Modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Men's modern pentathlon
at the Games of the V Olympiad
DatesJuly 7–12, 1912
Competitors32 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) James Thorpe  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gösta Åsbrink  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Georg de Laval  Sweden
1920 →

Modern pentathlon was first contested at the Olympic Games at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.[1] The sport was invented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

A lost points system was used, in which the athlete lost the same number of points corresponding to his position in each modality. Thus, the first position resulted in 1 Lost Point, the second position 2 Lost Points, and so on. At the end, the classification was obtained by adding up the lost points, and the placements were assigned in ascending order of the number of points lost by each competitor.

  1. ^ "Modern pentathlon: 1912 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2012-06-24.

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