Women’s individual events are first staged at the Sydney Olympics, with the first gold being claimed by British doctor Stephanie Cook. Dmitri Svatkovsky of Russia takes the men’s title in Sydney.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, 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 ...

All works entered into these categories, collectively named the Pentathlon of the Muses, would need to be inspired by sports, ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

Modern pentathlon — which historically has seen athletes competing in show jumping, fencing, swimming, shooting and running — is a sport inspired by the ancient pentathlon and tests athletes ...

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