Sunday, 4 April 2021
Five top European competitors, including two former world champions, will contest one place on the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Athletes Committee when elections take place for the Paris 2024 cycle during the World Championships in Cairo in June.
The European category is the most competitive of the six involved, with the election for Asia, where there are just two candidates, the only other where there will be a contest.
European nominations announced by the UIPM include Britain s 30-year-old Jamie Cooke, the 2018 world champion and 2019 European champion, and 2016 world champion Valentin Belaud of France.
Also in the mix will be Ireland s 30-year-old Natalya Coyle, who is qualified to compete at what will be her third Olympics at Tokyo 2020.
The wild story of Aussie athleteâs journey to Tokyo Edward Fernon has booked his place at the Tokyo Olympics â and it was a wild journey of guns, swords, and a long ride through Mongolia.
Sport by Julian Linden
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Subscriber only Waiting another year to get to the Tokyo Olympics hasn t fazed Edward Fernon, Australia s male entrant in modern pentathlon. He s always taken the road less travelled anyway. Once, in 2012, to raise awareness about depression in the bush and money for the Black Dog Institute, Fernon rode a horse 1100km from Braidwood to Melbourne and back - the same journey, legend has it, that Archer took when he won the inaugural Melbourne Cup in 1861.
The wild story of Aussie athleteâs journey to Tokyo Edward Fernon has booked his place at the Tokyo Olympics â and it was a wild journey of guns, swords, and a long ride through Mongolia.
Sport by Julian Linden
Premium Content
Subscriber only Waiting another year to get to the Tokyo Olympics hasn t fazed Edward Fernon, Australia s male entrant in modern pentathlon. He s always taken the road less travelled anyway. Once, in 2012, to raise awareness about depression in the bush and money for the Black Dog Institute, Fernon rode a horse 1100km from Braidwood to Melbourne and back - the same journey, legend has it, that Archer took when he won the inaugural Melbourne Cup in 1861.
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