Men's modern pentathlon at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
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Dates | October 13 - 17 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 48 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
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Björn Ferm | Sweden | ||
András Balczó | Hungary | ||
Pavel Lednev | Soviet Union |
The modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics was represented by two events (both for men): Individual competition and Team competition. As usual in Olympic modern pentathlon, one competition was held and each competitor's score was included to the Individual competition event results table and was also added to his teammates' scores to be included to the Team competition event results table. This competition consisted of 5 disciplines:
A total of 48 athletes from 18 nations competed at the Mexico Games: