Alexander Parygin

Alexander Parygin
Personal information
Born 25 April 1973 (1973-04-25) (age 45)
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Modern pentathlon
Club Modern Pentathlon Victoria
Medal record
Modern pentathlon
Representing  Kazakhstan
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Individual
Asian Games
1994 Hiroshima Team
1994 Hiroshima Individual

Alexander "Alex" Parygin (born 25 April 1973) is a Kazakh-Australian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he won the individual gold medal.[1][2]

He competed for Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and finished 27th overall. He initially qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but his qualification was called into question by the British team for failing to meet the minimum amount of points required to be eligible (as his qualification took place at the Oceanian Championship in Tokyo, where the show jumping segment was called off after an outbreak of equine flu;[3] however, the Australian Olympic Committee initially insisted he had met the requirements),[4] and was eventually revoked by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).[3] Alex now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

References

  1. ↑ "1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Modern Pentathlon" Archived 2008-08-22 at the Wayback Machine. databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 15, 2008)
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Aleksandr "Alex" Parygin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  3. 1 2 "Australian Alex Parygin knocked off Olympic team". The China Post. July 2, 2008. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Controversy over Aust pentathlete's Olympic ditching". Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC). July 2, 2008. Retrieved August 9, 2012.


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