing for 36 places in Saturday's Final.
The highlight of today's event was Logan Storie's new Modern Pentathlon world record in the the Swimming event (50m pool).
Storie (USA) swam the 200m in 1:53.72min, a performance that took more than one second of the previous record (1:54.25min) held by Britain's James Cooke.
All three qualifying groups were extremely competitive. After Fencing, Swimming and Combined Event (running and shooting), the list of qualified Athletes for the Men's Individual Final is:
Q LANIGAN-O KEEFFE Arthur IRL
Q PETRONI Pierpaolo ITA
Q STASIAK Sebastian POL
Q CASSE Simon FRA
Q EVANS Joseph GBR
Q KUF Jan CZE
Q PUCHKAREVSKIY Egor RUS
Q PINCHUK Raman BLR
Q GUO Jianli CHN
Q MISHCHENKO Vladislav UKR
Q KUSTOV Maksim RUS
Q SUKHAREV Vladislav KAZ
Q FROLOV Ilia RUS
Q DEMETER Gergely HUN
Q EL GEZIRY Amro EGY
Q HAMAD Eslam EGY
Q PAVLYUK Denys UKR
Q HEFNY Yasser EGY
Q TYMOSHCHENKO Pavlo UKR
Q COOKE James GBR
Q SANDTEN Matthias GER
Q KINDERIS Justinas LTU
Q HERNANDEZ USCANGA Ismael MEX
Q CHOONG Joseph GBR
q KRASTANOV Dimitar BUL
q PODDIGHE Fabio ITA
q KASZA Robert HUN
q FERNANDEZ Charles GUA
q ILYASHENKO Pavel KAZ
q BELAUD Valentin FRA
q KIRPULYANSKYY Dmytro UKR
q SANDOVAL Alvaro MEX
q PATTE Christopher FRA
q BOWSHER Dennis USA
q GRALEWSKI Michal POL
q BUSTOS Esteban CHI
Q - Automatically qualified
q - Qualified through the time
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