Modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Thirty-six athletes per male and female gender must qualify for the Games, with only a maximum of two each per NOC. Qualification methods are similarly applied to both men's and women's events.[2]

Host nation Japan has been guaranteed one quota place automatically, while two invitational positions are distributed by the UIPM once the rest of the qualifiers are announced and thereby decided.[2]

The initial distribution of berths to the athletes based on competition results occur between February and September 2019. One place will be handily awarded to the winner of the 2019 UIPM World Cup final. Twenty places are determined by the continental championships: one each from Africa and Oceania, five from Asia, eight from Europe, and five from the Americas with a maximum of one quota per NOC (two winners each from NORCECA and South America, and the highest-ranked from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru).[2]

Three places have been reserved to the highest-ranked athletes at each of the 2019 and 2020 UIPM World Championships. The remaining six will be awarded based on the pentathlon's world rankings, unless a reallocation of unused berths have been invoked before the deadline.[2]

Qualification summary

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NOC Men Women Total
  Argentina 1 1
  Australia 1 1 2
  Austria 1 1
  Belarus 1 2 3
  Brazil 1 1
  Chile 1 1
  China 2 2 4
  Cuba 1 1 2
  Czech Republic 2 2
  Ecuador 1 1
  Egypt 2 2 4
  France 2 2 4
  Germany 2 2 4
  Great Britain 2 2 4
  Guatemala 1 1
  Hungary 2 2 4
  Ireland 1 1
  Italy 2 2
  Japan 1 2 3
  Kazakhstan 1 1 2
  Latvia 1 1
  Lithuania 1 2 3
  Mexico 2 2 4
  Poland 2 1 3
  ROC 1 2 3
  South Korea 2 2 4
  Spain 1 1
  Turkey 1 1
  Ukraine 1 1
  United States 1 1 2
  Uzbekistan 1 1 2
Total: 31 NOCs 36 36 72

Men's

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Individual athletes may qualify in any of the following methods, ensuring that an NOC may enter up to a maximum of two in each event. If more than two athletes are eligible to compete, a non-selected quota has been redistributed.

Event Date Venue Places Qualified athletes
2019 UIPM World Cup Final 27–30 June 2019   Tokyo[3] 1   Joe Choong (GBR)
African Championships 23 February 2019   Cairo 0   Sherif Nazeir (EGY)
2019 Pan American Games July 27–30, 2019   Lima 2   Charles Fernández (GUA)
  Lester Ders (CUB)
2   Esteban Bustos (CHI)
  Sergio Villamayor (ARG)
1   Amro El-Geziry (USA)
European Championships August 6–11, 2019   Bath 7   Jamie Cooke (GBR)
  Valentin Prades (FRA)
  Martin Vlach (CZE)
  Łukasz Gutkowski (POL)
  Bence Demeter (HUN)
  Justinas Kinderis (LTU)
  Alexander Lifanov (ROC)
  Patrick Dogue (GER)
2019 UIPM World Championships 3–9 September 2019   Budapest 2   Valentin Belaud (FRA)
  Jun Woong-tae (KOR)
Asia & Oceania Championships 11–21 November 2019   Kunming 4   Lee Ji-hun (KOR)
  Luo Shuai (CHN)
  Pavel Ilyashenko (KAZ)
  Shohei Iwamoto (JPN)
  Alexander Savkin (UZB)
1   Edward Fernon (AUS)
2021 UIPM World Championships 8–14 June 2021   Cairo 2   Ádám Marosi (HUN)
  Ahmed El-Gendy (EGY)
Pentathlon World Ranking 14 June 2021 8   Fabian Liebig (GER)
  Ilya Palazkov (BLR)
  Pavlo Tymoshchenko (UKR)
  Jan Kuf (CZE)
  Sebastian Stasiak (POL)
  Aleix Heredia (ESP)
  Zhang Linbin (CHN)
  Pāvels Švecovs (LAT)
  Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe (IRL) [4]
  Alvaro Sandoval (MEX)
Reallocation (World Ranking) 6   Ahmed Hamed (EGY)
  Jung Jin-hwa (KOR)
  Róbert Kasza (HUN)
  Li Shuhan (CHN)
  Gustav Gustenau (AUT)
  Duilio Carrillo (MEX)
Total 36

Women's

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Individual athletes may qualify in any of the following methods, ensuring that an NOC may enter up to a maximum of two in each event. If more than two athletes are eligible to compete, a non-selected quota has been redistributed.

Event Date Venue Places Qualified athletes
2019 UIPM World Cup Final 27–30 June 2019   Tokyo[3] 1   Laura Asadauskaitė (LTU)
African Championships 23 February 2019   Cairo 1   Haydy Morsy (EGY)
2019 Pan American Games July 27–30, 2019   Lima 2   Mariana Arceo (MEX)
  Samantha Achterberg (USA)
2   Maria Ieda Guimarães (BRA)
  Marcela Cuaspud (ECU)
1   Leydi Moya (CUB)
European Championships August 6–11, 2019   Bath 6   Kate French (GBR)
  Iryna Prasiantsova (BLR)
  Annika Schleu (GER)
  Natalya Coyle (IRL)
  Gintarė Venčkauskaitė (LTU)
  Marie Oteiza (FRA)
  Adelina Ibatullina (ROC)
  Sarolta Kovács (HUN)
2019 UIPM World Championships 3–9 September 2019   Budapest 2   Volha Silkina (BLR)
  Elena Micheli (ITA)
Asia & Oceania Championships 11–21 November 2019   Kunming 5   Kim Se-hee (KOR)
  Natsumi Tomonaga (JPN)
  Alise Fakhrutdinova (UZB)
  Zhang Mingyu (CHN)
  Yelena Potapenko (KAZ)
1   Rebecca Jamieson (NZL)[a]
  Marina Carrier (AUS)
2021 UIPM World Championships 8–14 June 2021   Cairo 3   Anastasiya Prokopenko (BLR)
  Élodie Clouvel (FRA)
  Michelle Gulyas (HUN)
Pentathlon World Ranking 14 June 2021 7   Joanna Muir (GBR)
  Mayan Oliver (MEX)
  Gulnaz Gubaydullina (ROC)
  Janine Kohlmann (GER)
  Anna Maliszewska (POL)
  İlke Özyüksel (TUR)
  Rena Shimazu (JPN)
  Kim Sun-woo (KOR)
Reallocation (World Ranking) 5   Zhang Xiaonan (CHN)
  Amira Kandil (EGY)
  Rebecca Langrehr (GER)
  Alice Sotero (ITA)
  Uliana Batashova (ROC)
Total 36

Notes

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  1. ^ New Zealand declined its quota spot in February 2020.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". IOC. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Modern Pentathlon" (PDF). UIPM. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b Palmer, Dan (25 July 2017). "Tokyo to host 2019 UIPM World Cup Final as Olympic test event". Inside the Games. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Kilkenny's Arthur Lanigan O'Keeffe to miss Olympic Games".
  5. ^ Larkin, Steve (11 February 2020). "Aussie pentathlete gets Olympic selection". Southern Highland News. Retrieved 16 February 2020.