Modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's explained

Event:	Men's modern pentathlon
Games:	2016 Summer
Venues:	Deodoro Aquatics Centre (swimming) Deodoro Stadium (riding and combined) Youth Arena (fencing)
Dates:	18–20 August 2016
Competitors:	36
Nations:	25
Win Label:	Winning total
Win Value:	1479 points OR
Gold:	Aleksander Lesun
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Pavlo Tymoshchenko
Silvernoc:	UKR
Bronze:	Ismael Hernández
Bronzenoc:	MEX
Prev:	2012
Next:	2020

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.^[1]

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

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 18 August 2016	14:30	Fencing (Ranking Round)
Saturday, 20 August 2016	12:00	Swimming
	14:00	Fencing (Bonus Round)
	15:30	Riding
	18:00	Combined running/shooting

Results

Thirty-six athletes participated.

Key:

data-sort-type=number	Rank	Athlete	Country	Swimming Time (pts)	Fencing Victories (pts)	Riding Time (pts)	Combined Time (pts)	Total
	Aleksander Lesun		2:05.58 (324)	28 (268)^♦ OR	71.02 (279)	11:32.35 (608)	1479 OR
	Pavlo Tymoshchenko		2:05.59 (324)	21 (227)	65.43 (286)	11:05.74 (635)	1472
	Ismael Hernández		2:02.12 (334)	18 (208)	71.78 (300)	11:14.33 (626)	1468
4	Valentin Prades		2:04.44 (327)	21 (227)	77.92 (277)	11:04.08 (636)	1467
5	Riccardo De Luca		2:09.36 (312)	20 (222)	71.56 (300)	11:07.23 (633)	1467
6	Patrick Dogue		2:07.65 (318)	25 (240)	80.73 (288)	11:23.36 (617)	1463
7	Max Esposito		1:59.71 (341)	14 (185)	74.39 (300)	11:04.99 (636)	1462
8	Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe		2:03.03 (331)	16 (198)	74.83 (300)	11:12.21 (628)	1457
9	David Svoboda		2:05.59 (324)	21 (226)	79.48 (282)	11:20.92 (620)	1452
10	Joseph Choong		1:58.50 (345)	22 (224)	70.31 (293)	11:51.59 (589)	1451
11	Nathan Schrimsher		2:00.87 (338)	20 (220)	79.42 (282)	11:30.76 (610)	1450
12	Ádám Marosi		2:01.66 (335)	16 (196)	67.87 (293)	11:19.84 (621)	1445
13	Jung Jin-hwa		2:00.82 (338)	17 (203)	78.75 (283)	11:21.80 (619)	1443
14	James Cooke		1:55.60 (354)^♦ OR	14 (185)	80.48 (288)	11:31.07 (609)	1436
15	Charles Fernandez		2:03.18 (331)	16 (214)	80.58 (271)	11:21.49 (619)	1435
16	Cao Zhongrong		2:00.08 (340)	17 (204)	74.31 (300)	11:51.14 (589)	1433
17	Bence Demeter		2:03.89 (329)	19 (217)	74.62 (265)	11:21.98 (619)	1430
18	Guo Jianli		2:01.94 (335)	19 (214)	73.06 (286)	11:46.21 (594)	1429
19	Jun Woong-tae		2:00.88 (338)	13 (178)	73.91 (272)	11:02.50 (638) ^♦ OR	1426
20	Valentin Belaud		2:07.83 (317)	19 (216)	74.31 (286)	11:39.37 (601)	1420
21	Christian Zillekens		2:06.24 (322)	16 (196)	75.90 (286)	11:27.45 (613)	1417
22	Tomoya Miguchi		2:02.62 (333)	20 (220)	80.30 (281)	12:02.88 (578)	1412
23	Omar El Geziry		2:03.62 (330)	23 (239)	75.10 (265)	12:11.94 (569)	1403
24	Pier Paolo Petroni		2:05.51 (324)	13 (179)	75.94 (293)	11:39.60 (601)	1397
25	Amro El Geziry		1:55.80 (353)	18 (208)	77.23 (291)	12:39.19 (541)	1393
26	Andriy Fedechko		2:05.63 (324)	16 (198)	79.49 (275)	11:47.68 (593)	1390
27	Szymon Staśkiewicz		2:10.16 (310)	21 (227)	73.44 (258)	11:45.88 (595)	1390
28	Ruslans Nakonechnyi		2:03.83 (329)	13 (180)	72.45 (272)	11:35.70 (605)	1386
29	Shohei Iwamoto		2:08.65 (315)	09 (154)	74.90 (300) ^♦	11:54.59 (586)	1355
30	Emmanuel Zapata		2:06.66 (320)	11 (166)	77.50 (277)	12:03.19 (577)	1340
31	Felipe Nascimento		2:05.39 (324)	09 (155)	75.72 (251)	12:15.59 (565)	1295
32	Jose Ricardo Figueroa		2:15.39 (294)	09 (156)	122.31 (233)	12:49.13 (531)	1214
33	Dimitar Krastanov		2:04.96 (326)	19 (215)		11:02.95 (638)	1179
34	Justinas Kinderis		2:06.84 (320)	18 (211)		11:27.33 (613)	1144
35	Pavel Ilyashenko		2:06.19 (322)	18 (208)		11:29.79 (611)	1141
36	Jan Kuf		2:05.84 (323)	19 (215)		12:15.62 (565)	1103

Records

Broken Olympic records during the 2016 Summer Olympics
Total		1479 pts.
Swimming		1:55.60
Combined		11:02.50
Running		10:20.18
Shooting - 1 session of 5 shots		7.39
Shooting - 4 session of 20 shots		34.08

Notes and References

Web site: Modern Pentathlon. 2016 Summer Olympics. 20 August 2016. 26 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160826074408/https://www.rio2016.com/en/modern-pentathlon. dead.