World record-holder Alexander Lesun of Russia won the men's modern pentathlon gold medal at the Rio Olympics on Saturday Aug 20,2016
Russia's Alexaner Lesun, denied a medal in London when he was pushed out of the top three in the closing running-shooting combined phase, got off to a hot start in Rio with an Olympic record 268 points in the fencing phase on Friday.
By completion of the swimming, fencing, show jumping and running/shooting he had amassed an Olympic record total of 1,479 points.
"I just did my job," he said of keeping his nose in front after his stellar fencing effort.
Ukraine's Pavlo Tymoshchenko earned silver with 1,472 and bronze went to Mexico's Ismael Hernandez on 1,468.
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