The men's modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held on 11 August. Three venues were used: the Copper Box (fencing), Aquatics Centre (swimming) and Greenwich Park (horse-riding and combined running and shooting).Modern Pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics
David Svoboda from the Czech Republic won the gold medal with an Olympic record-breaking score of 5,926 points. Cao Zhongrong, 2010 Asian Games gold medalist, won China's first ever Olympic medal in modern pentathlon, taking the silver. Meanwhile, Hungary's Ádám Marosi claimed the bronze medal. For the first time in the post-Soviet era, Russia missed out of the medal podium in the men's event, as current world champion Aleksander Lesun and defending champion Andrey Moiseev finished fourth and seventh place, respectively.
Competition format The modern pentathlon consisted of five events, with all five held in one day. The format was slightly different from the typical modern pentathlon, with two events combined at the end.
Fencing: A round-robin, one-touch épée competition. Score was based on winning percentage. Swimming: A 200 m freestyle race. Score was based on time. Horse-riding: A show jumping competition. Score based on penalties for fallen bars, refusals, falls, and being over the time limit. Combined running/shooting: A 3 km run with pistol shooting (the athlete must hit five targets in 70 seconds) every 1 km. Starts are staggered (based on points from first three events) so that the first to cross the finish line wins.Format Competition – Men's
Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Date Time RoundSaturday, 11 August 2012 08:45 Fencing 13:20 Swimming 15:20 Riding 19:00 Combined running/shooting
Results Thirty-six athletes participated.Start list RankAthlete Country Fencing Victories (pts)Swimming Time (pts)Riding Time (pts)CombinedTime (pts) Total David Svoboda 26 (1024) 2:04.84 (1304) 10:33.02 (2468) 5928 (OR) Cao Zhongrong 25 (1000) 1:58.93 (1376) 10:38.02 (2448) 5904 Ádám Marosi 20 (880) 2:02.08 (1336) 10:45.72 (2420) 5836 Aleksander Lesun 25 (1000) 2:04.29 (1312) 11:05.83 (2340) 5764 Steffen Gebhardt 20 (880) 2:07.08 (1276) 10:37.16 (2452) 5756 Thomas Daniel 17 (808) 2:09.23 (1252) 10:24.02 (2504) 5744 Andrey Moiseev 22 (928) 2:02.71 (1328) 11:05.28 (2340) 5736 Justinas Kinderis 15 (760) 2:04.35 (1308) 10:19.34 (2524) 5732 Riccardo De Luca 16 (784) 2:08.29 (1264) 10:32.34 (2472) 5720 10 Nicholas Woodbridge 17 (808) 1:57.32 (1396) 11:01.66 (2356) 5716 11 Jung Jin-Hwa 16 (784) 2:00.25 (1360) 10:57.17 (2372) 5676 12 Róbert Kasza 20 (880) 2:01.59 (1344) 11:27.85 (2252) 5676 13 Samuel Weale 17 (808) 2:03.40 (1320) 11:00.00 (2360) 5664 14 Óscar Soto 16 (784) 2:10.98 (1232) 10:34.42 (2464) 5656 15 Ondřej Polívka 12 (688) 2:02.71 (1328) 10:25.99 (2500) 5652 16 Stanislau Zhurauliou 20 (880) 2:06.80 (1280) 10:58.10 (2368) 5648 17 Christopher Patte 16 (784) 2:05.99 (1292) 10:43.96 (2428) 5620 18 Esteban Bustos 15 (760) 2:10.52 (1236) 10:38.72 (2448) 5604 19 Deniss Čerkovskis 23 (952) 2:10.78 (1232) 10:46.88 (2416) 5576 20 Nicola Benedetti 17 (808) 2:18.47 (1140) 10:16.92 (2536) 5568 21 Rustem Sabizkhuzin 19 (856) 2:13.21 (1204) 10:49.57 (2404) 5564 22 Shinichi Tomii 18 (832) 2:01.19 (1348) 11:19.13 (2284) 5552 23 Pavlo Tymoshchenko 13 (712) 2:08.15 (1264) 10:48.37 (2408) 5524 24 Szymon Staśkiewicz 14 (736) 2:11.54 (1224) 10:56.31 (2376) 5516 25 Arthur Lanigan O'Keeffe 14 (736) 2:02.44 (1332) 11:08.69 (2328) 5516 26 Stefan Köllner 16 (784) 2:11.71 (1220) 10:59.16 (2364) 5488 27 Edward Fernon 14 (736) 2:13.10 (1204) 10:48.19 (2408) 5480 28 Yasser Hefny 17 (808) 2:05.90 (1292) 11:25.53 (2260) 5440 29 Pavel Iliashenko 15 (760) 2:06.62 (1244) 10:49.80 (2404) 5432 30 Dzmitry Meliakh 17 (808) 2:03.67 (1316) 11:33.18 (2228) 5380 31 Andrei Gheorghe 15 (760) 2:13.89 (1196) 11:15.58 (2300) 5368 32 Dennis Bowsher 12 (688) 2:05.15 (1300) 10:25.09 (2260) 5324 33 Amro El-Geziry 18 (832) 1:55.70 (1412) 11:42.44 (2192) 5292 34 Hwang Woo-Jin 14 (736) 2:01.14 (1348) 12:08.88 (2088) 4908 35 Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy 17 (808) 2:04.83 (1304) 11:18.80 (2288) 4740 36 Wang Guan 12 (688) 2:12.13 (1216) (0) 1904
Records For the first time in Olympic history, the men's modern pentathlon has broken multiple Olympic records in the every sporting discipline, with the exception of horse-riding. Broken Olympic records during the 2012 Summer OlympicsTotal5928Fencing=26V–9DSwimming1:55.70Running9:23.63 (WR)Combined10:16.92 Shooting - 1 session of 5 shots 9.3Shooting - 3 session of 15 shots 33.6
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