The Military Pentathlon is a multi-sport event.

History of the Military Pentathlon

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The Modern pentathlon was originally designed to include the ideal skills of a soldier of the time. By the second world war, some of those skills (fencing and horse riding) were irrelevant to the modern soldier.

In 1946 a French Officer, Captain Henri Debrus (later promoted Colonel and President of the CISM) conceived the idea of organising a sports competition reserved exclusively for the army. It was during discussions held at Frankfurt/Main which led to the setting up of the Allied Forces Sports Council, that his attention was drawn to an original military physical training technique used, at that time, by the Netherlands Airborne Units. After being dropped over a given zone, parachutists had to travel a distance of twenty kilometres from the dropping point, crossing over a number of obstacles and performing combat operations (small arms fire and grenade throwing).

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