Modern Pentathlon
Modern Pentathlon is an athletic competition for men and women to test
abilities in horseback riding, pistol
shooting, running, swimming, and
fencing.
Participants take part in all five events receiving a point score for
each event. The contestant with the
highest score wins. 
Modern Pentathlon is held in both team and individual teams.
Shooting is the first challenge. Participants have 40 seconds to take
each of their 20 shots on a 17-centimeter square target.
An air pistol is used and blasts are fired 10-meters away.
Next is fencing, where all competitors face each other in a round- robin,
each participant plays each participant competition.
Then its swimming, they race a 200- meter race being ranked by the personal best time. Athletes have 20 minutes to warm up to their horse until the final competition, horseback riding, begins. They race the 3,000 cross-country event. Athletes qualify by their races they participate in the two years before the Olympics. It is different from pentathlon, because pentathlon has five field and track events.
in the
1996
Games it was combined into one day, the one-day competition for the Modern
Pentathlon is continued through the rest of the Olympics.
For the first time in the 2000 Games there was a women’s modern
pentathlon.
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