Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics


The modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics was represented by two events : 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:
Boris Onischenko was ejected from the competition during the fencing event after it was discovered he had wired his epée with a concealed push button circuit breaker that enabled him to register a hit at any time. Onischenko's results were deleted from the records, and he was spirited away from the Olympic Village almost immediately, never competing in events outside the USSR again. The Soviet Union team was forced to scratch from the competition after the ejection of Boris Onischenko. The other Soviet team members, Pavel Lednev and Boris Mosolov, were allowed to continue individually, but it was ruled their results received no score in the team competition.

Participating nations

A total of 47 athletes from 17 nations competed at the Montreal Games:

Medal table