The UIPM 2025 Yearbook · USAP Multisport

The UIPM 2025 Yearbook

The UIPM's official Yearbook is an excellent synopsis of the season, from new developments in the sport to event recaps you can read all about this incredible sport here.

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Modern Pentathlon did not just change its format; it changed its stage. The season became defined by an indoor evolution that brought the sport closer to an arena product: compact, controllable, high-energy and designed to enhance the experience for spectators, broadcasters and athletes.

The key enabler was the full integration of Obstacle alongside Direct Elimination Fencing, disciplines that can be built and presented with theatre-like precision inside major venues. This shift aligned closely with UIPM’s strategic focus on entertainment value and youth appeal, allowing competitions to move into modern indoor arenas where lighting, sound and presentation could be fully controlled.

Future Pentathlon isn’t a one-dimensional indoor concept. It is three-dimensional. It is outdoors, it is indoors and it is iconic — the sport can now be staged in vast stadia, in compact basketball- style arenas and on the ground in front of world- famous landmarks. Anything, anywhere, is possible. Kaunas became the defining proof point of the 2025 season. Staged at Žalgiris Arena, the UIPM 2025 Pentathlon World Championships delivered a single-venue spectacle that reimagined how the sport could be experienced live. The Lithuanian organisers built on the blueprint of their Hungarian counterparts, who had already broken the mould with a captivating indoor UIPM Pentathlon World Cup Budapest.

Attached is the full yearbook.

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