Julian Drew
AFTER staging the extremely successful world cross country championships in March, Stellenbosch once again gets the opportunity to put Cape Town’s Olympic bid on the map when it stages the Modern Pentathlon World Cup on Saturday.
Olympian Claud Cloete of Cape Town, who finished 15th in Atlanta out of the 32- strong field, will be looking to home crowd support to boost his chances in the event.
”The crowd should be worth at least five places,” said Cloete of the competition which features 16 of the world’s best modern pentathletes, including Olympic champion Aleksandr Parygin of Kazakhstan and 1994 and 1995 world champion and world cup-winner Dmitri Svatkovsky of Russia.
The competitors will take part in pistol shooting, fencing, swimming, equestrian and cross country running events in one day.
”I am still strong from Atlanta and with skills events like fencing and show jumping anything can happen on the day,” says Cloete.
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