Modern pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Modern pentathlon at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |
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Olympic Modern Pentathlon Centre | |
Dates | 26 – 27 August 2004 |
Competitors | 64 from 26 nations |
Modern pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
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men | women | |
The
The Eastern European nations continued to dominate in the men's event as
Format
Modern pentathlon contained five events;
. They were held in that order, with each segment awarding points to competitors based on their performance in the segment. The points from each of the events were summed to give a final ranking; in addition, the running segment at the end of the day used a staggered start designed so that the order in which runners finished would be the same as their ranking by total points.Qualification
Qualification for the modern pentathlon event was run by the
Qualification tournaments were:
- 2002 World Cup Final - first place
- 2003 World Championships - top three places
- 2003 World Cup Final - top two places
- 2003-04 Continental championships:
- Africa - first place
- Asia - top two places
- Oceania - first place
- North America - first place
- South America - first place
- Europe - top three places
- 2004 World Championships - top nine places
- 2004 World Cups - top two places in each of the three competitions
In addition, the host nation was guaranteed at least one competitor in each gender if none qualified as above, and the Tripartite Commission allocated one invitational place. If more than one of the qualification places was won by a single competitor or more than two were won by a single NOC, the field was brought up to 32 competitors by selecting the highest-rated pentathlete on the UIPM ranking list of 1 June 2004.
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's |
Andrejus Zadneprovskis Lithuania |
Libor Capalini Czech Republic | |
Women's |
Zsuzsanna Vörös Hungary |
Jeļena Rubļevska Latvia |
Georgina Harland Great Britain |
Medal summary
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Russia (RUS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
3 | Latvia (LAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
5 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
References
- ^ "About Modern Pentathlon". Pentathlon.org. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ^ "Modern Pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 July 2020.