London 2012 Olympics: David Svoboda stays ahead for pentathlon gold

CZECH David Svoboda won gold in the men’s modern pentathlon as British duo Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale could only finish tenth and 13th.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Aug 2012, 02:16 BST

The home pair went into the final event, the combined run and shoot, in the top ten but they could not make up ground on the leaders in front of a huge crowd at Greenwich Park.

Svoboda, the 2010 European champion, went into the combined event in first place, having matched the Olympic record in the fencing event, and overhauled China’s Cao Zhongrong on the final one-kilometre run while Adam Marosi of Hungary won bronze.

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Woodbridge’s tenth place matched the finish of Weale in Beijing, which was the best by a British man for 16 years.

RESULTS

David Svoboda (Cze) 5928 pts (MPOR), 2 Zhongrong Cao (Chn) 5904, 3 Adam Marosi (Hun) 5836, 4 Aleksander Lesun (Rus) 5764, 5 Steffen Gebhardt (Ger) 5756, 6 Thomas Daniel (Aut) 5744, 7 Andrei Moiseev (Rus) 5736, 8 Justinas Kinderis (Ltu) 5732, 9 Riccardo De Luca (Ita) 5720, 10 Nicholas Woodbridge (Gbr) 5716, 11 Jinhwa Jung (Kor) 5676, 12 Robert Kasza (Hun) 5676, 13 Samuel Weale (Gbr) 5664, 14 Oscar Soto (Mex) 5656, 15 Ondrej Polivka (Cze) 5652, 16 Stanislau Zhurauliou (Blr) 5648, 17 Christopher Patte (Fra) 5620, 18 Esteban Bustos (Chi) 5604, 19 Deniss Cerkovskis (Lat) 5576, 20 Nicola Benedetti (Ita) 5568.