Modern pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

of Germany won the women's.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Andrey Moiseev  Russia	Edvinas Krungolcas  Lithuania	Andrejus Zadneprovskis  Lithuania
Women's details [a]	Lena Schöneborn  Germany	Heather Fell  Great Britain	Anastasiya Samusevich  Belarus

^a The original bronze medalist, Victoria Tereshchuk of Ukraine was disqualified for doping violations.

Qualified athletes

Men

An NOC may enter up to 2 athletes in each event. The places in each event will be allocated as follows:

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Athletes
2007 African Championship	February 22–25, 2007	Cairo	1	Amro El Geziry
2007 Asian Championship	May 8–14, 2007	Tokyo	5	Nam Dong-Hun Lee Chun-Heon Cao Zhongrong Qian Zhenhua Yoshihiro Murakami
2007 Oceanian Championship	May 8–14, 2007	Tokyo	1	Alex Parygin ^
2007 European Championship	June 6–13, 2007	Riga	8	Andrey Moiseev Gábor Balogh Ilia Frolov Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy David Svoboda Dzmitry Meliakh
2007 Pan-American Games	July 21–22, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	4***	Yaniel Velazquez Joshua Riker-Fox Christian Bustos
2007 World Championships	Aug 16-21, 2007	Berlin	3	Viktor Horváth* Ilia Frolov* Róbert Németh**
2007 World Cup Final	September 15–16, 2007	Beijing	1	Edvinas Krungolcas
2008 World Championship	May 27 - Jun 1, 2008	Budapest	3	Ilia Frolov* David Svoboda* Yahor Lapo
Pentathlon World Ranking	June 1, 2008	-	7	Michal Michalik Deniss Čerkovskis
Host Nation (CHN)	-	-	1****	-
Invitation Places	-	-	2****	-
re-allocation of unused places*****	-	-	+	Jaime Lopez Pavlo Tymoshchenko Allan Casey Sam Sacksen Andrea Valentini John Zakrzewski Nick Woodbridge
TOTAL			36

Note: Athletes marked with an asterisk (*) have qualified before, countries with two asterisks (**) already filled their quota of two athletes. The free places cannot be filled by the next competitors from the respective competition, but they will be filled by the world standings at the end of the qualification period. (marked also with one or two asterisks)

*** Top finisher from NORCECA, top finisher from South America, and 2 next highest overall finishers from Pan-America.

**** Unused quotas

***** If one or more athletes qualify through more than 1 criteria, the remaining positions will be allocated through Pentathlon World Ranking

^ Qualification revoked.^[1]

Women

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Athletes
2007 African Championship	February 22–25, 2007	Cairo	1	Aya Medany
2007 Asian Championship	May 8–14, 2007	Tokyo	5	Yun Cho-Rong
2007 Oceanian Championship	May 8–14, 2007	Tokyo	1	Angela Darby
2007 European Championship	June 6–13, 2007	Riga	8	Lena Schoneborn Zsuzsanna Vörös Katy Livingston Claudia Corsini Sylwia Czwojdzinska
2007 Pan-American Games	July 21–22, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	4***	Marlene Sanchez
2007 World Championships	Aug 16-21, 2007	Berlin	3	Lena Schoneborn* Laura Asadauskaitė
2007 World Cup Final	September 15–16, 2007	Beijing	1	Aya Medany*
2008 World Championship	May 27 - Jun 1, 2008	Budapest	3	Amélie Caze* Aya Medany* Katy Livingston *
Pentathlon World Ranking	June 1, 2008	-	7	Lucie Grolichova Kara Grant Sheila Taormina
Host Nation (CHN)	-	-	1****	-
Invitation Places	-	-	2****	-
re-allocation of unused places*****	-	-	+	Donata Rimsaite Belinda Schreiber Omnia Fakhry Eva Trautmann
TOTAL			36

Note: See above, at the male section.

Event schedule

All times are

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  Shooting
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  Fencing
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  Swimming
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  Equestrian and running

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Modern pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

• Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne
• List of qualified athletes for the 2008 Olympic Games on the UIPM site.
• Modern Pentathlon – Official Results Book