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The 2010 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 1 to 7 to September 2010. [1]
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The 2010 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 1 to 7 to September 2010. [1]
| Event |  |  |  |
| Individual |  | |  |
| Team | Justinas Kinderis Edvinas Krungolcas Tomas Makarovas |  Ondřej Polívka Michal Sedlecky David Svoboda |  Ádám Marosi Róbert Kasza Robert Nemeth |
| Relay |  Mihail Prokopenko Mikhail Mitsyk Dzmitry Meliakh |  Jung Hwon-ho Nam Dong-hoon Kim Soeng-jin | Andrey Moiseyev Ilia Frolov Aleksander Lesun |
| Event | | | |
| Individual |  | |  |
| Team | Amélie Cazé Elfie Arnaud Anais Eudes |  Heather Fell Samantha Murray Freyja Prentice | Lena Schöneborn Annika Schleu Eva Trautmann |
| Relay | Polina Struchtkova Evdokia Gretchichnikova Ekaterina Khuraskina | Amélie Cazé Elfie Arnaud Elodie Cluval |  Chen Qian Miao Yihua Zhang Ye |
| Event | | | |
| Relay |  Sylvia Czwojdzinska Remigiusz Golis |  Victoria Tereshchuk Pavlo Tymoshchenko | Donata Rimšaitė Justinas Kinderis |
* Host nation (China)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (12 nations) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five different events; fencing, freestyle swimming (200 m), equestrian show jumping, and a final combined event of pistol shooting and cross country running (3200 m). This last event is now referred to as the laser-run, since it alternates four legs of laser pistol shooting followed by an 800 m run. The event is inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during the ancient Olympics; as the original events were patterned on the skills needed by an ideal Greek soldier of the era, the modern pentathlon is similarly patterned on events representing the skills needed by cavalry behind enemy lines.
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