The first two weeks of training are completely free! Come to whatever training session you want (see training timetable below) and get to know the sport and the club 🙂
Many people’s first real taste of competing. Novice Varsity is a tetrathlon competition against our rivals at Oxford. This year it will be held in Oxford (date tbc), with the competition held during the day and a dinner and night out to celebrate afterwards.
Modern Pentathlon is an Olympic and Full Blue sport comprising running, swimming, shooting, fencing and obstacle course racing. We have a wide range of abilities – anyone is welcome to join us whether they have never done any of the sports before or are a seasoned pentathlete.
Epée fencing, one hit only!
200m freestyle.
5x600m running with 10m laser shooting in between (similar to skiing biathlon).
70m dash with 8 obstacles.

We train for all 5 sports every week during term time. Details are in the weekly email but a general timetable can be found below.
Training Timetable
Many fun competitions leading to Varsity against Oxford.










"The most perfect athletes are the pentathletes because in their bodies strength and speed are combined in beautiful harmony"
Aristotle - Pentathlon admirer
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