Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe has moved one step closer to his third appearance at an Olympic Games after comfortably qualifying for the men’s individual final at the European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Bath, England. The London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympian will compete on Saturday for one of eight men’s Tokyo 2020 qualification places after finishing with […]
Eilidh Prise admits it would be the fulfilment of a lifelong dream if she could earn qualification for her first Olympic Games in the coming days. The Scottish-born 23-year-old, whose mother Trish hails from Dublin, competes in the grounds of her old university tomorrow (9 August) as she aims to reach Sunday’s European Championships women’s […]
Sixteen qualification places at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are at stake as Ireland’s elite pentathletes head across the channel for the 2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships (6-11 August). The competition at the University of Bath has long been identified as the most important of the season for the Irish high-performance unit, with eight Olympic […]
A stunning season-opening performance enabled Natalya Coyle to win her second UIPM Pentathlon World Cup silver medal in Cairo, Egypt today. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic medal hopeful, 28, performed strongly in all events and picked off two of the biggest names in the sport during the Laser Run to claim a satisfying podium finish. The […]
Congrats to all who participated in the New Year Epee 2019. Senior Men: 1st Place – Tom O’Brien 2nd Place – Shane Whelan 3rd Place – Paddy Brennan Senior Women: 1st Place – Igna Gorceva 2nd Place – Sorcha Mellon-Whelan 3rd Place – Alisha Mullen Junior Men: 1st Place – Tim O’Brien 2nd […]
In accordance with the Articles of Association of Modern Pentathlon Association of Ireland (hereafter referred to as Pentathlon Ireland) I hereby give notice that the 2018 Pentathlon Ireland Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Wednesday the 17th of October 2018 in Irish Sports HQ, Irish Sports Campus, Abbotstown, Dublin 15 at 7.00pm. […]
Ireland won four medals on the first day of the UIPM 2018 Laser Run World Championships at Trinity College, including individual silvers in both showpiece events for Kate Coleman Lenehan and Tom O’Brien. Coleman Lenehan kept her composure to win individual silver in the senior women’s race and help secure the team gold with the […]
The Laser Run World Championships will be held in Trinity College Dublin in September 28th-30th, 2018 and will see over 450 competitors, from over 20 countries, compete in this exciting event. Participants will start with a short sprint to the shooting range. From there, using a laser pistol, they shoot their designated target until they […]
Congratulations to our young pentathletes who have had a very successful tetrathlon season! Tetrathlon consists of four of the five phases of Pentathlon. It involves running, riding, swimming and shooting and is a natural pathway to competing in pentathlon. Our rising stars Erika Lowe, Isobel Radford Dodd, Rebecca Lowe, Jack Sargent, James Coonan, Sean McNamara, […]
Irish pentathlon is celebrating another landmark achievement after Natalya Coyle, Eilidh Prise and Sive Brassil joined forces to win women’s team silver at the 2018 ECMP European Championships in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. World No.5 Coyle finished 5th in the individual standings, with Prise 11th and Brassil 21st – all three enjoying their highest-ever finish at senior […]
