Modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics
| Men's modern pentathlon at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
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| Dates | July 20–24 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 43 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
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Anatoly Starostin |
 Soviet Union
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Tamás Szombathelyi |
 Hungary
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Pavel Lednev |
Soviet Union
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The modern pentathlon at the 1980 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 which were held in 4 venues:
A total of 43 athletes from 17 nations competed at the Moscow Games:
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