More confusion today at the Yth B European relay events. But not falling at the door of GBR Team, we had a good day with the Girls and Boys teams taking Bronze in the team relay event. Full results and photos can now be found at: http://www.pentathlon.by/95-viza.html

After being left in hotel all day and only getting the coach to the venue at 4pm this afternoon and the serious delays due to a power cut and then sunshine too bright sunlight for the targets to function, the combined event managed to get under way.  Aylish Paisley, Kerenza Bryson and Georgina Summers went in the first detail. All three girls had a good combined event and moved themselves up into the top 15 hence ahead of some in the final detail. This confirmed their performances that have been seen in training. Naomi Craig went off 2nd in the final detail and had 2 of the best shoots of her life coming into the 3rd shoot in 1st place but unfortunately she timed out on 50 seconds on the last shoot and dropped herself down to 10th place. 43 girls and 10 teams started the day.

The boys were all in the 2nd detail due to their strong swims with Henry starting in 2nd place and Myles in 4th, William in 21st and Harrison 26th.  The boys had 56 starting with 12 teams. Henry had not his best day on the range and came in to the final shoot in 3rd place but unfortunately stood on the range and dropped to 12th place at the end of the final run. Myles dropped to 29th and William to 24th but the performance of the boys was Harrison Yarnold who moved himself into 8th place with a very strong shoot and run. Overall results:

Harrison Yarnold               8th
Henry Choong                   12th
William Eccleston             24th
Myles Pillage                     29th
Team                                   4th

Naomi Craig                      10th
Kerenza Bryson                 11th
Aylish Paisley                     14th
Georgina Summers           15th
Team                                   2nd        

On 17 April 2013 PGB posted a notice about the safe use of laser pistols.

We reinforce and expand this as follows:

LASER SAFETY

1. Treat all laser pistols as if they were pellet.  ALL RULES RELATING TO PISTOLS – LASER OR PELLET – MUST BE STRICTLY OBSERVED AND WILL BE ENFORCED.
2. NEVER WALK IN THE LINE OF FIRE OF ANY PISTOL, LASER OR PELLET. 
3. All pistols, whether used with pellet or converted for use with laser should always be treated as potentially dangerous weapons.
4. They must never be pointed at anyone else and when not in use should always be either boxed or left unloaded, with breach open, pointed down the range. 
5. Unauthorised removal of pistols from boxes on or off range should be penalised through the rules.
6. Warning notices (designed to reinforce the regime applicable to pellet pistols) should be placed at the range at access points.
7. Be aware of the risk of reflected laser beams from surfaces such as glass, shiny surfaces and mirrors (for instance if used to check on sighting).
8. We will require all laser devices to carry warning labels to that effect.  We are arranging for a supply of appropriate labels for pistol and their boxes.
9. Laser pistols should not be used in continuous beam mode, even for training sessions. 
10. Laser pistols should be kept in locked gun safes to increase parental control of laser devices outside competition and training. Lasers are not toys and should be treated with cautious respect.  We want to eradicate all risk of injury in the home.

In summary, do not use continuous beam unless advised that you should do so – and never point a laser pistol at anyone.

Jon Austin                                                                                             
CEO
Pentathlon GB

Pentathlon GB are looking to recruit a Freelance Coordinator for the South East Region.

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with strong administrative and inter-personal skills to be a freelance co-ordinator who will nurture our future talent in the South East Region and provide the stepping stone to towards their possible inclusion in our World Class Programme.

We envisage this would be a contract for services and fees will be agreed with the successful contractor based on the delivery of agreed outcomes.

If you would like to discuss this further then please speak to Peter Evans on 07855 957924.

To make an application please send your CV and covering letter to eleanor.guest@pentathlongb.org by the closing date of Friday 05 July 13.

Jan Bartu, Performance Director

E-mail: Jan.Bartu@pentathlongb.org, Mobile: +44(0)7921 100859, Office: +44(0)1225 384021

Team Selection Update 10 June 2013

Junior European Championships, Sofia – Bulgaria, 17 – 25 June

Women: Joanna Muir, Eilidh Prise, Kerry Prise and Alice Fitton

Men: Joseph Evans, Luke Tasker, Samuel Curry and Thomas Toolis

Leader: Patricia Prise

Coaches: Istvan Nemeth and Michal Janca

Jan Bartu

Performance Director

On behalf of the Pentathlon GB Performance Team

The Pentathlon GB Ranking List No.2 has been published here.

You can watch the GBR Team live online now at http://www.compentint.hu/live

And the results are being shown on the UIPM Website

Great Britain once again proved the best team at the Biathle World Tour in Tirennia, Italy.

The small team of fourteen athletes came away with 11 medals.

In the younger age groups There were emphatic wins for Sophie Mabbs, Jessica Sutton, Hannah Stanton and Bradley Sutton.

The next World Tour event will be the British round at Weymouth on 6th July. Full results from Italy will appear on the results page.

As one of Britain’s top modern pentathletes and Olympic silver medallist at the 2008 Beijing games, Heather Fell is highly skilled across the disciplines of  fencing, swimming, show jumping and running and shooting. 

However, Fell - who trains locally at the Pentathlon GB High Performance  Centre at the University of Bath - is about to step out of her comfort zone by undertaking the Deloitte Ride Across Britain ultimate cycle challenge to raise money for the Bath Rugby Foundation.