Alexander Parygin

Alexander Parygin medal table
Modern pentathlon
Kazakhstan , Australia
Olympic games
gold	Atlanta 1996	singles

Alexander Parygin ( Kazakh and Russian Александр Владимирович Парыгин ; born  April 25, 1973 in Alma-Ata ) is an athlete born in the Soviet Union who competed in both Kazakhstan and Australia at the Summer Olympics in the modern pentathlon .

At the 1996 Games in Atlanta , he became an Olympic champion in the individual competition for Kazakhstan. He won the first Olympic competition in this sport, in which all five disciplines were held on the same day. Eight years later, at the 2004 Athens Games , he played for Australia and finished in 27th place.

His qualification for the 2008 Games in Beijing , which he had achieved as part of the 2007 Oceania Championships in Tokyo , was overturned by the International Court of Justice. The reason was an objection from the British federation on the grounds that the qualification would not have come about in the permitted qualification period during a regular international competition. The Oceania Championships, at which Parygin had qualified, had been carried out without the riding sub-discipline due to the equine flu . In his place, Nick Woodbridge from Great Britain , who was next in the world rankings, took part in the games.

Web links

• Alexander Parygin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )