The women's
pentathlon at the IAAF World Indoor Championships had been hyped as one of the biggest head - to - head clashes of the weekend, with defending champion Jessica Ennis taking on world heptathlon champion Tatyana Chernova.
This came a year after winning a silver in the modern
pentathlon at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.
1912 Prodigious Jim Thorpe won gold medals in decathlon and
pentathlon at Stockholm but, accused of professionalism, was forced to return them.
Not exact matches
Dick Ellis, Army master sergeant of Attleboro, Mass., ran third in 40,000 - meter cross-country
at Bern, Switzerland to help U.S. win five - nation
pentathlon, help himself finish second with total 5,041 points in contest.
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.
Susan, 12, set an AAU Junior Olympic record for the midget girls» division (ages 11 - 12) of the
pentathlon with 2,775 points
at the National Junior Olympics meet in Wichita.
Kate French believes the experience of competing
at her first Olympic Games last summer is starting to rub off after she clinched her maiden modern
pentathlon World Cup win in Cairo this weekend.
... Two - time Olympian Samantha Murray will lead a 10 - strong British charge
at next month's Modern
Pentathlon World Championships...
... Olympians Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke showed all their experience as they claimed the British Modern
Pentathlon titles
at the...
Two - time Olympian Samantha Murray will lead a 10 - strong British charge
at next month's Modern
Pentathlon World Championships in Cairo.
... Kate French admitted her delight
at her sixth place finish
at the Modern
Pentathlon World Championships, but was left wondering wh...
Closer to home, and notching their equal second - best medal haul
at the world indoors, Great Britain & Northern Ireland's total of seven medals courtesy of the sprint hurdles,
pentathlon, 400m, 800m, 4x400m, 1500m and 3000m showcased a versatility and strength in depth that bodes well for the inaugural Athletics World Cup.
According to a statement on the Ukrainian athletics federation website, the 25 - year - old tested positive for the substance — which was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list from January 1 of this year —
at last month's IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland where she claimed
pentathlon silver behind Canada's Brianne Theisen - Eaton.
The Ukrainian athlete is reported to have tested positive for the substance
at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland where she claimed
pentathlon silver
Preston's Samantha Murray won modern
pentathlon silver in front of the home crowds
at London 2012 and finished ninth four years later
at Rio 2016.
In a continuing series, Steve Smythe looks
at the history of events
at the Olympics and this time it is the turn of the women's
pentathlon and heptathlon
An All - American discus thrower, Dan has also competed
at the highest levels of Olympic lifting, Highland Games and the Weight
Pentathlon, an event in which he holds the American record.
The Do - Deca
Pentathlon premiered
at this year's SXSW Film Festival and has been picked up by Red Flag Releasing and Fox Searchlight.
Together they have worked on the upcoming films Jeff, Who Lives
at Home, which Paramount Vantage will release in March, and The Do — Deca —
Pentathlon, which is currently in post — production.
The first Native American sports hero, Jim Thorpe was hailed as the greatest athlete in the world after he won the
pentathlon and decathlon
at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.