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The Modern Pentathlon World Cup is an annual series of modern pentathlon competitions, with four events taking place in the regular season and the top 36 female and top 36 male athletes qualifying to compete in the World Cup Final. It was first held in 1999.
Modern Pentathlon Park at the Palace of Versailles. Modern pentathlon contains five events; pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200-metre freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3.2-kilometre cross-country run. [5] The first three events (fencing, swimming, and show jumping) are scored on a points system.
The horse riding event in modern pentathlon has been debated - for different reasons - since the invention of the sport. [4] Coubertin and the organisers of the 1912 Summer Olympics had different views on the availability of horses: Coubertin wanted randomly assigned horses provided by the hosts while the Swedish committee preferred that the competitors bring their own horses.
The modern pentathlon is a multi-sport event. In men's track and field, pentathlon competitions were held in the 20th century, but the ten-event decathlon became the standard multi-event contest. The International Women's Sports Federation was established in 1921 and the first reported pentathlon was in the 1922 Women's Olympiad in Monte Carlo. [2]
The athletics pentathlon was a modern variation on the original events, with a competition over five track and field events. The modern pentathlon , invented by Pierre de Coubertin (father of the Modern Olympics), was a variation on the military aspect of the Ancient pentathlon.
Modern pentathlon contains five events; pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200.0 metres (656.2 ft) freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3.200 kilometres (1.988 mi) cross-country run. [1] The first three events (fencing, swimming, and show jumping) were scored on a points system.
Modern pentathlon spent much of the 2010s trying to justify its Olympic existence, and an incident in Tokyo in 2021 might well have spelled the end of the sport as an Olympic event.
The modern pentathlon at the 2022 Asian Games was held at the Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre, Hangzhou, China from 20 to 24 September 2023. [ 1 ] Modern pentathlon contains five events; pistol shooting , épée fencing , 200-metre freestyle swimming , show jumping , and a 3.2-kilometre cross-country run .