How To Use Pentathlon In A Sentence
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As host of the World Military Games, Brazil's aeronautical pentathlon team practiced full-time for months in advance.
A Strange Sports Medley
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American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe was the most outstanding, winning the track & field, pentathlon and decathlon.
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problem with keeping the term pentathlon for the modified competition in which shooting and running are combined into a single contest.
Language Log
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They show particular eminence in fencing, wrestling, pentathlon, swimming and canoeing.
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It's not including her numerous medals and trophies for triathlons, pentathlons and track and field events.
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So, legend has it, was born the modern pentathlon.
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His best sports are fencing and swimming; he has been swimming since he was six years old and started modern pentathlon at age 15
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Marcelo Feitosa A competitor in the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro prepares for the flying portion of the aeronautical pentathlon, one of the world's most obscure sports.
A Strange Sports Medley
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Baseball might be right up with pentathlon and synchronised swimming among sports of dubious Olympian pedigree.
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It's not including her numerous medals and trophies for triathlons, pentathlons and track and field events.
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As opposed to his European counterparts - who usually come into pentathlon from a swimming and fencing background - Fox's interest in the sport was piqued at age 12 when he was a member of a riding club and competing in tetrathlon.
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But it was during his sophomore year in high school after meeting a pentathlon athlete that he first took a hard look at his own possibilities in the sport.
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When the championships re-crossed the Atlantic to Canada in 1993 the heptathlon and pentathlon were added to the list of events.
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Competitors in the aeronautical pentathlon are an elite group, and not just because there are so few of them—less than 100.
The Aeronautical Pentathlon Has Six Events—and Flying Doesn't Count
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Two years later the ancient pentathlon was established in Greece.
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Synchronized swimming was held for the first time; other Olympic debuts were women's 400 meters hurdles and the heptathlon, replacing the pentathlon.
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There are between 3-5,000 people in the UK taking part in the biathlon on a regular basis, and around 10,000 people taking part in pony club tetrathlons, which is the main entrance point for the modern pentathlon.
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The first Olympic victor in the long jump was Lampis of Sparta, who in 708 B.C. won the pentathlon - a contest consisting of five separate events, including the long jump.
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An athlete who participates in a pentathlon.
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The pentathlon consists of running, swimming, riding, shooting, and fencing.
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If pentathlon loses its Olympic status, its supporters argue, the sport will wither and die.
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With him were his wife, Olga, an athlete who had also represented the Soviet Union in the pentathlon and heptathlon, and their two children.
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However, earlier on she had produced some creditable performances in her first four events in the senior women's pentathlon.
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The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm are best remembered for Jim Thorpe's world record successes in the most demanding track and field events, the pentathlon and the decathlon.
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I watch with awe as they compete in a triathlon, pentathlon or even a decathlon
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The regional project has challenged pupils to construct a ‘mechanical athlete’ that will compete in a mechanical pentathlon.
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He would recover, though, and go on to win the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 1996 Olympics.
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Let's have a big round of applause for our terrific pentathlon athletes!
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After winning the pentathlon at the Olympic Games, probably in 444 BC, he went on to write one of the first training manuals.
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The women's modern pentathlon is a great day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm are best remembered for Jim Thorpe's world record successes in the most demanding track and field events, the pentathlon and the decathlon.
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Modern pentathlon, which consists of shooting, fencing, swimming, showjumping and a 3,000m run, was designed for the Games as the test of a complete athlete.
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Aeronautical pentathlon—which inexplicably has six events—is a riff on the modern pentathlon at the Olympics.
The Aeronautical Pentathlon Has Six Events—and Flying Doesn't Count
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From this swashbuckling storyline modern pentathlon was born 100 years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was James's first Pentathlon and he was the youngest competitor in this event.
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You should have had Thorpe, the winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics who also played Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1919.
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Even if you managed to meet these requirements, there were still only a limited number of sports to compete in; foot races, discus, javelin, long jump, wrestling, boxing, the pentathlon and equestrian events.
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The contestants compete in a pentathlon with Olympic skater Apolo Ohno as their coach.
Sweeps Roundup: Nov. 14-20
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She watched as pupils competed in a pentathlon on the school field, before presenting awards to pupils judged to be either the best sportsperson, most improved sportsperson or most sportsmanlike pupil in their class.
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She won a gold medal in the pentathlon event at the 1972 Munich games.
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She set a British under-20 indoor pentathlon record, bettering the marks of two who would become Olympic champions, Denise Lewis and Sally Gunnell.
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Mary Peters, 1972 Olympic champion in the pentathlon, the forerunner of the heptathlon, describes her, wonderfully, as ‘part gazelle, part kangaroo’.
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The Olympic testing programme has been unfurling with a quiet precision and understated efficiency since May, such that the number of events that have already taken place, from modern pentathlon to mountain biking, would probably surprise you apparently there was even a trial of Wimbledon as the Olympic tennis venue – it was called the All England Championships and won by a Novak Djokovic.
Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John
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The guys who were best at the pentathlon wouldn't be the best at the specialty events, but people would admire their versatility and great skill.
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At the Beijing Olympics, she will compete in the five - sport modern pentathlon.
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Van Commenee, who will announce on Tuesday the athletes due to compete for the British team in Paris, was more hopeful for Ennis, the world indoor pentathlon champion.
Charles van Commenee rues spate of British athlete injuries
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The World Heritage Site of Greenwich will host Equestrian events and the Modern Pentathlon.
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Courtney is another athlete who was introduced to the sport of Modern Pentathlon in 2004 through competing in Pony Club triathlons and tetrathlons.
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Modern pentathlon was Modern Olympics by Pierre de Coubertin , the founder of modern Olympic Movement.
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Competitors in the aeronautical pentathlon are an elite group.
A Strange Sports Medley
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EXPERIENCE is crucial in modern pentathlon, the sport that demands the ability to balance varying physical and mental disciplines over years of training.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hunt, meanwhile, will have his talents heard by a wider range of listeners having been called up by 5 Live to commentate on the equestrian events and the modern pentathlon at next year's Olympics.
Tattenham Corner
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Thorpe was the sensation of the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and won the pentathlon and decathlon gold medals by huge margins.
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Marcelo Feitosa One of the quirks of aeronautical pentathlon is that, despite the name, the in-air competition does not directly decide the winner of the six-event sport.
A Strange Sports Medley
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For I think that what makes a pancratiast beautiful, makes a wrestler to be not good, and a runner to be most ridiculous; and he who is beautiful for the Pentathlon, is very ugly for wrestling.
The Discourses of Epictetus
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Nordic skiing is the one common denominator to all winter duathlons, triathlons, quadrathlons and pentathlons - some freestyle, some classic, some with a leg of each.
