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Modern Pentathlon at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games:
Men's Individual
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Host City: Barcelona, Spain
Venue(s): Bernat Picornell Pools, Barcelona; Mollet Olympic Shooting Range, Mollet del Vallès; Palace of Metallurgy, Barcelona; Pau Negre Stadium, Barcelona; Royal Polo Club, Barcelona
Date Started: July 26, 1992
Date Finished: July 29, 1992
Format: Scoring by point tables.
| Gold: |  Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek |
| Silver: |  Attila Mizsér |
| Bronze: |  Eduard Zenovka |
Summary
The 1991 World Champion was Poland’s Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek. He started strongly with a second place in the fencing. He moved into the lead after three phases, leading Russian Eduard Zenovka. The course for the cross-country run was very hilly, and high heat (35° C. [95 F°]), made the event very difficult for the pentathletes. In the run, Skrzypaszek placed only 23rd, and Zenkova’s third-place moved him into the lead after four phases – 4,625-4,519. The 106 point lead was huge for the modern pentathlon, but Zenovka was not known to be a strong rider. In the final phase, he fell off his horse twice, and placed only 56th of 66 riders. His score of only 736 points dropped him to third place and a bronze medal. Skrzypaszek was steady, finishing 13th on the horse to win the gold medal. It was the first time since 1951 that the reigning World Champion won the Olympic gold medal.
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek | 24 | Poland | POL | Gold | 5,559 | |
| 2 | Attila Mizsér | 31 | Hungary | HUN | Silver | 5,446 | |
| 3 | Eduard Zenovka | 23 | Unified Team | EUN | Bronze | 5,361 | |
| 4 | Anatoly Starostin | 32 | Unified Team | EUN | 5,347 | ||
| 5 | Roberto Bomprezzi | 29 | Italy | ITA | 5,326 | ||
| 6 | Håkan Norebrink | 27 | Sweden | SWE | 5,321 | ||
| 7 | Marian Gheorghe | 29 | Romania | ROU | 5,293 | ||
| 8 | Graham Brookhouse | 30 | Great Britain | GBR | 5,292 | ||
| 9 | Michael Gostigian | 29 | United States | USA | 5,275 | ||
| 10 | Dariusz Goździak | 29 | Poland | POL | 5,254 | ||
| 11 | Sébastien Deleigne | 25 | France | FRA | 5,251 | ||
| 12 | Carlo Massullo | 34 | Italy | ITA | 5,250 | ||
| 13 | Richard Phelps | 31 | Great Britain | GBR | 5,246 | ||
| 14 | Petr Blažek | 31 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 5,239 | ||
| 15 | Gintaras Staškevičius | 28 | Lithuania | LTU | 5,234 | ||
| 16 | Peter Steinmann | 30 | Switzerland | SUI | 5,232 | ||
| 17 | Joël Bouzou | 36 | France | FRA | 5,216 | ||
| 18 | Dmitry Svatkovsky | 20 | Unified Team | EUN | 5,216 | ||
| 19 | Maciej Czyżowicz | 30 | Poland | POL | 5,205 | ||
| 20 | Rob Stull | 31 | United States | USA | 5,204 | ||
| 21 | Lee Yeong-Chan | 22 | South Korea | KOR | 5,198 | ||
| 22 | Dirk Knappheide | 25 | Germany | GER | 5,195 | ||
| 23 | Gianluca Tiberti | 25 | Italy | ITA | 5,184 | ||
| 24 | Iván Ortega | 21 | Mexico | MEX | 5,177 | ||
| 25 | James Haley | 23 | United States | USA | 5,170 | ||
| 26 | Kirils Medjancevs | 21 | Latvia | LAT | 5,154 | ||
| 27 | Jesús Centeno | 25 | Spain | ESP | 5,148 | ||
| 28 | Per Nyqvist | 28 | Sweden | SWE | 5,129 | ||
| 29 | Tomáš Fleissner | 31 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 5,128 | ||
| 30 | Gavin Lackey | 23 | Australia | AUS | 5,111 | ||
| 31 | Alexandros Nikolopoulos | 21 | Greece | GRE | 5,066 | ||
| 32 | László Fábián | 29 | Hungary | HUN | 5,064 | ||
| 33 | Attila Kálnoki Kis | 26 | Hungary | HUN | 5,061 | ||
| 34 | Moustafa Adam | 23 | Egypt | EGY | 5,057 | ||
| 35 | Alejandro Yrizar | 27 | Mexico | MEX | 5,056 | ||
| 36 | Dominic Mahony | 28 | Great Britain | GBR | 5,033 | ||
| 37 | Leopoldo Centeno | 25 | Spain | ESP | 5,018 | ||
| 38 | Kim Myeong-Geon | 22 | South Korea | KOR | 5,015 | ||
| 39 | Imre Tiidemann | 21 | Estonia | EST | 4,980 | ||
| 40 | Per-Olov Danielsson | 23 | Sweden | SWE | 4,978 | ||
| 41 | Christophe Ruer | 27 | France | FRA | 4,974 | ||
| 42 | Stefan Asenov | 20 | Bulgaria | BUL | 4,963 | ||
| 43 | Ian Soellner | 23 | Canada | CAN | 4,945 | ||
| 44 | Mohamed Abdou El-Souad | 23 | Egypt | EGY | 4,922 | ||
| 45 | Ulrich Czermak | 24 | Germany | GER | 4,893 | ||
| 46 | Valentin Dzhavelkov | 24 | Bulgaria | BUL | 4,866 | ||
| 47 | Sergio Sánchez | 21 | Guatemala | GUA | 4,860 | ||
| 48 | Hiroshi Miyagahara | 27 | Japan | JPN | 4,859 | ||
| 49 | Pawel Olszewski | 30 | Germany | GER | 4,843 | ||
| 50 | Trevor Strydom | 34 | South Africa | RSA | 4,820 | ||
| 51 | Vladimiras Močialovas | 24 | Lithuania | LTU | 4,805 | ||
| 52 | Stanislavs Dobrotovskis | 30 | Latvia | LAT | 4,796 | ||
| 53 | Manuel Barroso | 28 | Portugal | POR | 4,719 | ||
| 54 | Alberto Félix | 23 | Mexico | MEX | 4,701 | ||
| 55 | Carles Lerín | 30 | Spain | ESP | 4,694 | ||
| 56 | Zhang Bin | 22 | China | CHN | 4,670 | ||
| 57 | Jiří Prokopius | 25 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 4,635 | ||
| 58 | Colin Hamilton | 26 | Australia | AUS | 4,594 | ||
| 59 | Laurie Shong | 21 | Canada | CAN | 4,579 | ||
| 60 | Sherif El-Erian | 21 | Egypt | EGY | 4,538 | ||
| 61 | Kim In-Ho | 22 | South Korea | KOR | 4,503 | ||
| 62 | Tomas Narkus | 22 | Lithuania | LTU | 4,281 | ||
| 63 | Alex Watson | 34 | Australia | AUS | 4,279 | ||
| 64 | Vjačeslavs Duhanovs | 19 | Latvia | LAT | 3,803 | ||
| 65 | Luis Alberto Urteaga | 31 | Peru | PER | 3,503 | ||
| 66 | Daniel Pereyra | 30 | Uruguay | URU | 2,929 |