- Modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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Modern pentathlon competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London are scheduled to be held on Saturday 11 August and Sunday 12 August 2012. The men's and women's events will each involve 36 athletes.[1] Venues for the events will be the Handball Arena, for fencing, the Aquatics Centre in Olympic Park for swimming and Greenwich Park, for the riding and combined running and shooting discipline.[2]
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Format
Modern pentathlon contains five events; pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run.[3] These will be the first Olympic Games in which the running and shooting events are combined; athletes face three rounds of shooting each followed by a 1 km run. Each of the three rounds of firing, athletes have to shoot five targets, loading the gun after each shot; they may then resume running. Misses are not penalised, but exceeding a maximum total time of 70 seconds will result in a penalty.[3]
There had been plans to replace the use of pistols with laser guns after a successful trial at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. The use of laser guns would have reduced the cost of the shooting section by approximately two-thirds and opened up new venues for the sport because of the increased levels of safety.[4] These plans were dropped following a vote of the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), the sport's world governing body.[5][6]
Qualification
For each gender 36 athletes will qualify for the Games, a maximum of two athletes per gender may qualify from any nation. Qualification methods are the same for both the men's and women's events.[7]
Host nation Great Britain are awarded one qualifying place automatically and two invitational positions will be allocated by the UPIM once the rest of the qualifiers are decided.[7]
The first allocation of places to athletes based on competition results will occur between January and August 2011. Five continental championships account for 19 places; one from Africa, four from the Pan-American, five from Asia, eight from Europe and one from Oceania. The winner of the 2011 World Cup Final, which will be held in London's Greenwich Park in July as the first official test event ahead of the Games will qualify. The top three placed athletes at 2011 World Championships in September, which were due to be held in Cairo, Egypt, but were moved to Moscow, Russia due to the 2011 Egyptian revolution, will also qualify.[7][8]
In May 2012 the top three ranked athletes, who have not yet qualified by other means, at the World Championships in Rome, May 2012 will be allocated places. The final seven places will be awarded based on pentathlon's world rankings as of 1 June 2012.[7]
Men
An NOC may enter up to 2 athletes in each event. The places in each event will be allocated as follows:
Event Date Location Vacancies Athletes qualified Host nation 1 2011 UIPM World Cup Final July 8-10, 2011 London
1 Robert Kasza
2011 Asian/Oceania Championships[9] May 19-22, 2011 Chengdu
5 Hong Jin-woo
Cao Zhongrong
Jung Jin-hwa
Shinichi Tomii
Wang Guan
1 Edward Fernen
African Championship[10] July 22-24, 2011 Cairo
1 Yasser Henfy
European Championship[11] July 28- August 1, 2011 Medway
8 Andrey Moiseev
Serguei Karyakin
Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy
James Cooke
Federico Giancamilli
Steffen Gebhardt
Pierpaolo Petroni
Dzmitry Meliakh
2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships September 8-14, 2011 Moscow
3 Adam Marosi
Thomas Daniel
Pavel Iliashenko
2011 Pan American Games October 15-16, 2011 Guadalajara
4 Oscar Soto
Andrei Gheorghe
Esteban Bustos
Dennis Bowsher
2012 World Modern Pentathlon Championships May 22-30, 2012 Rome
3 Pentathlon world ranking June 1, 2012 - 7 Invitational places - - 2 TOTAL 36 Women
An NOC may enter up to 2 athletes in each event. The places in each event will be allocated as follows:
Event Date Location Vacancies Athletes qualified Host nation 1 2011 UIPM World Cup Final July 8-10, 2011 London
1 Lena Schöneborn
2011 Asian/Oceania Championships[9] May 19-22, 2011 Chengdu
5 Chen Qian
Miao Yihua
Yang Soo-jin
Shino Yamanaka
Narumi Kurosu
1 Chloe Esposito
African Championship[10] July 22-24, 2011 Cairo
1 Aya Medany
European Championship July 28- August 1, 2011 Medway
8 Adrienn Toth
Victoria Tereshuk
Amelie Caze
Laura Asadauskaite
Elena Rublevska
Sarolta Kovacs
Freyja Prentice
Ekaterina Khuraskina
2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships September 8-14, 2011 Moscow
3 Evdokia Gretchichnikova
Elodie Clouvel
Yane Marques
2011 Pan American Games October 15-16, 2011 Guadalajara
4 Margaux Isaksen
Tamara Vega
Melanie McCann
Pamela Zapata
2012 World Modern Pentathlon Championships May 22-30, 2012 Rome
3 Pentathlon world ranking June 1, 2012 - 7 Invitational places - - 2 TOTAL 36 References
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- ^ "London 2012 Olympics: modern pentathlon guide". The Telegraph. 14 February 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/7905237/London-2012-Olympics-modern-pentathlon-guide.html. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ a b Branch, John (26 November 2008). "Modern Pentathlon Gets a Little Less Penta". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/sports/olympics/27pentathlon.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=%22John%20Branch%22&st=cse. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ "LONDON 2012: Olympic modern pentathlon to feature laser guns". morethanthegames.com. 23 August 2010. http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/london-2012/2312228-london-2012-olympic-modern-pentathlon-feature-laser-guns. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ Gilmour, Rod (7 November 2010). "London 2012 Olympics: laser guns dropped as modern pentathlon rules for air pistol". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/8115661/London-2012-Olympics-laser-guns-dropped-as-modern-pentathlon-rules-for-air-pistol.html. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ "Pentathlon drops plan to swap pistols for laser guns". BBC Sport. 7 November 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/modern_pentathlon/9164372.stm. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ a b c d "London 2012 Olympics qualifying: Modern Pentathlon". BBC Sport. 6 January 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/modern_pentathlon/9341843.stm. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ Pound, Matthew (25 March 2011). "UIPM Awards 2011 Senior World Championships to Moscow". Union International de Pentathlon Moderne. http://www.pentathlon.org/media-centre/latest-news/item/745-uipm-awards-2011-senior-world-championships-to-moscow. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ a b "12 Athletes Qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games". Union International de Pentathlon Moderne. http://pentathlon.org/component/k2/item/870-12-athletes-qualify-for-the-2012-olympic-games. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
- ^ a b "MEDANY AND HEFNY HAVE BOOKED THEIR TICKETS TO LONDON 2012". Union International de Pentathlon Moderne. http://pentathlon.org/component/k2/item/998-medany-and-hefny-have-booked-their-tickets-to-london-2012. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ "MOISEEV CROWNED EUROPEAN CHAMPION". Union International de Pentathlon Moderne. http://pentathlon.org/component/k2/item/1024-moiseev-crowned-european-champion. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
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