The men's modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 19 August. Three venues were used: Deodoro Aquatics Centre (swimming), Deodoro Stadium (horse-riding and combined running and shooting) and Youth Arena (fencing).
The medals were presented by Timothy Fok, IOC member, Hong Kong and Klaus Schormann, President of the UIPM.
Competition format The modern pentathlon consisted of five events, all held on the same 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. 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 kilometre. Starts were staggered based on points from the previous three events.
Schedule All times are UTC-3 DateTimeRoundThursday, 18 August 201614:30Fencing (Ranking Round) Saturday, 20 August 201612:00Swimming14:00Fencing (Bonus Round) 15:30Riding18:00Combined running/shooting
Results Thirty-six athletes participated. Key
RankAthleteCountrySwimmingTime (pts)FencingVictories (pts)RidingTime (pts)CombinedTime (pts)TotalAleksander Lesun2:05.58 (324)28 (268)♦ OR71.02 (279)11:32.35 (608)1479 ORPavlo Tymoshchenko2:05.59 (324)21 (227)65.43 (286)11:05.74 (635)1472Ismael Hernández2:02.12 (334)18 (208)71.78 (300)11:14.33 (626)14684Valentin Prades2:04.44 (327)21 (227)77.92 (277)11:04.08 (636)14675Riccardo De Luca2:09.36 (312)20 (222)71.56 (300)11:07.23 (633)14676Patrick Dogue2:07.65 (318)25 (240)80.73 (288)11:23.36 (617)14637Max Esposito1:59.71 (341)14 (185)74.39 (300)11:04.99 (636)14628Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe2:03.03 (331)16 (198)74.83 (300)11:12.21 (628)14579David Svoboda2:05.59 (324)21 (226)79.48 (282)11:20.92 (620)145210Joseph Choong1:58.50 (345)22 (224)70.31 (293)11:51.59 (589)145111Nathan Schrimsher2:00.87 (338)20 (220)79.42 (282)11:30.76 (610)145012Ádám Marosi2:01.66 (335)16 (196)67.87 (293)11:19.84 (621)144513Jung Jin-hwa2:00.82 (338)17 (203)78.75 (283)11:21.80 (619)144314James Cooke 1:55.60 (354)♦ OR14 (185)80.48 (288)11:31.07 (609)143615Charles Fernandez2:03.18 (331)16 (214)80.58 (271)11:21.49 (619)143516Cao Zhongrong2:00.08 (340)17 (204)74.31 (300)11:51.14 (589)143317Bence Demeter2:03.89 (329)19 (217)74.62 (265)11:21.98 (619)143018Guo Jianli2:01.94 (335)19 (214)73.06 (286)11:46.21 (594)142919Jun Woong-tae2:00.88 (338)13 (178)73.91 (272)11:02.50 (638) ♦ OR142620Valentin Belaud2:07.83 (317)19 (216)74.31 (286)11:39.37 (601)142021Christian Zillekens2:06.24 (322)16 (196)75.90 (286)11:27.45 (613)141722Tomoya Miguchi2:02.62 (333)20 (220)80.30 (281)12:02.88 (578)141223Omar El Geziry2:03.62 (330)23 (239)75.10 (265)12:11.94 (569)140324Pier Paolo Petroni2:05.51 (324)13 (179)75.94 (293)11:39.60 (601)139725Amro El Geziry1:55.80 (353)18 (208)77.23 (291)12:39.19 (541)139326Andriy Fedechko2:05.63 (324)16 (198)79.49 (275)11:47.68 (593)139027Szymon Staśkiewicz2:10.16 (310)21 (227)73.44 (258)11:45.88 (595)139028Ruslans Nakonechnyi2:03.83 (329)13 (180)72.45 (272)11:35.70 (605)138629Shohei Iwamoto2:08.65 (315)09 (154)74.90 (300) ♦11:54.59 (586)135530Emmanuel Zapata2:06.66 (320)11 (166)77.50 (277)12:03.19 (577)134031Felipe Nascimento2:05.39 (324)09 (155)75.72 (251)12:15.59 (565)129532Jose Ricardo Figueroa2:15.39 (294)09 (156)122.31 (233)12:49.13 (531)121433Dimitar Krastanov2:04.96 (326)19 (215)11:02.95 (638)117934Justinas Kinderis2:06.84 (320)18 (211)11:27.33 (613)114435Pavel Ilyashenko2:06.19 (322)18 (208)11:29.79 (611)114136Jan Kuf2:05.84 (323)19 (215)12:15.62 (565)1103
Records Broken Olympic records during the 2016 Summer OlympicsTotal1479 pts.Swimming1:55.60Combined11:02.50Running10:20.18Shooting - 1 session of 5 shots7.39Shooting - 4 session of 20 shots34.08
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