The 2026 season bought off to a charming begin in Egypt’s historic capital because the Ladies’s Qualification kicked the UIPM 2026 Pentathlon World Cup Cairo into prompt excessive gear.
There was a bit slice of historical past and quite a lot of pleasure for the Jurt household as Switzerland’s spectacular sisters led the way in which on quite a few fronts. World No.14 and Paris 2024 Olympian Anna Jurt (SUI) topped the listing of qualifiers, profitable Warmth B with 1,415 factors, as 36 athletes in whole made it safely via to the Semi-finals.
Anna’s youthful siblings shared the limelight as the dual combo of Florina Jurt (SUI) and Katharina Jurt (SUI) additionally progressed. Within the course of, Florina set a brand new world document in the Impediment self-discipline with a blistering time of 27.68sec.
Comfortably among the many main qualifiers was reigning Olympic champion Michelle Gulyas of Hungary, who tailored easily to the brand new format (decreased Swimming distance and further taking pictures in Laser Run). Gulyas (HUN) might be joined in the Semi-finals by three team-mates in Blanka Guzi, Emma Meszaros and Rita Erdos.
Final 12 months’s season-opener in Cairo (EGY) proved fertile floor for Unbiased Impartial Athletes and 2026 kicked off on the identical be aware as Viktoria Sazonova (AIN) completed 1st in Qualification Group A with 1,414 factors, alongside 4 compatriots, UIPM 2024 World Cup Budapest champion Mariya Gnedtchik (AIN) amongst them as she made a stellar return from damage.
Fourteen nations might be represented in the Semi-finals with veterans and newcomers amongst them. Final 12 months’s UIPM U17 World Championships bronze medalist Tatiana Thomatos of South Africa was amongst these to qualify, a couple of weeks after her sixteenth birthday.
Click on here for a full listing of the athletes who certified for the Women’s Semi-finals.
Watch and observe
UIPM 2026 Pentathlon World Cup Cairo takes place from April 8-12, with reside stream of the Semi-finals and Finals accessible free on UIPM’s YouTube streaming service.
Every day schedule with stream begin occasions (Central European Summer season Time) as follows:
- Thursday April 9: Males’s Qualification | Ladies’s Fencing Seeding Spherical
- Friday April 10: Ladies’s Semi-final A (11:00); Ladies’s Semi-final B (15:00) | Males’s Fencing Seeding Spherical
- Saturday April 11: Males’s Semi-final A (11:00); Males’s Semi-final B (15:00)
- Sunday April 12: Ladies’s Last (10:00), Males’s Last (15:00).
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