Max Esposito

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Max Esposito
Personal information
Nickname(s)Maxibon, Maxi
Born (1997-06-16) 16 June 1997 (age 25)
Camden, New South Wales, Australia
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
Sport Modern pentathlon
ClubNSW Modern Pentathlon
Coached by Daniel Esposito

Max Esposito (born 16 June 1997) is an Australian modern pentathlete. [1] He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's event. [2] He was the youngest athlete in the race and finished seventh. [3] Esposito has also competed in one Youth Olympic Games and one World Modern Pentathlon Championships. [4]

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Early life

Max Esposito is the son of Daniel Esposito, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the modern pentathlon. [5] His sister Chloe Esposito won a gold medal in the women's modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics [5] and another sister, Emily, is a sports shooter who competed at the 2010 Youth Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games. [6] Esposito was born in Camden, a town south-west of Sydney. [1] He now lives in the Hungarian city of Budapest. [1] Esposito took up the sport of modern pentathlon at the age of 13. [1]

Competition

Esposito's first international competition was in 2013 when he competed at the Oceanian Championships in Kazakhstan. [1] He finished in first place and that result, along with another win at the 2014 International Youth A Championships, qualified him for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. [1] Esposito finished 17th in the individual boys event and 12th in the mixed relay event. [1] In October 2014 Esposito competed at the 2014 Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne International Youth Championships in Tata, Hungary. [4] He finished fifth in the individual event. [4]

On 30 May 2015 in Beijing, China the Asia/Oceania Championships were held. [4] The event doubled as qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [4] Esposito won the event and he and his sister Chloe, who won the women's event, became the first Australian athletes to qualify for the 2016 Games. [5] He then competed in the 2015 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in the men's individual event, finishing 47th. [4]

Esposito's next major competition was the 2016 Olympics. Coming into the final discipline, the run and shooting combined, he was ranked 17th and conceded a 45 second handicap to the lead athlete. [3] Esposito competed the combined course in the fourth quickest time out of all the athletes and climbed ten places to finish seventh. [7] His total points score was 1462. [7] After the Olympics Esposito competed in the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne Junior World Championships in Cairo, Egypt. [4] Esposito finished ninth with a score of 1388 points. [8] He finished 41 points behind Guatemalan Charles Fernandez. [8]

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