Sporting Digest: Modern Pentathlon

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Sheffield): MEN: Semi-finals: Qualifiers for final: Group A: 1 Kim Myung-Gun (S Kor) 4,389pts; 2 D Svatkovsky (Rus) 4,372; 3 S Gerasimovich (Bela) 4,363; 4 A Toader (Rom) 4,335; 5 A Smirnov (Bela) 4,320; 6 A Tropin (Rus) 4,309; 7 C Ruer (Fr) 4,286; 8 I Ortega (Mex) 4,284. Group B: 1 P-O Danielsson (Swe) 4,554; 2 I Tiidemann (Est) 4,412; 3 V Jesensky (Cz Rep) 4,391; 4 O Stragefeld (Ger) 4,340; 5 G Straskevicius (Lith) 4,331; 6 A Borisenko (Bela) 4,331; 7 F Frontier (Fr) 4,317; 8 S Korshun (Bela) 4,247. Group C: 1 A Zadneprovsks (Lith) 4,478; 2 A Conforto (It) 4,464; 3 S Deleigne (Fr) 4,459; 4 J Martinek (Hung) 4,458; 5 R Phelps (GB) 4,456; 6 L Capalini (Cz Rep) 4,455; 7 G Whyte (GB) 4,453; 8 A Isigipov (Rus) 4,434. Group D: 1 V Duchanov (Lat) 4,376; 2 M Gostigian (US) 4,375; 3 M Czyzowicz (Pol) 4,373; 4 P Steinmann (Swit) 4,367; 5 C Toraldo (It) 4,350; 6 A Makeev (Rus) 4,347; 7 L Fabian (Hung) 4,327; 8 G Brookhouse (GB) 4,299. Did not qualify: 14 J Greenwell (GB) 4.148.