The pathway for equestrian to be replaced by obstacle racing after the Paris 2024 Olympics was opened today following a historic - and controversial - vote at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Congress to add it to the disciplines available.

Athletes including reigning Olympic champions Joe Choong and Kate French have written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the eve of the pivotal International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Congress calling on it to help create a commission to examine necessary reforms in the sport.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has revealed that it has received 61 proposals for a new fifth discipline to replace riding, and claimed its Working Group has made "significant progress" during the first quarter of the year.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has forced the Modern Pentathlon Association of Denmark (MPADK) to go through the UIPM Court of Arbitration first after the Danish body filed an application for a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding the UIPM's decision to remove riding from the sport's programme after Paris 2024.

A series of modern pentathletes, including many medallists from the last four Olympics, have joined together to call on the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) to find a solution to the riding controversy.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has appointed Olympic champions Janusz Peciak and Stephanie Cook to a 10-strong Riding Working Group formed to address concerns about horse welfare in modern pentathlon.

Germany’s modern pentathlon team coach Kim Raisner has been disqualified from the rest of the Olympics for "appearing to strike a horse with her fist."

Belarus won the first gold medal of the European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Nizhny Novgorod as Volha Silkina and Anastasia Prokopenko distanced themselves from the opposition in the women's relay.

Twelve years after he won his first International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) world title, Hungary’s 36-year-old Adam Marosi added a second today in Cairo, earning an automatic quota place for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in so doing.

Olympic silver medallist Pavlo Tymoshchenko believes the International Modern Pentathlon Union’s (UIPM) 90-minute format proposed for the Paris 2024 Olympics will create "another wave of confusion" and make the sport "even more incomprehensible".

Russian modern pentathlon coach Valery Ilyin has died at the age of 72 due to COVID-19.

British duo Kerenza Bryson and Myles Pillage won the first title of the week at the European Modern Pentathlon Championships as they claimed gold in the mixed relay competition in Bath in England.

Newly crowned women's modern pentathlon world champion Anastasiya Prokopenko from Belarus has formally received her bronze medal from the Beijing 2008 Olympics, after the original winner Viktoriya Tereshchuk of Ukraine tested positive for a banned substance.

France’s Simon Casse and Brice Loubet earned the men’s relay gold medal at the European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Székesfehérvár.

Rio 2016 Olympic champion Alexander Lesun of Russia has been awarded the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Senior Male Athlete of the Year award following his stunning victory in the Brazilian city.