Kelvin Hilgeholt

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The Netherlands
Name	Date and city of birth
Kelvin Hilgeholt	29 June 1984 - Enschede (NL)
How long have you been playing pentathlon?	How long have you been in the national team?
5 years	5 years
How did you start playing pentathlon?	How did the athletes in your country start playing pentathlon?
Came out of swimming and was searching for something else	We have two pentathlon clubs in Holland who are operating on a recreational level
When was your first good result?	When was your best result?
2007 World Cup 6 - Italy	Prague CZE 2006
Where do you train? Have you ever changed cities for training pentathlon?	Where, in your contry, is it possible to play high level pentathlon?
I drive 1200km a week to train at different venues all over Holland/Belgium and a bit in Germany	Nowhere, cause I’m the only performance athlete in this sport
Who do you train with?	Who do the other athletes of your national team train with?
Most likely alone, but fencing with the national fencing team and swimming at a swim club	With small recreational members of a pentathlon club or at the army.
How many hours do you train a day? And how many days a week?	How many hours do the others athletes of your national team train a day? And how many days a week?
40 hours a week. Every day of the week	1 to 2 hours - 4 to 5 days a week
What’s your job?	What are the jobs of the other athletes of your national team?
Marketing manager for TYR Netherlands/Belgium and a student commercial economics	Most likely soldiers in the army
Are you payed for playing pentathlon? If yes, who pays you? Do you earn enough to live on?	Are the other athletes of your national team payed? If yes, who pays them? Do they earn enough to live on?
No	They get only paid for their real job, not for training in the modern pentathlon
What’s the biggest difficulty in playing pentathlon in your country?	What do you think about combined event?
Getting support and to get Dutch athletes with similar goals	It doesn’t matter what I think. If it’s good or bad. I have to accept a change and train hard for the adaption. So from that point of view every change is good...
What do you think about www.pentathlonmoderno.it	Do you have some advice to give us?
Good initiative to create a pentathlon community. I don’t understand Italian, but this is what we need to sell our sport.	Continue participating foreign athletes in this project. Maybe bring your focus a bit more outside of Italy. But most importantly: Keep up the good work!!!
Good luck and thanks a lot by www.pentathlonmoderno.it staff.