Vivienne Meyer of Switzerland and Blanka Bauer of Hungary led the line as 18 athletes certified for the Women’s Closing on the third day of the UIPM 2026 Pentathlon Junior World Championships in Kaunas (LTU).
Meyer (SUI) was a runaway winner in Semi-final A, jogging to the end line as she certified comfortably for the Closing forward of Chloe Johnson of Nice Britain and Coline Flavin of France. There was a batch of qualifiers behind them earlier than Martina Rutkauskaite of host nation Lithuania snared the ninth and last place.
Meyer (SUI) gained the Fencing Direct Elimination after a High 2 battle with Samira Abzalova of Uzbekistan, with Flavin (FRA) and Johnson (GBR) each reaching the High 4. The highest performer in Impediment Racing and the solely athlete to interrupt the 30sec mark was Zeina Amer of Egypt, though Meyer (SUI) and Orsolya Varga of Hungary breached 32sec.
Swimming was predictably dominated by Wakana Uchiyama of Japan (1min 01.81sec), however Hanna Jakubowska of Poland additionally impressed with a low 1:02. Josefine Unterberger of Germany recorded the finest Laser Run time of 11:19.24, however fell simply in need of the prime 9, the place her team-mate Charlotte Keister (GER) rose two locations to seventh and Rutkauskaite (LTU) held on to ninth.
Semi-final B noticed a exceptional Laser Run comeback from Bauer (HUN), who began in 14th and rose all the solution to the prime of the subject to cross first, XXsec forward of Pentathlon World Cup medallist Ganah Elgindy (EGY) and European junior champion Florina Jurt (SUI).
Fencing couldn’t have gone higher for Elgindy’s team-mate Jana Attia (EGY), who fended off Florina Jurt (SUI) in the High 2 with team-mates Amaya El-Masri (GER) and Nadja Farmand (GER) additionally reaching the High 4. Like Amer (EGY) earlier in the day, Attia (EGY) stood out in Impediment Racing with an virtually equivalent time, with Diana Rajncsak (HUN) and Katharina Jurt (SUI) simply on the different facet of 30sec.
Guste Peciulyte (LTU) took a significant stride in the direction of the Closing with a quickest Swimming efficiency of 58.37, with Eva Marsh (GBR) additionally breaking the 1min barrier. That wasn’t fairly sufficient for the British athlete to earn one other race on Monday, as she proved unable to catch Nadja Farmand (GER) and needed to accept tenth.
Watch and comply with
The UIPM 2026 Pentathlon Junior & U17 World Championships happen from July 23-29, with livestream of the Junior Semi-finals and Finals obtainable to observe free on YouTube primarily based on the following schedule (TV instances listed in Central European Summer time Time):
Sunday July 26
- U17 Women’s Qualification
- Junior Males’s Semi-finals
- Semi-final A (09:00)
- Semi-final B (15:00)
Monday July 27
- U17 Males’s Closing
- Junior Finals
- Women’s Closing (09:00)
- Males’s Closing (14:00)
Tuesday July 28
- U17 Women’s Closing
- Junior Women’s Relay & Males’s Relay
Wednesday July 29
- U17 Combined Relay
- Junior Combined Relay
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