Modern Pentathlon
Olympic sport
since 1912
Modern Pentathlon is the 6th newest sport added into the Olympics both summer and winter. The sport is well known as the true Olympian sport or called “true Olympic sport”. It is supposed to be an educational sport which was what the founder of the modern Olympics; Pierre de Coubertin wanted it to be. It is a very physical sport like running and swimming. Though it is very physical it involves mind when playing shooting and on the intelligence side is what you need for fencing. The final sport is horse riding.