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What is a pentathlon?

What is a pentathlon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
  2. (athletics) Modern pentathlon.
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He would recover, though, and go on to win the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 1996 Olympics.
After winning the pentathlon at the Olympic Games, probably in 444 BC, he went on to write one of the first training manuals.
If pentathlon loses its Olympic status, its supporters argue, the sport will wither and die.
When the championships re-crossed the Atlantic to Canada in 1993 the heptathlon and pentathlon were added to the list of events.
They show particular eminence in fencing, wrestling, pentathlon, swimming and canoeing.
Thorpe was the sensation of the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and won the pentathlon and decathlon gold medals by huge margins.

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