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2004 In Modern Pentathlon
This article lists the main modern pentathlon events and their results for 2004. 2004 Summer Olympics (UIPM) * August 26 & 27: Modern pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at Goudi Olympic Complex ** Men: Andrey Moiseyev; Andrejus Zadneprovskis; Libor Capalini ** Women: Zsuzsanna Vörös; Jeļena Rubļevska; Georgina Harland Other international modern pentathlon events * September 23 & 24: 2004 CISM Modern Pentathlon Championships in Székesfehérvár ** Individual winners: Libor Capalini (m) / Jeļena Rubļevska (f) ** Women's Team Relay winners: (Claudia Corsini, Sara Bertoli, & Giulia Cafiero) World modern pentathlon events * May 29 & 30: 2004 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Moscow ** Individual winners: Andrejus Zadneprovskis (m) / Zsuzsanna Vörös (f) ** Men's Team Relay winners: (Aleksei Turkin, Dmitri Galkine, & Andrey Moiseyev) ** Women's Team Relay winners: (Paulina Boenisz, Marta Dziadura, & Magdalena Sedziak) * July 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Pentathlon
The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport consisting of fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross country running. The event is inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during the ancient Olympics. The modern pentathlon was first held in 1912, and its rules have changed several times over the years. The latest structure, as of the 2020 Olympics, consists of three separate events for fencing, swimming, and equestrian, which determine each athlete's starting time in the final event. The last event, called the laser-run, alternates four legs of laser pistol shooting followed by an 800 m run (for 3200 m in total). The sport has been a feature of the Summer Olympic Games since 1912, despite several attempts to remove it. A world championships for modern pentathlon has been held annually since 1949. The governing body, Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), administers the international sport in more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Boenisz
Paulina Joanna Boenisz (born 28 September 1978 in Warsaw) is a three-time Olympic modern pentathlete from Poland. She is also a six-time Polish national champion and a multiple-time medalist at the World Championships, where she won four golds for both women's team and relay events. Boenisz achieved her best results, and consistently performed in the women's event at the Olympics, finishing fifth in 2000, tenth in 2004, and fifth in 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; .... References External links * 1978 births Living people Polish female modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Poland Modern pentathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Róbert Kasza
Róbert Kasza (born 5 April 1986 in Budapest) is a Hungarian modern pentathlete. He was on the gold medal-winning relay team at the 2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships. He also qualified for and participated in the modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics The modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held from 11 to 12 August 2012. The men's and women's events each involved 36 athletes. The venues for the events were the Copper Box (fencing), the Aquatics Centre (swimming), an .... Robert Kasza is represented by STRONGAA Management. References External links * * * Hungarian male modern pentathletes Modern pentathletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic modern pentathletes for Hungary Sportspeople from Budapest 1986 births Living people Modern pentathletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Hungary-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mafra, Portugal
Mafra () is a city and a municipality in the district of Lisbon, on the west coast of Portugal, and part of the urban agglomeration of the Greater Lisbon subregion. The population in 2011 was 76,685, in an area of 291.66 km2. It is mostly known for the sumptuous Mafra National Palace inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built in the baroque style, the Mafra National Palace also inspired Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate José Saramago to write his novel ''Baltasar and Blimunda'' (Memorial do Convento). Other points of interest around the municipality include the Tapada Nacional de Mafra, an enclosed wildlife and game reserve, and Ericeira's World Surf Reserve, the second in the world. History The earliest archaeological remnants discovered in Mafra date to an early settlement of this region in the Neolithic period. In Seixosa, civil parish of Encarnação, in an area that was once a beach, there were archaeological remnants from the Paleolithic period, that indicate one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Modern Pentathlon Championships
European Modern Pentathlon Championships (European Senior Modern Pentathlon Championships) is main modern pentathlon championships in Europe. Events Other European Championships in Modern Pentathlon:https://www.uipmworld.org/ # European U24 Modern Pentathlon Championships # European Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships # European Masters Modern Pentathlon Championships # European Para Modern Pentathlon Championships # European U17 and 19 Tetrathlon Championships # European Tetrathlon Cup # Biathle and Triathle European Championships # European Laser Run Championships Senior championships Medal summary (1987–2022) See also * World Modern Pentathlon Championships References 2007–2012 Citations External links World Pentathlon Modern pentathlon The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport consisting of fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross country running. The event is inspired by the traditiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
} Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, finance, busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Balogh
Gábor Balogh (born 5 August 1976 in Budapest, Hungary) is a former Hungarian modern pentathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He was elected Hungarian Sportsman of the Year in 1999 and 2001 for winning gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...s at the World and European Championships. References External links * 1976 births Living people Hungarian male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Hungary Modern pentathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon Sportspeople from Budapest Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aya Medany
Aya Medany ( ar, آیة مدني; born November 20, 1988) is an Egyptian modern pentathlete. She made her Olympic début at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as the youngest competitor both in the Egyptian team and competing in the pentathlon. Career Medany made her Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics at the age of 15. She was the youngest on the Egyptian team and the youngest out of any of the athletes competing in the pentathlon. She finished in 28th place overall. She won the Olympic test event in Beijing, China, meaning that she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. She went into the Olympics competing once more for Egypt after conducting pre-games training in South Korea. The pentathlon event was due to take place on the final day of the Games, and as Egypt had only won a single bronze medal up until that point, she was highlighted as a potential medal winner towards the end of the Games despite having only placed in the top three of junior competitions pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Woodbridge
Nicholas Lloyd Woodbridge (born 1 July 1986) is a British modern pentathlete. The modern pentathlon includes the disciplines of shooting, swimming, fencing, equestrian, and cross country running. Woodbridge competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing, China, and finished 25th in the men's modern pentathlon. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. where he finished in 10th place despite being ranked 3rd in the world. In 2013 he achieved his best career result when he took the silver medal in the World Championships. Modern Pentathlon Woodbridge began swimming with Wellington Swimming Club and joined Telford Athletics Club. He rode horses from the age of three and bought his own horse aged 11. In order to compete in Pony Club tetrathlons he learnt how to shoot and by 13 he was also fencing with Much Wenlock Fencing Club. In 1999 he competed in his first pentathlon at the National Championships, finishing third. In 2000 he won the National Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albena
Albena ( bg, Албена) is a major Black Sea resort in northeastern Bulgaria, Balchik Municipality, situated from Balchik and from Varna. Albena is served by Varna Airport. Since 2005 is considered as a settlement by the National Statistical Institute. Albena is one of the purpose-built resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and has a uniform and unique architectural style. Although it was built on an empty ground in the 1960s, now this is in fact a small resort town with its own downtown, streets, squares and even internal public transport — dedicated little "trains" circulate on schedule along their routes within the resort. The resort was opened in 1967 by the top Bulgarian communist officials of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Georgi Traykov, Todor Zhivkov and several others. The resort is 5-km long, 150 m wide beach with fine sand. Sea depth does not exceed 1.6 metres at a distance up to 100–150 metres from the beach. The tourist season lasts from May till ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Fell
Heather Fell (born 3 March 1983 in Plymouth, England) is a former British modern pentathlete turned triathlete. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the women's modern pentathlon event. Early life Fell grew up in Tavistock, Devon, where she was taught to ride and shoot, both disciplines in the pentathlon, by the parents of the 2000 Olympic pentathlon bronze medallist Kate Allenby. Heather has a degree in physiotherapy from Brunel University. Career After initial success at junior level, including two gold and one silver medal in the 2003 World Junior Championships in Athens, Fell nearly gave up the sport in 2006 when, due to a series of shin splint injuries, her funding was cut by UK Sport. She described this as giving her "the kick up the arse I needed", and, forced to stop training at the University of Bath's facilities due to the cost of living in the city, she moved back home with her parents, funding her continued training with three part- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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