Editing Modern pentathlon (section)

=== International competitions  ===
A [[World Modern Pentathlon Championships|world championship]] has been held every year since 1949. The competitions now include men and women's individual and team events together with relay events for men and women and, since 2010, a mixed relay event. After much lobby work of the president of the German Modern Pentathlon Federation, Wilhelm Henze, women were for the first time admitted at the world championships in 1977, and at the official world championships in 1981.<ref>Uta Engels: "Now the Problem: Modern Pentathlon for Ladies." Zur Rolle Prof. Dr. Peter-Wilhem Henzes bei der Entwicklung des Modernen Frauenfünfkampfes, in:  [[Arnd Krüger]] & Bernd Wedemeyer (eds.): ''Aus Biographien Sportgeschichte lernen. Festschrift zum 90. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze''. Hoya: Niedersächsisches Institut für Sportgeschichte 2000, S. 47–66. {{ISBN|3-932423-07-0}}</ref>

The [[Modern Pentathlon World Cup]] is an annual series of modern pentathlon competitions, with four events taking place in the regular season and the top 36 female and top 36 male athletes qualifying to compete in the World Cup Final. It was first held in 1999.