| Event: | Men's individual modern pentathlon |
| Games: | 1968 Summer |
| Dates: | October 13–17 |
| Competitors: | 48 |
| Nations: | 18 |
| Gold: | Björn Ferm |
| Goldnoc: | SWE |
| Silver: | András Balczó |
| Silvernoc: | HUN |
| Bronze: | Pavel Lednev |
| Bronzenoc: | URS |
| Prev: | 1964 |
| Next: | 1972 |
The men's individual modern pentathlon event was a multi-sport combined event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. It was the 12th consecutive Games at which the event was held after being introduced in 1912. The competition involved riding, fencing, shooting, swimming, and running. The scores from the individual competition were also used for the team competition.
The event resulted in the first Olympic competitor being disqualified for doping. Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was disqualified for alcohol use after drinking beer before the shooting phase.[1]
| Rank | Pentathlete | Nation | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left data-sort-value="Ferm, Björn " | 1100 | 885 | 934 | 1075 | 970 | 4964 | ||||
| align=left data-sort-value="Balczó, András" | 1010 | 931 | 934 | 1054 | 1024 | 4953 | ||||
| align=left data-sort-value="Lednev, Pavel" | 1070 | 839 | 934 | 1060 | 892 | 4795 | ||||
| 4 | align=left data-sort-value="Kutschke, Karl-Heinz" | 1070 | 632 | 846 | 1126 | 1090 | 4764 | |||
| 5 | align=left data-sort-value="Onishenko, Boris" | 995 | 885 | 912 | 1054 | 910 | 4756 | |||
| 6 | align=left data-sort-value="Gueguen, Raoul" | 1040 | 954 | 912 | 1000 | 850 | 4756 | |||
| 7 | align=left data-sort-value="Mona, Istvan" | 1010 | 1046 | 868 | 943 | 847 | 4714 | |||
| 8 | align=left data-sort-value="Fox, Jim" | 1010 | 862 | 890 | 1006 | 895 | 4663 | |||
| 9 | align=left data-sort-value="Shaparnis, Stasis" | 1070 | 793 | 802 | 1027 | 964 | 4656 | |||
| 10 | align=left data-sort-value="Medda, Mario" | 1010 | 977 | 758 | 949 | 937 | 4631 | |||
| 11 | align=left data-sort-value="Moore, James" | 1040 | 793 | 912 | 931 | 937 | 4613 | |||
| 12 | align=left data-sort-value="Török, Ference" | 920 | 1046 | 912 | 880 | 793 | 4551 | |||
| 13 | align=left data-sort-value="Steffensen, Jørn" | 1040 | 862 | 934 | 811 | 898 | 4545 | |||
| 14 | align=left data-sort-value="Makihira, Yuso" | 1040 | 816 | 802 | 898 | 973 | 4529 | |||
| 15 | align=left data-sort-value="Tscherner, Jörg" | 1050 | 793 | 846 | 1060 | 766 | 4515 | |||
| 16 | align=left data-sort-value="Jacobson, Hans" | 1025 | 977 | 846 | 946 | 718 | 4512 | |||
| 17 | align=left data-sort-value="Frings, Elmar" | 1070 | 839 | 846 | 955 | 796 | 4506 | |||
| 18 | align=left data-sort-value="Aho, Seppo" | 1100 | 885 | 692 | 940 | 880 | 4497 | |||
| 19 | align=left data-sort-value="Olivera Lastra, Eduardo" | 1070 | 770 | 868 | 997 | 760 | 4474 | |||
| 20 | align=left data-sort-value="Ketela, Martti" | 1010 | 770 | 846 | 964 | 856 | 4446 | |||
| 21 | align=left data-sort-value="Guiguet, Lucien" | 1035 | 655 | 824 | 958 | 934 | 4406 | |||
| 22 | align=left data-sort-value="Beck, Robert" | 1010 | 885 | 912 | 925 | 655 | 4387 | |||
| 23 | align=left data-sort-value="Sonnleitner, Wolf-Dieter" | 1010 | 701 | 912 | 916 | 832 | 4371 | |||
| 24 | align=left data-sort-value="Morresi, Giancarlo" | 790 | 793 | 1022 | 1051 | 703 | 4359 | |||
| 25 | align=left data-sort-value="Bárcena Ríos, David" | 1010 | 517 | 890 | 982 | 952 | 4351 | |||
| 26 | align=left data-sort-value="Tschui, Alex" | 1100 | 770 | 1022 | 679 | 766 | 4337 | |||
| 27 | align=left data-sort-value="Tashiro, Katsuaki" | 1100 | 678 | 934 | 931 | 676 | 4319 | |||
| 28 | align=left data-sort-value="Springer, Siegfried" | 1030 | 816 | 846 | 883 | 718 | 4293 | |||
| 29 | align=left data-sort-value="Lough, Maurice" | 980 | 655 | 846 | 988 | 820 | 4289 | |||
| 30 | align=left data-sort-value="Lillywhite, Barry" | 985 | 816 | 802 | 982 | 700 | 4285 | |||
| 31 | align=left data-sort-value="Macken, Peter" | 935 | 655 | 802 | 910 | 982 | 4284 | |||
| 32 | align=left data-sort-value="Thade, Heiner" | 910 | 908 | 956 | 877 | 613 | 4264 | |||
| 33 | align=left data-sort-value="Paniowsky, Antone" | 950 | 724 | 978 | 892 | 703 | 4247 | |||
| 34 | align=left data-sort-value="Hotanen, Jorma" | 780 | 839 | 846 | 895 | 871 | 4231 | |||
| 35 | align=left data-sort-value="Fukui, Toshio" | 840 | 896 | 692 | 967 | 802 | 4197 | |||
| 36 | align=left data-sort-value="Sardjev, Konstantine" | 1100 | 655 | 868 | 757 | 811 | 4191 | |||
| 37 | align=left data-sort-value="Giudicelli, Jean-Pierre" | 780 | 494 | 890 | 973 | 925 | 4062 | |||
| 38 | align=left data-sort-value="Phelps, Robert" | 795 | 632 | 978 | 964 | 562 | 3931 | |||
| 39 | align=left data-sort-value="Page, Duncan" | 1035 | 563 | 846 | 880 | 580 | 3904 | |||
| 40 | align=left data-sort-value="Lüderitz, Wolfgang" | 365 | 724 | 934 | 907 | 913 | 3843 | |||
| 41 | align=left data-sort-value="Kupka, Pavel" | 865 | 839 | 670 | 943 | 502 | 3819 | |||
| 42 | align=left data-sort-value="McMikin, Donald" | 545 | 678 | 1022 | 835 | 679 | 3759 | |||
| 43 | align=left data-sort-value="Deligia, Nicolo" | 460 | 678 | 780 | 889 | 850 | 3657 | |||
| 44 | align=left data-sort-value="Tovar Flores, Eduardo" | 805 | 540 | 648 | 889 | 730 | 3612 | |||
| 45 | align=left data-sort-value="Apostolov, Ivan" | 720 | 609 | 538 | 880 | 715 | 3462 | |||
| 46 | align=left data-sort-value="Todt, Hans" | 0 | 678 | 736 | 865 | 730 | 3009 | |||
| 47 | align=left data-sort-value="Leu, Wolfgang" | 980 | 747 | 670 | 2397 | |||||
| align=left data-sort-value="Liljenwall, Hans-Gunnar" | 1010 | 908 |
Hans Todt drew a stubborn horse for the riding element, which balked three times at an obstacle, resulting in Todt scoring 0 points. Todt, disconsolate at seeing his years of training gone to waste because of bad luck, attacked the horse and had to be pulled away by his teammates.[2]