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Feyerabend, Mountain West’s reigning indoor pentathlon champion, won four of five events en route to a personal best of 4,270 points and a 206-point victory.
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for pentathlon and decathlon.
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Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Each group tied their legs together and participated in a six-legged pentathlon.
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Esther Kang,
People.com,
26 June 2025
About 10,000 military athletes from over 100 countries will participate in 25 sports, including traditional games such as archery, boxing and diving, as well as military competitions like aeronautical pentathlon and naval pentathlon.
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Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2025
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for pentathlon and decathlon.
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Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Each group tied their legs together and participated in a six-legged pentathlon.
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Esther Kang,
People.com,
26 June 2025
About 10,000 military athletes from over 100 countries will participate in 25 sports, including traditional games such as archery, boxing and diving, as well as military competitions like aeronautical pentathlon and naval pentathlon.
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Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pentathlon
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The footballer, who fans can currently watch playing for Norway in the World Cup, was born in 2000 in Leeds, England, to two Norwegian star athletes (Leeds United player Alfie Haaland and former women’s heptathlon athlete Gry Marita Braut).
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Sofia Cosculluela finished with 6,182 points in the heptathlon to win Washington's first championship in the event.
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Former Northwest Nazarene athlete Steven Schmidt finished 13th in the men’s decathlon for Oklahoma State, scoring 7,479 points.
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In the only men's event of the day, BYU’s Ben Barton won the decathlon crown with 8,169 points — just nine more than Louisville’s Kenneth Byrd.
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Toyota supported Andrea Eskau, the German Paralympic skier who won gold in the 6km biathlon and silver in the 5km cross-country at the 2014 Sochi Games, at age 42.
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Zaino will also compete in the biathlon (skiing and shooting).
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To shopping editors, Amazon’s Prime Day events are the bi-annual triathlon of capitalism.
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Similarly, a parent with young children may manage nonstop activities that keep them on their toes, and an athlete training for a triathlon is used to activities that demand dedication and consistency.
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Mbappe, whose eight goals led the tournament four years ago, already has 16 World Cup goals for his career, tied for second all-time.
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This is where the true tournament of the best tournament in the world begins — where the safety nets are officially removed, where every kick is vital, and every blade of grass is earned.
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Veteran manager Hervé Renard was in Senegal watching the World Cup on TV when he was picked, in the thick of the tourney, to coach the Tunisians’ next two matches.
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The Japanese gave us one of the tourney’s best matches to date — their 2-2 split with the Netherlands featured four second-half scores and Daichi Kamada’s dramatic equalizer in the 89th minute.
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The biggest score of the World Cup competition may be happening off the pitch.
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For Iraq, a victory would be its first in World Cup competition while Senegal, a quarterfinalist in 2002, would like to get a win for Sadio Mane, one of Africa’s most iconic players, who may be playing in his final World Cup.
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“Pentathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pentathlon. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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