The Hungarian women’s team triumphs at the World Modern Pentathlon Championships

According to nlcafe.hu, Zsófia Földházi, Tamara Alekszejev and Sarolta Kovács won the women’s team event at the 2017 World Modern Pentathlon Championships held in Cairo. Moreover, Zsófia Földházi and Róbert Kasza both won silver medals in the individual events. With these three medals, Hungary finished in third place of the medal table.

The final of the women’s individual event featured the same athletes and it started on Saturday with fencing. Zsófia Földházi did outstandingly well with a 20/15 win-loss rate, which was a good base for the other events. She finished in third place in 200 m swimming and performed well in the equestrian event as well.

Before the last event (running and shooting), Földházi was in 2^nd place, Kovács in 7^th and Alekszejev in 11^th. Zsófia Földházi managed to keep her position, thus winning a silver medal, while Alekszejev and Kovács finished in 7^th and 8^th places. When it came to the team event, the three girls joined their forces and came before everyone else.