2016 Summer Olympics / Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Deodoro Olympic Park
Nations	28
Athletes	72 (36 , 36 )
date	August 18-20, 2012
decisions	2
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At the XXXI. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , two modern pentathlon competitions were held, one each for women and men. The venues were various sports facilities in the Deodoro Olympic Park .

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Australia	1	-	-	1
	Russia	1	-	-	1
3	France	-	1	-	1
	Ukraine	-	1	-	1
5	Mexico	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1

Time schedule

date	time	time	sport	Competition venue
18th of August	10:00 (F)	14:30 (M)	Epee fencing (placement round)	Arena da Juventude
August 19 (women) August 20 (men)	12:00		200 m freestyle swimming	Centro Aquático de Deodoro
	14:00		Epee fencing (bonus round)	Arena da Juventude
	3:30 p.m.		Show jumping	Centro Nacional de Hipismo
	18:00		Combined (3200 m cross-country run / shooting)	Estádio do Deodoro

Results

Single men

space	country	athlete	Points
1	RUS	Alexander Lessun	1479 OR
2	UKR	Pavlo Tymoschenko	1472
3	MEX	Ismael Hernández Uscanga	1468
4th	FRA	Valentin Prades	1467
5	ITA	Riccardo De Luca	1467
6th	GER	Patrick Dogue	1463
7th	OUT	Max Esposito	1462
8th	IRL	Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe	1457
9	CZE	David Svoboda	1452
10	GBR	Joseph Choong	1451
21st	GER	Christian Zillekens	1417

Date: August 18 and 20, 2016
36 participants from 25 countries

Single women

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	OUT	Chloe Esposito	1372
2	FRA	Élodie Clouvel	1356
3	POLE	Oktawia Nowacka	1349
4th	GER	Annika Schleu	1336
5	GBR	Kate French	1331
6th	IRL	Natalya Coyle	1325
7th	ITA	Alice Sotero	1323
8th	GBR	Samantha Murray	1321
9	KAZ	Jelena Potapenko	1314
10	MEX	Tamara Vega	1311
31	GER	Lena Schöneborn	1045

Date: 18./19. August 2016
Especially the show jumping caused a stir, where six athletes were eliminated because of multiple refusals. This also included the Olympic champions Lena Schöneborn and Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė . The Cuban Leydi Laura Moya had to receive medical treatment after a serious fall, but was able to take part in the combined event again. In international competitions there are seldom more than two eliminations per show jumping event.

The originally fourth-placed Chen Qian was subsequently disqualified for doping in June 2017.

qualification

Qualification criteria

72 athletes will take part in the competitions, 36 women and 36 men each. The host NOK was guaranteed two quota places . The world association UIPM was able to award up to four quota places by invitation after the qualification phase. Each NOK was allowed to start a total of four athletes, two women and two men.

The following qualification criteria applied in parallel to women and men. The winner of the 2015 World Cup final in Minsk won a quota place. At the 2015 World Championships in Berlin , the top three athletes won a quota place. Further places were then awarded at the continental championships. One quota place was awarded at the African Championships in Cairo , five at the Pan American Games in Toronto , six at the Asia / Oceania Championships in Beijing (five for Asia, one for Oceania) and eight at the European Championships in Bath . Three more quota places were awarded at the 2016 World Championships in Moscow . The last seven places were distributed over the world rankings on June 1, 2015. If an athlete had already won a quota place and again achieved a placement that guaranteed a quota place, the next athlete without a quota place received it.

List of qualifying tournaments:

• Asia / Oceania Championships in Beijing , June 1-5, 2015 
• World Cup finals in Minsk , June 12-14, 2015 
• World Championships in Berlin , June 28th to July 6th, 2015 
• European Championships in Bath , 17th to 23rd August 2015 
• African Championships in Cairo , August 21-23, 2015 
• Pan American Games in Toronto , October 18-19, 2015 
• World Championships in Moscow , May 23-29, 2016 

Quota places won

Won quota places according to NOKs
NOK	Women	Men	total
Egypt	1	2	3
Argentina	1	1	2
Australia	1	1	2
Brazil	1	1	2
Bulgaria		1	1
China	2	2	4th
Germany	2	2	4th
France	1	2	3
Great Britain	2	2	4th
Guatemala	1	1	2
Ireland	1	1	2
Italy	2	2	4th
Japan	1	2	3
Canada	2		2
Kazakhstan	1	1	2
Cuba	1	1	2
Latvia		1	1
Lithuania	2	1	3
Mexico	1	1	2
Poland	2	1	3
Russia	2	1	3
South Korea	1	2	3
Czech Republic	1	2	3
Turkey	1		1
Ukraine	1	2	3
Hungary	2	2	4th
United States	2	1	3
Belarus	1		1
Total quota places	36	36	72

Web links

Commons : Modern Pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RIO 2016 MODERN PENTATHLON UPDATE: WOMEN'S RIDING , uipmworld.org
2. ↑ Pentathlete Chen Qian's game result canceled after failing doping test , news.cgtn.com. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Qualification system - Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Rio 2016 (English). Retrieved August 2, 2016.