Alexander Parygin

Alexander Parygin

Personal information
Born	25 April 1973 (age 43) Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Modern pentathlon
Club	Modern Pentathlon Victoria
Medal record Representing  Kazakhstan Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Individual Asian Games 1994 Hiroshima Team 1994 Hiroshima Individual

Alexander 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" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 15, 2008)
2. Alex Parygin. sports-reference.com
3. "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.