Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics The modern pentathlon at the 1976 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 47 athletes from 17 nations competed at the Montreal Games: Boris Onischenko was disqualified from the competition during the fencing event, when
Aruba at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Aruban Paralympic athlete to compete at the quadrennial event and was 22 years old at the time of the Games. He trained with his coach Jesus Arias de la Cruz in the run-up to the Paralympics. Since there were no Aruban athletes that met the standard qualifying times for swimming, Acevedo earned entry for the games by using a wild card. He was due to compete in the men's 50 metres freestyle S7 on 9 September but a miscommunication with organisers meant he was two minutes late for the start of the event and was subsequently disqualified. Acevedo vowed to