PHOTO GALLERY: 2015 Modern Pentathlon World Cup No.1 Opening Ceremony
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Amanda Sebastiano
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| 11:00 p.m. February 16, 2015
PHOTO GALLERY: 2015 Modern Pentathlon World Cup No.1 Opening Ceremony
Athletes from 35 countries show off their countries' flags.
Sarasota Military Academy students Austin Moriarty, Judson Haggard, Jacob Howell and Carl Goodrich wait to present flags.
The United States team is one of the largest in the Modern Pentathlon.
Saul Salazar, Duilio Gonzalez, Andres Cano, Ismoel Hernandez, Jorge Lopez and Alvaro Aguilar represent Mexico.
Great Britain is one of 35 countries represented at the upcoming event.
Valerio Grasselli, Fabio Poddighe, Pier Petroni and Riccardo De Luca are Italian Pentathletes.
Arthur Lanigan,-O'Keefe, Jenny McGeever and Natalya Coyle represent Ireland in the competition.
Pagona Chronopoulos and Corralie Kreidel sip cocktails after the teams marched through the courtyard.
The Japan team consists of Tomoya Miguchi, Hayato Noguchi, Hikaru Shimano and Shohei Iwamoto.
Andy Mackenzie oversees the Ireland pentathlon team and Kim Raisner oversees the Germany teams.
Tessa Suplee, Karen McKeivier, Tamara Ley, Joan Tierney and Sophie and Caroline Grant will attend the five-day event.
Martin Dawe competed in the modern pentathlon in 1962. He waits for the opening ceremony to begin alongside his wife, Debbie.
Dr. H.C. Klaus Schormann has been the president of the International Union of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM) since 1993.
The Williams family — Faith, Cece, Destiny and Judah — watch the Pine View School choir perform.
Alongside his Pine View School classmates, Luke Wansa performs patriotic songs for a crowd.
Christina Fraser, Ann Marie Grew, Gene Wittman and Deric Harvey chat while they wait for the festivities to begin.
Poland natives Andrew Zolkiewski and Zbigniew Katner are coaches for the 2015 Modern Pentathlon.
Heidi Blakeway-Phillips mingles with Jim Ruddock, Rick Maynard and Evin Ballantyne before the ceremony starts.
Bob Simek traveled from Boston to visit Mike Hagan, and to attend the Modern Pentathlon.
Jenni Hudson and Deb Kabinoff are co-chairwomen of the Opening Ceremony.
