Jane Frederick is No. 1
pentathlete in the U.S., but she wants to be first in the world — and to score 5,000 points
Not exact matches
Oxford
pentathletes are next
in action at The Ernst & Young Modern Pentathlon Varsity match, which takes place at Tonbridge School, Kent, on April 4th and 5th 2014.
The club caters for complete beginners and experienced competitors alike and has had great success right up to international level; ex Oxford
pentathletes Steph Cook and Emily de Riel took Olympic gold and silver
in the women's event at Sydney 2000 and the club has produced several other international athletes.
This BUCS event will be held
in the sports hall, cricket school, and on the running track from around 7.30 am to 4 pm, before the
pentathletes move to the Rosenblatt swimming pool at 4 pm.
For modern
pentathlete Samantha Murray, it's the Olympic Games
in Sydney
in 2000 and Athens four years later which will forever be etched
in her mind.
The guest panel includes former British modern
pentathlete and Olympic champion Stephanie Cook MBE, RFU board member and Director Deborah Griffin OBE, former British rower and Olympic bronze medallist Sarah Winckless and Fiona Macklin who rowed for Cambridge University Women's Boat Club
in this year's infamous Women's Boat Race.
Ed is an Eton and Oxford graduate and modern
pentathlete with floppy hair; JJ is a US traffic cop and cage - wrestler (like wrestling, but
in a cage); Jarvis is, we are told, «used to winning» despite his being a US rugby international; Joey plays soccer, loves his mom, and says he used to be a street - fighter; Wolé is a London fireman, amateur boxer and brick shithouse; Murray is a kite - surfing hippy with more serotonin than all the rest of them put together.