First place at the 2016 Ukrainian Modern Pentathlon Championships

The Ukrainian Modern Pentathlon Championships for boys and girls were successfully held from 12 to 14 November.

The events were held at the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Kyiv School of Higher Sports Excellence.

The championships drew an unprecedented number of participants - 320 athletes of various age groups from Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Sievierodonetsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk Oblast and Moldova.

Participants competed in the tetrathlon, triathle and biathle programmes.

Moldovan athlete Valentin Samsonov took first place in the oldest age group (born 1999-2000), who competed in the tetrathlon, with a final total of 1140 points.