Jun Woong-tae, Seo Chang-wan finish 6th, 7th in men’s modern pentathlon

Jun Woong-tae, right, and Seo Chang-wan of South Korea react to their sixth-place and seventh-place finishes in the men's modern pentathlon final at the Paris Olympics at Chateau de Versailles in Versailles, France, on Aug. 10. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

The 2021 bronze medalist Jun Woong-tae finished sixth in the men’s modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, while his South Korean teammate Seo Chang-wan was right behind him in seventh.

Jun was in a bronze medal position in the late stages before being passed by the eventual bronze medalist, Giorgio Malan of Italy.

At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Jun won bronze to become the first South Korean to win a modern pentathlon medal, but he came up short in a bid for his second straight medal.

Seo cracked the top 10 in his Olympic debut.

Ahmed Elgendy of Egypt took the gold medal, and Taishu Sato of Japan got the silver medal.

With the famed Chateau de Versailles in the backdrop, just west of Paris, athletes took their points in the fencing ranking round from Thursday into the final. Jun had 235 points then, the fourth-highest total.

The day began with equestrian show jumping, with athletes starting at 300 points and getting deductions for faults, refusals and time violations.

Jun finished with 287 points and moved to 522 total points.

In the fencing bonus round, an elimination 바카라사이트 tournament with 30-second bouts, fencers were seeded by their ranking round results. The winner of each bout earned two points and stayed on to face the next athlete. The victory for the final bout was worth four points.

Jun picked up six huge points there, winning his first two bouts and then beating Elgendy in the final bout.

The athlete moved on to the 200-meter freestyle swimming, where a time of 2:30 was worth 250 points. One point was added for every 0.5 second faster than the target, and one point was deducted for every 0.5 second slower than the target.

Jun ranked seventh overall in swimming with a time of 1:59.41, good for 312 points

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