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 ...

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).

Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium ... Play the game to take part in the pentathlon and save the bronze discus from the master of thievery.

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 sport of modern pentathlon was dominated by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. In the women’s event, Kate French reigned supreme, securing Great Britain’s first modern pentathlon Olympic medal ...

Though horses have been part of the Olympic modern pentathlon since ... shooting and running — is a sport inspired by the ancient pentathlon and tests athletes in skills needed by 19th century ...

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 ...

Paris 2024 Olympics - Modern Pentathlon - Men's SF A Riding Show Jumping - Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France - August 09, 2024. Ahmed Elgendy of Egypt riding Talisman des Noues*IFCE in action.