There are 5 different competitions in an Olympic penthathlon. They consist of Fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping and a combined final event of pistol shooting and a 3200 m run.
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There are five different events in a pentathlon. The modern pentathlon in the Olympics includes freestyle swimming, fencing, show jumping, pistol shooting, and 3200 meter cross country race..
its got five parts
"Deca" means "ten" so in the Olympic Decathlon there are 10 events. Similarly "penta" means "five" so a Pentathlon has 5 events.
Four times. Jim Fox competed in individual modern pentathlon and team modern pentathlon at the 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Olympics. He won gold in team modern pentathlon at the 1976 Games.
Mary won 1 Olympic medal ... a gold in women's pentathlon at the 1972 Games in Munich.
There are 28 competitions but some have different variations within them!
Ireland has competed in many things, and has many Olympic medallists, and winners in all sorts of sports and competitions.
The 2008 Games is Angie Darby's first Olympic Games. The modern pentathlon will be competed on the 21st and 22nd of August.
2 - Thorpe won gold in the Pentathlon and Decathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
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