Modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification
This article details the qualifying phase for modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Thirty-six athletes per male and female gender must qualify for the Games, with only a maximum of two each per NOC. Qualification methods are similarly applied to both men's and women's events.[2]
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Host nation Japan has been guaranteed one quota place automatically, while two invitational positions are distributed by the UIPM once the rest of the qualifiers are announced and thereby decided.[2]
The initial distribution of berths to the athletes based on competition results occur between February and September 2019. One place will be handily awarded to the winner of the 2019 UIPM World Cup final. Twenty places are determined by the continental championships: one each from Africa and Oceania, five from Asia, eight from Europe, and five from the Americas with a maximum of one quota per NOC (two winners each from NORCECA and South America, and the highest-ranked from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru).[2]
Three places have been reserved to the highest-ranked athletes at each of the 2019 and 2020 UIPM World Championships. The remaining six will be awarded based on the pentathlon's world rankings, unless a reallocation of unused berths have been invoked before the deadline.[2]
Qualification summary
| NOC | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina | 1 | 1 | |
 Australia | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Belarus | 2 | 2 | |
 Brazil | 1 | 1 | |
 Chile | 1 | 1 | |
 China | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Cuba | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | |
 Ecuador | 1 | 1 | |
 Egypt | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 France | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Guatemala | 1 | 1 | |
 Hungary | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Ireland | 1 | 1 | |
 Italy | 1 | 1 | |
 Japan | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Lithuania | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Mexico | 1 | 1 | |
 Poland | 1 | 1 | |
 Russia | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 South Korea | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 United States | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Uzbekistan | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total: 26 NOCs | 36 | 36 | 72 |
Men's
Individual athletes may qualify in any of the following methods, ensuring that an NOC may enter up to a maximum of two in each event. If more than two athletes are eligible to compete, a non-selected quota has been redistributed.
| Event | Date | Venue | Places | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 UIPM World Cup Final | June 27–30, 2019 | Tokyo[3] |
1 | Joe Choong (GBR) |
| African Championships | February 23, 2019 | Cairo |
1 | Sherif Nazeir (EGY) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | July 27–30, 2019 |  Lima |
2 | Charles Fernández (GUA) Lester Ders (CUB) |
| 2 | Esteban Bustos (CHI) Sergio Villamayor (ARG) | |||
| 1 | Amro El-Geziry (USA) | |||
| European Championships | August 6–11, 2019 | Bath |
8 | Jamie Cooke (GBR) Valentin Prades (FRA) Martin Vlach (CZE) Łukasz Gutkowski (POL) Bence Demeter (HUN) Justinas Kinderis (LTU) Alexander Lifanov (RUS) Patrick Dogue (GER) |
| 2019 UIPM World Championships | September 3–9, 2019 | Budapest |
2 | Valentin Belaud (FRA) Jun Woong-tae (KOR) |
| Asia & Oceania Championships | November 11–21, 2019 | Kunming |
5 | Lee Ji-hun (KOR) Luo Shuai (CHN) Pavel Ilyashenko (KAZ) Shohei Iwamoto (JPN) Alexander Savkin (UZB) |
| 1 | Edward Fernon (AUS) | |||
| 2020 UIPM World Championships | June 7–13, 2021 | Cairo |
3 | |
| Pentathlon World Ranking | June 14, 2021 | — | 8 | |
| Tripartite Invitation | — | — | 2 | |
| Total | 36 | |||
Women's
Individual athletes may qualify in any of the following methods, ensuring that an NOC may enter up to a maximum of two in each event. If more than two athletes are eligible to compete, a non-selected quota has been redistributed.
| Event | Date | Venue | Places | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 UIPM World Cup Final | June 27–30, 2019 | Tokyo[3] |
1 | Laura Asadauskaitė (LTU) |
| African Championships | February 23, 2019 | Cairo |
1 | Haydy Morsy (EGY) |
| 2019 Pan American Games | July 27–30, 2019 | Lima |
2 | Mariana Arceo (MEX) Samantha Achterberg (USA) |
| 2 | Maria Ieda Guimarães (BRA) Marcela Cuaspud (ECU) | |||
| 1 | Leydi Moya (CUB) | |||
| European Championships | August 6–11, 2019 | Bath |
8 | Kate French (GBR) Iryna Prasiantsova (BLR) Annika Schleu (GER) Natalya Coyle (IRL) Gintarė Venčkauskaitė (LTU) Marie Oteiza (FRA) Adelina Ibatullina (RUS) Sarolta Kovács (HUN) |
| 2019 UIPM World Championships | September 3–9, 2019 | Budapest |
2 | Volha Silkina (BLR) Elena Micheli (ITA) |
| Asia & Oceania Championships | November 11–21, 2019 | Kunming |
5 | Kim Se-hee (KOR) Natsumi Tomonaga (JPN) Alise Fakhrutdinova (UZB) Zhang Mingyu (CHN) Yelena Potapenko (KAZ) |
| 1 |  Rebecca Jamieson (NZL) Marina Carrier (AUS) | |||
| 2020 UIPM World Championships | June 7–13, 2021 | Cairo |
3 | |
| Pentathlon World Ranking | June 14, 2021 | — | 8 | |
| Tripartite Invitation | — | — | 2 | |
| Total | 36 | |||
Notelist
- New Zealand declined its quota spot in February 2020.[4]
References
- "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". olympic.org (press release). International Olympic Committee. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 19 April 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Modern Pentathlon" (PDF). UIPM. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- Palmer, Dan (25 July 2017). "Tokyo to host 2019 UIPM World Cup Final as Olympic test event". Inside the Games. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- Larkin, Steve (11 February 2020). "Aussie pentathlete gets Olympic selection". Southern Highland News. Retrieved 16 February 2020.