The world’s three top-ranked male pentathletes were among the qualifiers today for the final on Sunday (July 13) at the International Modern Pentathlon Union World Championships in Cairo.

France’s Valentin Prades and Valentin Belaud, and Woongtae Jun of South Korea, all moved through without undue stress.

Jun, the Asian Games champion, finished second on the day on 1110 points, one less than Ukraine’s Pavlo Svedeniuk, with Alexander Lifanov, representing the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation, finishing third, also on 1110.

Prades, winner of last month’s World Cup final in Hungary, finished tenth on 1102, with his colleague Pierre Dejardin earning the same score, and Belaud, the defending champion, 16^th on 1101.

Jun will be joined in the final by team mates Jinhwa Jung and Changwan Seo, who were respectively 20^th on 1100 and ninth on 1103.

The host nation will be represented by the 2018 Youth Olympic Games gold medallist Ahmed Elgendy, Ahmed Hamed, Eslam Hamad and Mohanad Shaban.

Other successful qualifiers included Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist Pavlo Tymoshchenko of Ukraine and the German trio of Patrick and Marvin Dogue and Fabian Liebig.

The women's final takes place tomorrow, followed by the men’s final and mixed relay over the following days.