"Mission accomplished" at Medway, says Bartu
By Mike Rowbottom
August 1 - Britain's performance at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Medway Park, where two of their team earned Olympic qualification places, represented "mission accomplished" as far Jan Bartu, the Pentathlon GB performance director, was concerned.
August 1 - Britain's performance at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Medway Park, where two of their team earned Olympic qualification places, represented "mission accomplished" as far Jan Bartu, the Pentathlon GB performance director, was concerned.
July 31 - Britain's Freyja Prentice joined teammate Jamie Cooke by achieving the qualifying standard for London 2012 at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships at Medway Park today.
July 30 - Jamie Cooke became the first British modern pentathlete to achieve the London 2012 Olympic qualification standard when he finished fourth in the European Championships at Medway Park.
July 29 - Britain will have four women in Sunday's (July 31) final of the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Kent, where the top-eight finishers will achieve the London 2012 qualification standard.
July 29 - British pentathlete Sam Weale claims persistent technical problems with the laser shooting system controversially introduced to top-level competition this year have turned his sport into a "lottery" which is putting the Olympic ambitions of athletes at risk.
July 28 - Britain's Jamie Cooke made a stunning start to his European Championships campaign today by smashing his own world record for the modern pentathlon 200 metres freestyle.
July 11 - Mhairi Spence (pictured) narrowly missed out on adding a second medal to the one won the previous day by her British team-mate Nick Woodbridge in the Modern Pentathlon World Cup final in London, the Olympic test event.
July 9 - Nick Woodbridge made the most of the Olympic test event in London by becoming the first British man to win a World Cup Final medal, while his 20-year-old team mate Jamie Cooke, who eventually finished ninth, broke his own modern pentathlon world record for the swim.
May 31 - Jamie Cooke, Britain's 20-year-old modern pentathlete, has moved a step nearer to competing at the London 2012 Games by qualifying to compete at his first World Cup final.
May 3 - Mhairi Spence (pictured) and Freyja Prentice, already medallists in this year's modern pentathlon World Cup series, will both compete at the third World Cup of the year in Hungary next week.
April 16 - Freyja Prentice won the first modern pentathlon World Cup medal of her career today when she took bronze at Sassari in Italy despite having had her preparations undermined by a succession of chest infections.
March 26 - Moscow will host this year's Modern Pentathlon World Championships after Cairo dropped out because of the recent political instability in Egypt, it has been announced.
February 23 - Heather Fell (pictured), the Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medallist, and Mhairi Spence, bronze medallist at last year's Medway World Cup, will head the British challenge in the first Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the year which starts at Palm Springs tomorrow - and marks the senior debut for laser shooting in the final run/shoot discipline.
February 12 - A World Cup event in Cairo next month which was to offer qualifying points for London 2012 has been cancelled because of the current situation in Egypt, it has been announced.
February 7 - Pentathlon GB has named UK Sport's Jon Austin, a former RAF PT instructor, as the man who will oversee the sport's quest to continue its medal-winning run at the London 2012 Games in the role of chief executive.
