The
Women's pentathlon
The pentathlon or women's pentathlon is a combined track and field event in which each woman competes in five separate events over one day (formerly two days). The distance or time for each event is converted to points via scoring tables, with t ...
competition at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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in
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was held on 25–26 July. After four of the five events, with only the 200 metres remaining, the top 8 of the 19 competitors were separated by less than 100 points:
* Nadiya Tkachenko - 3788
* Lyudmila Popovskaya - 3772
* Burglinde Pollak - 3768
* Diane Jones - 3764
* Christine Laser - 3757
* Margit Papp - 3726
* Siegrun Siegl - 3718
* Jane Frederick - 3693
All of the leaders were matched against each other in the final heat. After the point scoring was calculated, Siegl and Laser had finished =1st with 4745 points, with Pollak 3rd with 4740 points.
Siegl was awarded the gold medal on the basis of having scored more points than Laser in three of the five events (100 metres hurdles, long jump and 200 metres).
Had Pollak run the 200 metres in 23.58 instead of 23.64, then she would have won the gold medal. While Siegl jumped from seventh to first in one event, Tkachenko had the misfortune of dropping from first to fifth in less than 25 seconds. She would go on to lead the Soviet podium sweep four years later in Moscow.
Results
References
External links
Official report1976 Summer Olympics – Women's pentathlon Highlights
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Pentathlon
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
1976 in women's athletics
Women's events at the 1976 Summer Olympics