the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants
A pentathlon is an athletics competition in which each person must compete in five different events. a sports event involving five different sports (penta- ( PENTA-) + athlon ). Athletic contest entailing five distinct types of competitions. In the ancient Olympic Games, the pentathlon included a sprint, the long jump, discus throw, javelin throw, and a wrestling match. A modified version (with a medium-distance race substituted for the wrestling match) was included in the revived Olympic Games (1912-24). The modern, or military, pentathlon, included in the Olympics from 1912 and made a team event in 1952, includes an equestrian steeplechase, fencing, pistol shooting, a freestyle swim, and a cross-country run. Women's pentathlon competition (shot put, high jump, hurdling race, sprint, and long jump) was replaced in 1981 by the heptathlon
In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run
A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear
An ancient athletics discipline, featuring stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
An athletic contest in which each participant competes in five events: running, swimming, horseback riding, fencing, and pistol shooting. a sports competition that involves running, swimming, riding horses, fencing, and shooting guns