World Championships in Modern Pentathlon

Under the umbrella organization Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), world championships in modern pentathlon were organized for the first time in 1949 . In 1949 the World Championships in Stockholm started with two competitions for men in the individual and in the team, in 1981 in London the women also competed in the modern pentathlon for the first time in the individual and in the team. In 1989 a relay competition was introduced for the men and 1992 for the women, in 2010 a mixed relay was introduced as the last competition, so that the official program currently includes seven competitions.

Venues

year	venue
	Men	Women
1949	Stockholm	-
1950	Bern	-
1951	Helsingborg	-
1953	Santo Domingo	-
1954	Budapest	-
1955	Zurich	-
1957	Stockholm	-
1958	Aldershot	-
1959	Hershey	-
1961	Moscow	-
1962	Mexico city	-
1963	Magglingen	-
1965	Leipzig	-
1966	Melbourne	-
1967	Jonkoping	-
1969	Budapest	-
1970	Warendorf	-
1971	San Antonio	-
1973	London	-
1974	Moscow	-
1975	Mexico city	-
1977	San Antonio	-
1978	Jonkoping	-
1979	Budapest	-
1981	Zielona Góra	London
1982	Rome	Compiègne
1983	Warendorf	Gothenburg
1984	-	Hörsilm
1985	Melbourne	Montreal
1986	Montecatini Terme
1987	Bensheim
1988	-	Warsaw
1989	Budapest	Vienna
1990	Lahti	Linkoping
1991	San Antonio	Sydney
1992	Winterthur	Budapest
1993	Darmstadt
1994	Sheffield
1995	Basel
1996	Rome	Siena
1997	Sofia	Moscow
1998	Mexico city
1999	Budapest
2000	Pesaro
2001	Millfield
2002	San Francisco
2003	Pesaro
2004	Moscow
2005	Warsaw
2006	Guatemala City
2007	Berlin
2008	Budapest
2009	London
2010	Cheng you
2011	Moscow
2012	Rome
2013	Kaohsiung
2014	Warsaw
2015	Berlin
2016	Moscow
2017	Cairo
2018	Mexico city
2019	Budapest
2020	Cancun
2021	Minsk
2022	Xiamen

Medal table

As of April 29, 2020

space	country				Total
1	Hungary	55	46	33	134
2	Poland	35	17th	21st	73
3	Soviet Union	32	25th	14th	71
4th	Russia	20th	30th	19th	69
5	United Kingdom	17th	20th	15th	52
6th	Germany with FRG and GDR	16	20th	24	60
7th	France	16	12	16	44
8th	Sweden	10	5	11	26th
9	Italy	9	17th	17th	43
10	Belarus	8th	9	15th	32
11	Lithuania	8th	8th	10	26th
12	United States	6th	6th	9	21st
13	South Korea	6th	4th	9	19th
14th	Czech Republic	5	10	11	26th
15th	People's Republic of China	5	9	6th	20th
16	Ukraine	5	3	8th	16
17th	Denmark	5	1	3	9
18th	Egypt	3	4th	2	9
19th	Mexico	2	1	1	5
20th	Canada	1	0	0	1
21st	Finland	0	9	3	12
22nd	Switzerland	0	4th	2	6th
23	Czechoslovakia	0	1	3	6th
24	Brazil	0	1	2	3
	Latvia	0	1	2	3
26th	Argentina	0	1	0	1
27	Bulgaria	0	0	2	1
	Romania	0	0	2	1
29	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala	0	0	1	1
Total		264	264	264	792

Most successful medalists

space	Surname	country	From	To				total
01	Dorota Idzi	Poland	1985	2000	16	2	6th	24
02	Iwona Kowalewska	Poland	1987	1998	13	2	2	17th
03	Anna Sulima	Poland	1988	2000	12	2	1	15th
04th	András Balczó	Hungary	1958	1971	10	7th	2	19th
05	Igor Novikov	Soviet Union	1955	1965	9	5	1	15th
06th	Viktor Horváth	Hungary	2001	2007	8th	4th	-	12
07th	Gábor Balogh	Hungary	1998	2007	8th	3	-	11
08th	László Fábián	Hungary	1983	1994	6th	5	2	13
09	Zsuzsanna Vörös	Hungary	1998	2009	6th	4th	6th	16
010	Pavel Lednyov	Soviet Union	1965	1978	6th	4th	2	14th
011	Ákos Kállai	Hungary	1997	2006	6th	1	1	8th
012	Lars Hall	Sweden	1949	1953	6th	-	-	6th
013	Lena Schöneborn	Germany	2005	2015	5	5	4th	14th
014th	Attila Mizsér	Hungary	1982	1993	5	5	1	11
015th	Anatoly Starostin	Soviet Union	1979	1990	5	4th	2	13
016	Borys Onyshchenko	Soviet Union	1967	1974	5	2	4th	11
017th	Janusz Pyciak-Peciak	Poland	1977	1981	5	2	-	7th
018th	Sándor Fülep	Hungary	2001	2007	5	2	-	7th
019th	Attila Kálnoki Kis	Hungary	1989	1995	5	1	-	6th
020th	Chen Qian	People's Republic of China	2009	2016	4th	6th	2	12
021st	Paulina Boenisz	Poland	1998	2009	4th	5	4th	13
022nd	Mhairi Spence	United Kingdom	2006	2013	4th	4th	-	8th
023	Ferenc Török	Hungary	1961	1967	4th	3	3	10
024	Yelisaveta Suvorova	Russia	1993	2001	4th	3	1	8th
025th	Stephanie Cook	United Kingdom	1998	2001	4th	3	1	8th
026th	Edyta Małoszyc	Poland	1992	2008	4th	2	2	8th
027	Ádám Marosi	Hungary	2008	2014	4th	1	4th	9
028	Eric Walther	Germany	2002	2007	4th	1	2	8th
029	Samantha Murray	United Kingdom	2010	2014	4th	1	1	6th
030th	Péter Sárfalvi	Hungary	1995	1999	4th	1	-	5
030th	Amélie Cazé	France	2007	2010	4th	1	-	5
032	Bea Simóka	Hungary	1998	2003	4th	-	3	7th
033	István Móna	Hungary	1963	1967	4th	-	-	4th
033	Eva Fjellerup	Denmark	1990	1995	4th	-	-	4th

Web links

Commons : Modern Pentathlon World Championships  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.pentathlon.org - official website of the UIPM
• www.pentathlondeutschland.de - German Association for Modern Pentathlon
• www.sport-complete.desport-complete / sportarten / index_sportarten.htm
• www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/service/datenbanken/wettkampfresultate/results