This article details the qualifying phase for modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics . Thirty-six athletes per male and female gender must qualify for the Games, with only a maximum of two each per NOC. Qualification methods are similarly applied to both men's and women's events.
Host nation Japan has been guaranteed one quota place automatically, while two invitational positions are distributed by the UIPM once the rest of the qualifiers are announced and thereby decided.
The initial distribution of berths to the athletes based on competition results occur between February and September 2019. One place will be handily awarded to the winner of the 2019 UIPM World Cup final. Twenty places are determined by the continental championships: one each from Africa and Oceania, five from Asia, eight from Europe, and five from the Americas with a maximum of one quota per NOC (two winners each from NORCECA and South America, and the highest-ranked from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru).
Three places have been reserved to the highest-ranked athletes at each of the 2019 and 2020 UIPM World Championships. The remaining six will be awarded based on the pentathlon's world rankings, unless a reallocation of unused berths have been invoked before the deadline.
Qualification summary NOC Men Women Total 1 1 112 1 1 123 11 1 1 224 112 2 2 11 224 224 224 224 1 1 224 11 22 123 112 1 1 123 224 213 123 224 1 1 11 1 1 112 112Total: 31 NOCs 363672
Men's Individual athletes may qualify in any of the following methods, ensuring that an NOC may enter up to a maximum of two in each event. If more than two athletes are eligible to compete, a non-selected quota has been redistributed.
Event Date Venue Places Qualified athletes 2019 UIPM World Cup Final 27–30 June 2019 Tokyo1 African Championships 23 February 2019 Cairo 0 2019 Pan American GamesJuly 27–30, 2019 Lima 2 2 1 European ChampionshipsAugust 6–11, 2019 Bath 7 2019 UIPM World Championships 3–9 September 2019 Budapest2Asia & Oceania Championships 11–21 November 2019 Kunming 4 1 2021 UIPM World Championships 8–14 June 2021 Cairo2 Pentathlon World Ranking 14 June 2021 —8 Reallocation (World Ranking) — —6 Total 36
Women's Individual athletes may qualify in any of the following methods, ensuring that an NOC may enter up to a maximum of two in each event. If more than two athletes are eligible to compete, a non-selected quota has been redistributed.
Event Date Venue Places Qualified athletes 2019 UIPM World Cup Final 27–30 June 2019 Tokyo1 African Championships 23 February 2019 Cairo 1 2019 Pan American GamesJuly 27–30, 2019 Lima 2 2 1 European ChampionshipsAugust 6–11, 2019 Bath 6 2019 UIPM World Championships 3–9 September 2019 Budapest2 Asia & Oceania Championships 11–21 November 2019 Kunming 5 1 2021 UIPM World Championships 8–14 June 2021 Cairo3 Pentathlon World Ranking 14 June 2021 —7 Reallocation (World Ranking) — —5 Total 36
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