Modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's
The men's modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held on 11 August. Three venues were used: the Copper Box, Aquatics Centre and Greenwich Park.
David Svoboda from the Czech Republic won the gold medal with an Olympic record-breaking score of 5,926 points. Cao Zhongrong, 2010 Asian Games gold medalist, won China's first ever Olympic medal in modern pentathlon, taking the silver. Meanwhile, Hungary's Ádám Marosi claimed the bronze medal. For the first time in the post-Soviet era, Russia missed out of the medal podium in the men's event, as current world champion Aleksander Lesun and defending champion Andrey Moiseev finished fourth and seventh place, respectively.
Competition format
The modern pentathlon consisted of five events, with all five held in one day. The format was slightly different from the typical modern pentathlon, with two events combined at the end.- Fencing: A round-robin, one-touch épée competition. Score was based on winning percentage.
- Swimming: A 200 m freestyle race. Score was based on time.
- Horse-riding: A show jumping competition. Score based on penalties for fallen bars, refusals, falls, and being over the time limit.
- Combined running/shooting: A 3 km run with pistol shooting every 1 km. Starts are staggered so that the first to cross the finish line wins.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Round |
| Saturday, 11 August 2012 | 08:45 | Fencing |
| Saturday, 11 August 2012 | 13:20 | Swimming |
| Saturday, 11 August 2012 | 15:20 | Riding |
| Saturday, 11 August 2012 | 19:00 | Combined running/shooting |
Results
Thirty-six athletes participated.| Rank | Athlete | Country | Fencing Victories | Swimming Time | Riding Time | Combined Time | Total |
| David Svoboda | 26 | 2:04.84 | 10:33.02 | 5928 | |||
| Cao Zhongrong | 25 | 1:58.93 | 10:38.02 | 5904 | |||
| Ádám Marosi | 20 | 2:02.08 | 10:45.72 | 5836 | |||
| Aleksander Lesun | 25 | 2:04.29 | 11:05.83 | 5764 | |||
| Steffen Gebhardt | 20 | 2:07.08 | 10:37.16 | 5756 | |||
| Thomas Daniel | 17 | 2:09.23 | 10:24.02 | 5744 | |||
| Andrey Moiseev | 22 | 2:02.71 | 11:05.28 | 5736 | |||
| Justinas Kinderis | 15 | 2:04.35 | 10:19.34 | 5732 | |||
| Riccardo De Luca | 16 | 2:08.29 | 10:32.34 | 5720 | |||
| 10 | Nicholas Woodbridge | 17 | 1:57.32 | 11:01.66 | 5716 | ||
| 11 | Jung Jin-Hwa | 16 | 2:00.25 | 10:57.17 | 5676 | ||
| 12 | Róbert Kasza | 20 | 2:01.59 | 11:27.85 | 5676 | ||
| 13 | Samuel Weale | 17 | 2:03.40 | 11:00.00 | 5664 | ||
| 14 | Óscar Soto | 16 | 2:10.98 | 10:34.42 | 5656 | ||
| 15 | Ondřej Polívka | 12 | 2:02.71 | 10:25.99 | 5652 | ||
| 16 | Stanislau Zhurauliou | 20 | 2:06.80 | 10:58.10 | 5648 | ||
| 17 | Christopher Patte | 16 | 2:05.99 | 10:43.96 | 5620 | ||
| 18 | Esteban Bustos | 15 | 2:10.52 | 10:38.72 | 5604 | ||
| 19 | Deniss Čerkovskis | 23 | 2:10.78 | 10:46.88 | 5576 | ||
| 20 | Nicola Benedetti | 17 | 2:18.47 | 10:16.92 | 5568 | ||
| 21 | Rustem Sabizkhuzin | 19 | 2:13.21 | 10:49.57 | 5564 | ||
| 22 | Shinichi Tomii | 18 | 2:01.19 | 11:19.13 | 5552 | ||
| 23 | Pavlo Tymoshchenko | 13 | 2:08.15 | 10:48.37 | 5524 | ||
| 24 | Szymon Staśkiewicz | 14 | 2:11.54 | 10:56.31 | 5516 | ||
| 25 | Arthur Lanigan O'Keeffe | 14 | 2:02.44 | 11:08.69 | 5516 | ||
| 26 | Stefan Köllner | 16 | 2:11.71 | 10:59.16 | 5488 | ||
| 27 | Edward Fernon | 14 | 2:13.10 | 10:48.19 | 5480 | ||
| 28 | Yasser Hefny | 17 | 2:05.90 | 11:25.53 | 5440 | ||
| 29 | Pavel Iliashenko | 15 | 2:06.62 | 10:49.80 | 5432 | ||
| 30 | Dzmitry Meliakh | 17 | 2:03.67 | 11:33.18 | 5380 | ||
| 31 | Andrei Gheorghe | 15 | 2:13.89 | 11:15.58 | 5368 | ||
| 32 | Dennis Bowsher | 12 | 2:05.15 | 10:25.09 | 5324 | ||
| 33 | Amro El-Geziry | 18 | 1:55.70 | 11:42.44 | 5292 | ||
| 34 | Hwang Woo-Jin | 14 | 2:01.14 | 12:08.88 | 4908 | ||
| 35 | Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy | 17 | 2:04.83 | 11:18.80 | 4740 | ||
| 36 | Wang Guan | 12 | 2:12.13 | 1904 |