Modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's individual

Men's individual modern pentathlon at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Dates	July 20–24
Competitors	43 from 17 nations
Medalists
Anatoly Starostin  Soviet Union Tamás Szombathelyi  Hungary Pavel Lednev  Soviet Union

The modern pentathlon at the 1980 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 which were held in 4 venues:

1. Equestrian held on July 20 at the Trade Unions Equestrian Centre situated in the Bitsa forest park (southern part of Moscow)
2. Fencing held on July 21 at the Sports Palace of the Central Sports Club of the Army (south-western part of Moscow)
3. Shooting held on July 22 at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Mytishchi (south-eastern part of Moscow)
4. Swimming held on July 23 at the Swimming Pool of the Olympiski Sports Complex (central part of Moscow)
5. Cross-country held on July 24 at the Trade Unions Equestrian Centre

Results

Rank	Athlete		Rid.	Fen.	Sho.	Swi.	Run.		Score
	Anatoly Starostin (URS)		1068	1000	1110	1216	1174		5568
	Tamás Szombathelyi (HUN)		1100	1026	1088	1144	1144		5502
	Pavel Lednev (URS)		1026	1026	1022	1104	1204		5382
4	Svante Rasmuson (SWE)		936	922	1000	1332	1183		5373
5	Tibor Maracskó (HUN)		980	964	956	1208	1171		5279
6	Janusz Pyciak-Peciak (POL)		1070	844	978	1172	1204		5268
7	Lennart Pettersson (SWE)		1050	922	1088	1156	1027		5243
8	Milan Kadlec (TCH)		1084	792	1088	1088	1177		5229
9	George Horvath (SWE)		1036	870	1132	1152	1039		5229
10	Heikki Hulkkonen (FIN)		980	1000	1066	1100	1081		5227
11	Jan Olesiński (POL)		1038	818	978	1160	1225		5219
12	Paul Four (FRA)		1018	922	1066	1244	946		5196
13	Ivar Sisniega (MEX)		1058	766	912	1348	1102		5186
14	Evegeny Lipeev (URS)		1100	870	824	1232	1150		5176
15	Robert Nightingale (GBR)		950	766	1000	1212	1240		5168
16	Jan Bártů (TCH)		970	766	1066	1260	1096		5158
17	Pier Paolo Cristofori (ITA)		1050	818	934	1120	1234		5156
18	Marek Bajan (POL)		1100	844	890	1244	1069		5147
19	László Horváth (HUN)		1008	1052	956	1076	1039		5131
20	Joël Bouzou (FRA)		962	922	1044	1080	1099		5107
21	Peter Whiteside (GBR)		1010	766	1000	1228	1081		5085
22	Dumitru Spîrlea (ROU)		1100	844	912	1184	1018		5058
23	Alain Cortes (FRA)		1090	756	978	1140	1078		5042
24	Jussi Pelli (FIN)		980	740	1088	1116	1108		5032
25	Federico Galera (ESP)		1008	844	1022	1100	1027		5001
26	Bohumil Starnovský (TCH)		1100	740	890	1156	1066		4952
27	Gyula Laszlo Câllovits (ROU)		954	766	1022	1088	1105		4935
28	Simeon Monev (BUL)		1010	636	1088	1148	1033		4915
29	José Serrano (ESP)		1010	714	890	1252	1021		4887
30	Nikolai Nikolov (BUL)		1004	740	1066	1028	994		4832
31	Pekka Santanen (FIN)		891	740	978	1168	1051		4828
32	Manuel Montesinos (ESP)		1076	818	890	1120	907		4811
33	Nigel Clark (GBR)		986	714	824	1141	1141		4809
34	Borislav Batikov (BUL)		978	740	934	1164	982		4798
35	Alexander Topay (AUT)		1070	662	1000	1112	940		4784
36	Jens Lohmann (MEX)		1054	662	978	1152	910		4747
37	Robert Barrie (AUS)		1062	610	846	1124	1054		4696
38	Helmut Wieser (AUT)		1090	662	978	996	856		4582
39	Jerome Hartigan (IRL)		1070	506	934	912	1135		4557
40	Brian Newth (NZL)		1018	532	846	1048	1042		4486
41	Cezar Mihai Râducanu (ROU)		1010	652	516	1216	1003		4397
42	Sackville Currie (IRL)		870	558	780	1052	1117		4377
43	Mark Hartigan (IRL)		884	558	890	936	1093		4361

External links

• Official Olympic Report