2008 Summer Olympics / Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the XXIX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Beijing
Competition venue	Olympic Green
Nations	27
Athletes	72 (36 women, 36 men)
date	August 21 and 22, 2008
decisions	2
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At the XXIX. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , two modern pentathlon competitions were held, one each for women and men. The venues were various sports facilities in the Olympic Green .

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Russia	1	-	-	1
	Germany	1	-	-	1
3	Lithuania	-	1	1	2
4th	Great Britain	-	1	-	1
5	Belarus	-	-	1	1

Time schedule

time	sport	Competition venue	annotation
08:00	Air pistol shooting	Olympic Green Convention Center	Men on August 21, 2008, women on August 22, 2008 (same times)
10:00	Epee fencing	Olympic Green Convention Center
14:30	200 m freestyle swimming	Ying Tung Natatorium
17:00	Show jumping	Olympic Sports Center
20:00	3000 m cross-country run	Olympic Sports Center

Results

Single men

space	country	athlete	Points
1	RUS	Andrei Moiseyev	5632
2	LTU	Edvinas Krungolcas	5548
3	LTU	Andrejus Zadneprovskis	5524
4th	CHN	Qian Zenhua	5516
5	GER	Steffen Gebhardt	5480
6th	CZE	Michal Michalík	5460
7th	UKR	Pavlo Tymoschenko	5436
8th	MEX	Óscar Soto	5420
9	UKR	Dmytro Kirpuljanskyj	5416
10	GBR	Samuel Weale	5412
16	GER	Eric Walther	5288

Date: August 21, 2008
36 participants from 22 countries

Single women

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	GER	Lena Schöneborn	5792
2	GBR	Heather fur	5752
3	BLR	Nastassja Samusevich	5640
4th	CHN	Chen Qian	5612
5	POLE	Paulina Boenisz	5564
6th	GBR	Katy Livingston	5548
7th	EGY	Aya Medany	5544
8th	FRA	Amélie Cazé	5536
9	CHN	Xiu Xiu	5464
10	SUI	Belinda Schreiber	5464
28	GER	Eva Trautmann	5028

Date: August 22, 2008
36 participants from 23 countries

After a retest doping sample was Wiktorija Tereschtschuk on 1 March 2017 by the IOC the bronze medal for doping disallowed . In September 2018, Nastassja Samusevich moved up to third place.

The participation of the American Sheila Taormina , who came in 19th place, is remarkable . She played her fourth Olympic Games, where she had competed in three different sports. In 1996 she started as a swimmer and won the gold medal in the 4 × 200 m relay. In 2000 and 2004 she competed in triathlons.

Qualification criteria

Each National Olympic Committee could nominate a maximum of two men and two women. The 2007 and 2008 World Championships, the individual continental eliminations in 2007 and the World Cup final in 2007 served as qualifying competitions. Three further starting places were distributed by invitation. The remaining starting places, the number of which (between 10 and 16) depended on the extent to which the athletes qualified in the above-mentioned competitions overlapped, were allocated based on the world rankings from June 2008.

Web links

• Modern pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 2008 Summer Olympics (PDF, 25.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , March 1, 2017, accessed on January 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Anastasiya Prokopenko (BLR) receives Beijing 2008 Olympic bronze medal. In: uipmworld.org. Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne , September 17, 2018, accessed on December 8, 2018 .