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2015 European Modern Pentathlon Championships | |
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Venue | University of Bath |
Location | Bath, United Kingdom |
Dates | 17–23 August |
The 2015 European Modern Pentathlon Championships was held in Bath, Great Britain from 17 to 23 August 2015. [1]
The event was a direct qualification event for the 2016 Summer Olympics, with the eight highest finishers in the men's and women's individual events gaining quota places for their National Olympic Committee at the 2016 Games.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Relay | Italy Camilla Lontano Valerio Grasselli | Belarus Katsiaryna Arol Ilya Palazkov | Russia Donata Rimshayte Aleksandr Kukarin |
* Host nation (Great Britain)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | France | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
2 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
4 | Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
5 | Great Britain* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
8 | Russia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
9 | Belarus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
11 | Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
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