widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, spent two years lobbying for the new Games to include a modern version of the pentathlon event that was a key element of the ancient Olympics.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, succeeded in having a version of the ancient Games highlight of the Pentathlon incorporated into the 1912 ...

The ancient Olympics began in 776 B.C. with a single ... wrestling, boxing, a Pentathlon and a mixed martial arts forerunner called pankration. Only free Greek men were allowed to enter ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... Strange, I know… The pentathlon is a five-event contest combining running, jumping, discus, javelin and ...

The main event of the ancient games was the pentathlon. The Olympic Truce was established in Ancient Greece with the signing of a treaty between three kings. The truce prohibited combat between ...

Seventy-two athletes (36 men, 36 women) will compete in the men's and women's individual event competitions, respectively, with no more than two athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC).