Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team

Men's team modern pentathlon at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Dates	July 18–22
Competitors	42 from 14 nations
Medalists
Jim Fox Danny Nightingale Adrian Parker  Great Britain Jiri Adam Jan Bartu Bohumil Starnovský  Czechoslovakia Tamas Kancsal Tibor Maracsko Szvetiszlav Sasics  Hungary

The modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics was represented by two events (both for men): 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:

• Equestrian, held on July 18 at Bromont.
• Fencing, held on July 19 at Université de Montréal.
• Shooting, held on July 20 at L'Acadie.
• Swimming, held on July 21 at Olympic Pool.
• Cross-country, held on July 22 at Olympic Stadium and Maisonneuve Park.

Results

Rank	Nation	Athlete		Rid.	Fen.	Sho.	Swi.	Run.		Score	Team Score
	Great Britain (GBR)	Adrian Parker		1100	752	868	1240	1378		5338	15559
		Danny Nightingale		1012	814	934	1172	1309		5241
		Jim Fox		1100	690	846	1080	1264		4980
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Jan Bartu		1100	969	1044	1184	1162		5459	15451
		Bohumil Starnovský		1068	876	868	1144	1144		5100
		Jiri Adam		794	938	1088	1072	1000		4892
	Hungary (HUN)	Tamas Kancsal		866	990	956	1164	1219		5195	15395
		Tibor Maracsko		972	845	890	1204	1228		5139
		Szvetiszlav Sasics		934	938	912	1160	1117		5061
4	Poland (POL)	Janusz Pyciak-Peciak		1066	969	1044	1164	1318		5561	15343
		Zbigniew Pacelt		1100	535	890	1308	1138		4971
		Krzysztof Trybusiewicz		1004	628	978	1072	1129		4811
5	United States (USA)	John Fitzgerald		1036	969	1000	1232	1066		5303	15285
		Michael Burley		1068	752	692	1212	1327		5051
		Robert Nieman		1036	814	604	1324	1153		4931
6	Italy (ITA)	Daniele Masala		1090	907	1066	1244	1201		5508	15031
		Pier Paolo Cristofori		1100	721	780	1128	1207		4936
		Mario Medda		1004	628	824	1056	1075		4587
7	Finland (FIN)	Risto Hurme		1100	907	868	1088	1246		5209	15000
		Jussi Pelli		1004	752	956	1020	1192		4924
		Heikki Hulkkonen		690	938	978	1120	1141		4867
8	Sweden (SWE)	Hans Lager		1100	721	758	1244	1225		5048	14946
		Bengt Lager		1068	721	802	1120	1252		4963
		Gunnar Jacobson		1100	876	780	1104	1075		4935
9	France (FRA)	Alain Cortes		1036	814	956	1108	1249		5163	14834
		Claude Guiguet		1100	721	1000	924	1123		4868
		Michel Gueguen		1100	690	714	1104	1195		4803
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	Velko Bratanov		1064	876	1000	980	1147		5067	14824
		Stoyan Zlatev		1036	814	1000	1140	1048		5038
		Nikolai Nikolov		956	659	934	1068	1102		4719
11	West Germany (FRG)	Walter Esser		1100	783	978	1112	1120		5093	14429
		Gerhard Werner		972	690	824	1196	1129		4811
		Wolfgang Köpcke		940	566	824	1084	1111		4525
12	Japan (JPN)	Shoji Uchida		1068	814	692	1084	1270		4928	14234
		Akira Kubo		1036	814	802	904	1126		4682
		Hiroyuki Kawazoe		1068	721	956	840	1039		4624
13	Canada (CAN)	John Hawes		1068	845	230	1272	1108		4523	12772
		George Skene		1100	504	274	1176	1102		4156
		Jack Alexander		478	442	692	1268	1213		4093

The  Soviet Union (URS) were forced to scratch from the competition after team member Boris Onischenko was ejected from the competition during the fencing event after it was discovered he had wired his épée with a concealed push button circuit breaker that enabled him to register a hit at any time.

The other Soviet team members, Pavel Lednev and Boris Mosolov, were allowed to continue individually, but since three athletes are required to compete in a team event, it was ruled their results would receive no score in the team competition.

External links

• Official Olympic Report