2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships Explained

The 2011 World Modern Penthathlon Championship was held in Moscow, Russia from September 8 to September 14, 2011. The event was supposed to take place in Cairo but because of the 2011 Egyptian revolution it was moved to avoid any further political instability. The event includes pistol shooting, fencing, 200m swimming, show jumping and a 3 km run. For the first time laser pistols were used.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual
Team			Italy Nicola Benedetti Riccardo De Luca Auro Franceschini
Relay			Ukraine Pavlo Kirpulyanskyy Oleksandr Mordasov Pavlo Tymoshchenko

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual
Team			Evdokia Gretchichnikova Ekaterina Khuraskina Yuliya Kolegova
Relay			Ukraine Ganna Buriak Nataliia Levchenko Victoria Tereshchuk

Mixed events

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Medal table

	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Hungary	2	3	1	6
2.		2	2	1	5
3.	Ukraine	2	0	2	4
4.	Germany	1	1	0	2
5.		0	1	0	1
6.	Lithuania	0	0	2	2
7.	Italy	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References

• "Moscow snaps up Modern Pentathlon hosting rights."

Notes and References

1. http://www.pentathlon.org/media-centre/latest-news/item/745-uipm-awards-2011-senior-world-championships-to-moscow Pentathlon.org - UIPM Awards 2011 Senior World Championships to Moscow
2. Web site: Pentathlon.org - Competition Results . 2011-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111006181624/http://www.pentathlon.org/results/competition-results/results/pentathlon/740-uipm-senior-world-championships . 2011-10-06 . dead .