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| Full name | Laura Heredia Vives | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 January 2000 [1] Barcelona, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Modern pentathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Laura Heredia Vives [2] [lower-alpha 1] (born 31 January 2000) is a Spanish modern pentathlete. She was a silver medalist at the 2023 European Games and competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
She became the European under-24 champion in 2022. [3] That year, she finished ninth at the World Championships. Her 2023 results included a seventh place at the World Cup in Cairo and fourth place at the Ankara World Cup event. [4] At the 2023 European Games in Krakow, she won a silver medal in the individual event. [5]
She became the first Spanish woman to qualify for the modern pentathlon at the Olympic Games. [6] She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [7]
From Barcelona, she has worked with biomechanics at Sant Cugat High Performance Centre to help with her sporting performances. [8] Her brother Aleix Heredia is also a modern pentathlete. [9]
The modern pentathlon is an Olympic multisport that currently consists of fencing, freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, laser pistol shooting, and cross country running. Equestrian will be replaced by a form of obstacle course racing at the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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Mhairi Spence is a British modern pentathlete. She has won a series of medals at European and World Championships, but was not selected for the 2008 Summer Olympics by the British team due to the limited number of places available. After considering retiring in 2009, she returned to the sport and in 2012 she won gold medals in both the individual and the team events at the 2012 World Championships, and qualified to be chosen for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Joanna Muir is a British modern pentathlete, who was part of the British squad that won the team event at the 2019 European Modern Pentathlon Championships, and came second in the women's relay event at the 2016 World Modern Pentathlon Championships. She came second at the opening event of the 2021 Modern Pentathlon World Cup. Muir competed in the modern pentathlon event at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics.
Aleix Heredia Vives is a Spanish modern pentathlete. He competed in the men's event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Switzerland competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Swiss athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games edition of the modern era, except for a partial boycott of Melbourne 1956 in protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Ukraine competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era and the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A total of 140 athletes competed amid the Russian invasion, the lowest number in the history of Ukraine's participation in the games.
Modern pentathlon competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile were held between October 21 and 27, 2023 at the Las Condes Military School.
Olivia Green is a British modern pentathlete. She won an individual bronze medal at the 2023 European Games and was part of the gold medal winning women's team at the 2022 World Modern Pentathlon Championships. Green was also individual European Under-24 champion in 2021.
Kerenza Bryson is a British modern pentathlete. She won a bronze medal in the women's individual event at the 2023 World Modern Pentathlon Championships and silver in the team competition. Bryson won gold in the individual event at the 2024 European Modern Pentathlon Championships. She also represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Jessica Davis Savner is an American modern pentathlete. She qualified to represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Taishu Sato is a Japanese modern pentathlete. He was a bronze medalist at the 2022 Asian Games and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Giorgio Malan is an Italian modern pentathlete. He won the gold medal at the 2023 European Games and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics winning the bronze medal.
Malak Ismail is an Egyptian modern pentathlete. She was a gold medalist at the 2023 World Modern Pentathlon Championships and competed at the 2024 Olympic Games.
And, finally, competing in the modern pentathlon will be medical student Laura Heredia Vives.
