Combined events at the Olympics combined event featured on the programme, as happened at the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the Greeks introduced a variation of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon. This contained four track and field events – standing long jump, ancient-style discus throw, javelin throw and a stadion race (192 m) – with the final event being Greco-Roman wrestling. American Martin Sheridan was the initial favourite, having already won gold and silver medals in individual jump and throws events, but dropped out due to injury. Lawson Robertson and István Mudin each won two of the rounds (Robertson the long jump and stadion, Mudin the discus
Singapore at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medal for Singapore in the women's team event against South Korea. Singapore has qualified one athlete for the women's events. This is the first time a Singaporean canoeist has qualified for the Olympic games. Geraldine managed to qualify for the semi-finals for the K-1 500 m event. She was eventually placed twenty-first out of 24 competitors in the event, beating her own target of bettering at least one other country. Lim Heem Wei is the only Singaporean gymnast to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic games, and the first ever Singaporean gymnast to qualify for an Olympic games.