2012 in modern pentathlon

This article lists the main modern pentathlon events and their results for 2012.

• August 11 & 12: 2012 Summer Olympics in London at the Copper Box Arena, the London Aquatics Centre, & Greenwich Park^[1]
  • Men: David Svoboda; Cao Zhongrong; Ádám Marosi
  • Women: Laura Asadauskaitė; Samantha Murray; Yane Marques

• May 7 – 13: 2012 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Rome^[2]
  • Individual winners: Aleksander Lesun (m) / Mhairi Spence (f)
  • Men's Team Relay winners:  South Korea (Jung Jin-hwa, HONG Jin-woo, & Hwang Woo-jin)
  • Women's Team Relay winners:  Germany (Lena Schöneborn, Janine Kohlmann, & Annika Schleu)
  • Mixed Team Relay winners:  Ukraine (Ganna Buriak & Oleksandr Mordasov)
  • Men's Team winners:  Italy (Riccardo De Luca, Nicola Benedetti, & Pier Paolo Petroni)
  • Women's Team winners:  Great Britain (Heather Fell, Samantha Murray, & Mhairi Spence)
• September 3 – 8: 2012 World Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships in Drzonków^[3]
  • Junior Individual winners: Valentin Belaud (m) / Margaux Isaksen (f)
  • Junior Men's Team Relay winners:  South Korea (Kim Dae-beom, KIM Soeng-jin, & KIM Kyeong-pil)
  • Junior Women's Team Relay winners:  United States (Samantha Achterberg, Margaux Isaksen, & Isabella Isaksen)
  • Junior Mixed Team Relay winners:  Latvia (Olga Sislova & Pavels Svecovs)
  • Junior Men's Team winners:  Russia (Ilya Shugarov, Dmitry Lukach, & Maksim Kustov)
  • Junior Women's Team winners:  United States (Samantha Achterberg, Isabella Isaksen, & Margaux Isaksen)
• September 19 – 23: 2012 World Youth Modern Pentathlon Championships in Tata^[4]
  • Youth Individual winners: Oleg Naumov (m) / Ieva Serapinaitė (f)
  • Youth Men's Team Relay winners:  Germany (Fabian Liebig, Marvin Faly Dogue, & Christian Zillekens)
  • Youth Women's Team Relay winners:  Russia (Ekaterina Makarova, Elizabet Rodriguez, & Sofia Serkina)
  • Youth Mixed Team Relay winners:  Russia (Ekaterina Vdovenko & Oleg Naumov)
  • Youth Men's Team winners:  Hungary (Norbert Horvath, Krisztián Strobl, & Tamas Bence Frohlich)
  • Youth Women's Team winners:  Russia (Ekaterina Vdovenko, Ekaterina Makarova, & Sofia Serkina)

• June 6 – 13: 2012 European Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships in Székesfehérvár^[5]
  • Junior Individual winners: Lukas Kontrimavicius (m) / Sarolta Kovács (f)
  • Junior Men's Team Relay winners:  Russia (Maksim Kustov, Dmitry Lukach, & Danil Kalimullin)
  • Junior Women's Team Relay winners:  Great Britain (Rebecca Wain, Kerry Prise, & Kate French)
  • Junior Mixed Team Relay winners:  France (Adele Stern & Valentin Belaud)
  • Junior Men's Team winners:  Russia (Ilya Shugarov, Dmitry Lukach, & Maksim Kustov)
  • Junior Women's Team winners:  Russia (Nadezhda Popova, Angelina Marochkina, & Svetlana Lebedeva)
• July 4 – 10: 2012 European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Sofia^[6]
  • Individual winners: Riccardo De Luca (m) / Laura Asadauskaitė (f)
  • Men's Team Relay winners:  Russia (Ilia Frolov, Sergey Karyakin, & Alexander Savkin)
  • Women's Team Relay winners:  Russia (Svetlana Lebedeva, Donata Rimšaitė, & Anna Savchenko)
  • Mixed Team Relay winners:  Belarus (Anastasiya Prokopenko & Mihail Prokopenko)
  • Men's Team winners:  Russia (Ilia Frolov, Andrey Moiseyev, & Aleksander Lesun)
  • Women's Team winners:  Russia (Evdokia Gretchichnikova, Ekaterina Khuraskina, & Donata Rimšaitė)
• July 18 – 23: 2012 European Youth "A" Modern Pentathlon Championships in Sofia^[7]
  • Youth Individual winners: Sebastian Reder (m) / Tatsiana Rahachova (f)
  • Youth Men's Team Relay winners:  Hungary (Tamas Bence Frohlich, Krisztian Strobl, & Norbert Horvath)
  • Youth Women's Team Relay winners:  France (Marie Oteiza, Pulcherie Delhalle, & Julie Belhamri)
  • Youth Mixed Team Relay winners: Paula Markowska & Oleg Naumov)
  • Youth Men's Team winners:  Hungary (Norbert Horvath, Krisztian Strobl, & Tamas Bence Frohlich)
  • Youth Women's Team winners:  France (Manon Barbaza, Marie Oteiza, & Pulcherie Delhalle)
• August 16 – 18: 2012 European Youth "B" Modern Pentathlon Championships in Warsaw^[8]
  • Youth Individual winners: Alexandr Stepachev (m) / Eilidh Prise (f)
  • Youth Men's Team Relay winners:  Russia (Alexandr Stepachev, Danila Glavatskikh, & Serge Baranov)
  • Youth Women's Team Relay winners:  Hungary (Anna Zs. Toth, Rebeka Ormandi, & Beáta Jozan)
  • Youth Mixed Team Relay winners:  Great Britain (Eilidh Prise & Henry Choong)
  • Youth Men's Team winners:  Russia (Serge Baranov, Danila Glavatskikh, & Alexandr Stepachev)
  • Youth Women's Team winners:  Great Britain (Naomi Craig, Francesca Summers, & Eilidh Prise)
• October 2 – 7: 2012 Pan American & South American Modern Pentathlon Championships in Buenos Aires^[9]
  • Individual winners: Jorge Abraham Camacho (m) / Yane Marques (f)
  • Men's Team winners:  Argentina (Nestor Villamayor, José Pereyra, & Emmanuel Zapata)
  • Women's Team winners:  Argentina (Evelyn Prantera, Jessica Plaza, & Barbara Cordero)
• October 31 – November 4: 2012 Asian Modern Pentathlon Championships in Kaohsiung^[10]
  • Individual #1 winners: Jun Woong-tae (m) / HAN Song-yi (f)
  • Individual #2 winners: Kim Dae-beom (m) / ZHU Wenjing (f)

• March 8 – 11: MPWC #1 in Charlotte^[11]
  • Individual winners: Ilia Frolov (m) / Lena Schöneborn (f)
• March 15 – 18: MPWC #2 in Rio de Janeiro^[12]
  • Individual winners: Aleksander Lesun (m) / Élodie Clouvel (f)
• April 12 – 15: MPWC #3 in Százhalombatta^[13]
  • Individual winners: Nicola Benedetti (m) / Amélie Cazé (f)
• April 19 – 22: MPWC #4 in Rostov^[14]
  • Individual winners: Ilya Shugarov (m) / Anastasiya Prokopenko (f)
• May 26 & 27: MPWC #5 (final) in Chengdu^[15]
  • Individual winners: Ilia Frolov (m) / Laura Asadauskaitė (f)

• Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne Website (UIPM)