How is the Olympic competition structured?
It’s done in a day, which is a bit of fun. The events are spread out with an hour off in between each of them. It starts off at about 8.30 am with the shooting, which is a 20-shot match with an air pistol over a 10 metre range. Then there’s the fencing, which is a one-hit competition with each of the other 35 competitors. Then you swim 200 metres freestyle in the pool, and complete a 14-obstacle course on a randomly allocated horse. The final event, a 3 kilometre cross-country run, is staggered depending on your points in the other four events. Four pentathlon points get you one running second. Whoever crosses the line first wins the pentathlon.
