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TheReview Wednesday, September 12,1990 — BD5

Second national pentathion title for Soeliner

by Mare Davis
The Review

Arguably Canada’s top all-
round sportsman, Ian Soellner, 21,
returned home to North Saanich
last week after clinching his
second senior national pentathlon
championship:

The soft-spoken 1987 Parkland
Secondary graduate attributes his
success to his dedication to the
sport and to a love of competing.

A pentathlon involves fencing,
swimming, pistol shooting, cross-
country running and show-
jumping.

The more well-known sport of

his third attempt, in 1988. :
But his hopes of making it to the
Seoul Olympics were dashed
when selectors passed him over
due to his lack of experience with
major competitions, he said.
However, now he feels confident
of becoming Canada’s most prom-
ising pentathlete at the 1992

tathlon championship in Hungary,
as well as placing 15th at the 1990
Goodwill Games in Seattle.

But now he is ready to knuckle
down to about 20 months of seri-
ous preparation for the Barcelona
Olympics.

Having just entered his third
year aS a science major at UVic,
Soellner is glad to take a break
from competing all over Europe
and North America.

“With all the travelling I’ve
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decathlon, on the other hand,
involves ten disciplines which are
all track and field events.
Soellner won his first national
pentathlon championship on only

Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Soellner has just finished a busy
summer schedule of international
competition, which included plac-
ing 28th in the world junior pen-

Winning the title of Canada’s
No. 1 pentahtlete at the nationals
in Edmonton, held Sept. 1-3, was
swty Tewarding but not unex-
; pected, Soellner said:

DIGGING DEEP FOR whatever energy reserves he has left,
lan Soeliner approaches the cross-country course finish
line at the world Junior pentathlion championships

CLEARING A JUMP with ease, pentathlete lan Soeliner rides his horse to a strong finish in the

World Junior championships in Hungary last month.

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