Will the Lithuanian Donata Rimšaitė win a 3rd consecutive World Cup Final?  Will Ilia Frolov win on home soil?

After 5 gruelling events around the world the top 36 Men and Women have qualified for the World Cup Final to take place in Moscow, Russia on 19-20 June 2010. This is a unique chance for the athletes to stamp their authority on the Modern Pentathlon World leading into the World Championships.

Women's Finals - 19th June 2010 starting 16:30 local time
Rimsaite who will be looking to create history and win 3 straight World Cup Finals will again continue her famous duel with Olympic Champion Lena Schoneborn (GER) who has remarkably won 3 of the 5 World Cups this year. Also in contention for the Gold is current World Champion Qian Chen (CHN) who had a successful return from injury at World Cup #5.

Men's Finals - 20th June 2010 starting 16:30 local time
2009 Champion’s and current World #1’s Adam Marosi (HUN) and Donata Rimsaite (LTU) will be looking to defend their crown and cement their position as the world best. However Marosi will be pushed to the limit by David Svoboda (CZE) who goes into the event with the most points from the 5 World Cups and veteran, Olympic Silver Medallist Andrejus Zadneprovskis (LTU) who accumulated the second most.

The Russian Team will very strong, headed by Double Olympic Champion Andrey Moiseev and World Cup #5 Champion and World #4 Ilia Frolov, also the tours in form athlete Rookie Aleksander Lesun who has won 2 medals at his first 3 World Cup’s. The Women’s teams hopes will be pinned on World #3 Evdokia Gretchichnikova who will be looking to continue her strong 2010 form.

Fans around the world will have the chance to watch these and other great athletes and share in the excitement of Modern Pentathlon. The UIPM will broadcast the finals LIVE on Internet TV at pentathlon.org on 19 and 20 June at 16:30 local time (GMT +4 hours). The broadcast will feature highlights from the fencing and swimming events as well as live coverage of the riding and combined events.

The UIPM TV Team led by commentator Adrian Battersby will present the second Half of the Riding Competition LIVE and will then show some highlights from the Fencing and Swimming events before showing the Combined Event LIVE. The webcast will begin at 4.15pm Local time. Please see www.pentathlon.org or www.247.tv for further schedule details and to be able to watch - Just click on the link at the top of the home page of www.pentathlon.org Highlight Replays for the Fence, Swim and Ride and As-Live Combined Event Replays will be available to view on www.pentathlon.org.