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Olympic symbol of five rings represent the five-phase competition as well as representing the five major regions of the world competing in the Games (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.)
The phases of the modern pentathlon were designed to test a “Napoleonic courier,” a military runner who may have to run, swim or ride his way across country, defending himself in a variety of ways to carry an important missive cross-country to allies or from a battlefront to officers in the rear.
Competitors earn points for their performances in each of the five disciplines in the one-day competition. At the junior world championship level, the shooting phase is on 20 targets with an air pistol and pellets. The swimming phase is 200 meters (freestyle.) The run is 3000 meters (about 2 1/2 miles.) The fencing is an “epee” competition in which every competitor faces every other competitor, cme on one, in a “one touch” one minute bout.
The show jumping phase, considered hardest for many competitors most of whom did not have an equestrian background, is a course of 12 fences set at 3”7” — similar to a preliminary level three-day event.
In the riding phase, competitors ride “borrowed” hors
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