Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's explained

Event:	Men's modern pentathlon
Games:	1952 Summer
Venue:	Hämeenlinna
Dates:	July 21–25
Competitors:	51
Nations:	19
Gold:	Lars Hall
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Gábor Benedek
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	István Szondy
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	1948
Next:	1956

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the men's individual modern pentathlon event was contested.^[1] It was the eighth appearance of the event, which had been featured at every Summer Olympics since 1912. The individual scores were also used for the men's team event.

Competition format

The modern pentathlon consisted of five events. The competition used a point-for-place system, with the lowest total across the five events winning.^[2]

Riding: a show jumping competition. The course was 5000 m long, with a time limit of 10 minutes, 32 seconds. Riders started with 100 points and could lose points either through obstacle faults or going over the time limit. Negative scores were possible. Ties were broken by the specific time taken, with the quicker rider winning.
Fencing: a round-robin, one-touch épée competition. Score was based on number of bouts won, with double-touches used as a tie-breaker.
Shooting: a rapid fire pistol competition, with 20 shots (each scoring up to 10 points) per competitor.
Swimming: a 300 m freestyle swimming competition.
Running: a 4 km race.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Riding					Fencing			Shooting			Swimming		Running		Total
Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	faults	faults	Score	Place	Wins	Double touches	Place	Hits	Score	Place	Time	Place	Time	Place	Total
			9.03.0	0	0	100	1	28	8	7	20	182	15	4.05.4	1	15.08.4	8	32
			9.47.6	0	0	100	8	30	8	2	20	185	9	4.39.7	18	14.40.9	2	39
			9.24.9	0	0	100	3	30	4	4	20	183	12	4.19.9	5	15.44.9	17	41
4			10.41.0	4.5	0	95.5	24	25	8	13	20	187	4	4.16.9	4	15.11.6	10	55
5			9.24.0	0	0	100	2	19	3	37	20	184	10	4.29.0	9	14.44.7	4	62
6			9.51.3	0	0	100	9	28	5	11	20	186	6	4.36.9	17	15.53.5	19	62
7			10.08.1	0	0	100	11	18	10	38	20	196	1	4.27.6	8	14.45.9	5	63
8			10.09.8	0	0	100	12	23	6	23	20	175	29	4.13.6	3	14.20.4	1	68
9			9.30.8	0	0	100	4	29	4	6	18	165	42	4.25.5	7	15.42.0	16	75
10			10.39.8	4	0	96	23	22	9	24	20	187	5	4.11.5	2	16.02.5	26	80
11			10.18.6	0	0	100	14	30	7	3	20	183	13	4.54.3	23	16.04.9	29	82
12			10.01.1	0	0	100	10	28	5	10	20	179	25	5.01.4	27	15.54.2	21	93
13			9.54.2	0	8	92	26	24	10	19	20	181	19	4.31.8	11	15.53.8	20	95
14			9.34.3	0	0	100	6	25	2	17	20	185	8	5.10.9	34	16.19.1	30	95
15			9.44.0	0	0	100	7	25	5	14	20	180	23	4.36.4	16	16.30.4	36	96
16			9.33.5	0	0	100	5	20	6	31	19	176	33	4.32.6	13	15.49.7	18	100
17			10.37.4	3	0	97	20	28	6	9	20	181	17	5.10.0	33	16.03.0	27	106
18			10.11.6	0	3	97	18	22	3	27	20	180	24	4.33.5	14	15.59.7	24	107
19			11.52.6	40.5	0	59.5	37	28	7	8	20	181	16	5.27.7	38	15.14.4	11	110
20			10.18.6	0	0	100	14	25	5	15	20	184	11	5.29.0	39	16.19.3	31	110
21			10.59.0	13.5	3	83.5	30	34	2	1	19	165	39	4.44.2	21	15.54.5	22	113
22			11.44.4	36.5	0	63.5	35	23	7	22	20	188	3	4.58.1	25	16.26.9	35	120
23			10.13.5	0	3	97	19	21	9	28	19	173	34	5.04.6	29	15.15.4	13	123
24			9.32.6	0	3	97	17	20	2	33	20	186	7	5.35.7	41	16.01.2	25	123
25			10.14.2	0	0	100	13	16	6	45	20	180	21	4.31.0	10	16.25.2	34	123
26			10.32.6	0.5	3	96.5	22	16	8	44	20	190	2	5.51.4	43	15.35.8	15	126
27			10.39.5	4	3	93	25	25	9	12	20	176	28	5.34.2	40	15.59.4	23	128
28			11.27.2	28	9	63	36	20	11	30	13	121	50	4.23.7	6	15.06.3	7	129
29			12.38.3	63.5	8	28.5	44	25	0	18	20	173	30	4.35.6	15	16.03.7	28	135
30			10.54.7	11.5	0	88.5	27	17	6	42	20	181	18	5.22.9	37	15.15.3	12	136
31			10.19.5	0	0	100	16	19	6	36	20	181	20	4.52.7	22	17.21.8	43	137
32			12.15.1	52	3	45	41	29	6	5	20	179	26	5.07.4	31	17.25.4	45	148
33			11.07.5	18	0	82	32	18	5	40	20	180	22	4.41.5	20	16.53.4	37	151
34			10.56.6	12.5	9	78.5	33	18	8	39	20	182	14	5.02.5	28	16.59.7	38	152
35			Interrupted				49	21	4	29	19	181	32	5.36.9	42	15.04.1	6	158
36			12.03.7	46	11	43	42	15	9	46	18	159	44	4.32.2	12	15.31.4	14	158
37			10.35.3	2	50	48	40	13	8	50	19	171	36	5.08.5	32	14.41.9	3	161
38			11.18.0	23	0	77	34	19	8	34	19	167	37	4.39.9	19	17.00.7	39	163
39			14.30.8	119.5	170	-189.5	47	24	5	21	20	177	27	5.22.3	36	16.21.3	33	164
40			13.33.9	91	20	-11	46	19	7	35	19	164	40	6.11.0	46	15.09.7	9	176
41			10.59.1	14	3	83	31	25	3	16	19	173	35	7.07.7	48	18.04.5	49	179
42			10.55.7	12	0	88	28	17	9	41	19	166	38	4.57.9	24	18.26.2	50	181
43			11.49.7	39	8	53	39	22	3	25	18	136	47	5.18.8	35	17.10.8	41	187
44			10.58.3	13.5	3	83.5	29	16	10	43	15	142	49	5.06.7	30	17.15.7	42	193
45			12.39.0	63.5	14	22.5	45	24	8	20	18	145	46	5.55.5	44	17.09.5	40	195
46			10.37.7	3	0	97	21	14	8	48	20	170	31	7.26.2	49	18.04.2	48	197
47			11.57.2	43	3	54	38	14	4	49	18	158	45	5.00.4	26	17.22.6	44	202
48			15.13.1	141	206	-247	48	22	3	26	18	160	43	6.16.3	47	17.46.8	46	210
49			12.10.1	49.5	15	35.5	43	9	7	51	19	164	41	6.04.7	45	16.20.8	32	212
50			Interrupted				49	20	9	32	17	135	48		50	17.59.3	47	226
–			10.44.7	6.5			49	15	9	47	Did not finish

Notes and References

Web site: Modern pentathlon at 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Individual . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181153/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1952/MOP/mens-individual.html . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2019-11-05 . sports-reference.com.
Official Report, pp. 505–08.